Alfred Riedl

Club career

Riedl first played for Austria Wien from 1967 to 1972, before leaving Austria to play for the Belgian club Sint-Truiden at the age of 22. After he played eight seasons in the Belgian First Division (two with Sint-Truiden, two with Royal Antwerp and four with Standard Liège), Riedl enjoyed a brief spell at FC Metz in France. He came back to Austria after a single season there, to play for Grazer AK, and then at Wiener Sportclub and VfB Admira Wacker Mödling.

International career

Riedl was capped four times for the Austria national football team, making his debut in April 1975 against Hungary.

As a manager, Riedl coached Olympique Khouribga (Morocco, 1993–94), Al-Zamalek (Egypt, 1994–95), Al Salmiya (Kuwait, 2001–03), and many national teams, including Austria (1990–92), Liechtenstein (1997–98), Palestine (2004–05), Vietnam (1998–2001, 2003–04, 2005–07), and Laos (2009–10). In the 2007 AFC Asian Cup, he coached Vietnam to a 2–0 victory over UAE and help the team to get to the quarterfinal for the first time in history. Unfortunately, in late 2007, after the team's disappointing performance in the SEA Games 2007 competition, he was fired and replaced by the Portuguese coach Henrique Calisto. In October 2008, he returned to Vietnam to coach Hải Phòng. However, after only three matches with poor performance, he was dismissed. On 9 July 2009, he signed a contract as head coach of Laos, the contract was for two years.

Indonesia

On 4 May 2010, Riedl was named the new coach of Indonesia's national and under-23 sides. He led the Indonesian national team to the 2010 AFF Suzuki Final but lost to Malaysia on 4–2 aggregate score. Then suddenly, on 13 July 2011, he lost his job because of a "contract dispute", after a highly publicized political power struggle within the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI), and was replaced by Wim Rijsbergen. After a return to Laos as technical director and Belgian club Visé as head of youth development, Riedl was reappointed as Indonesia national team head coach in December 2013, signing a three-year contract. His contract was…

Player

Austria Wien

Austrian Football Championship: 1968–69, 1969–70 Austrian Cup: 1970–71 Grazer AK

Austrian Cup: 1980–81 Individual

Austrian Football Championship top scorer: 1971–72 Belgian First Division top scorer: 1972–73, 1974–75

Manager

Olympique Club de Khouribga (Morocco)

Moroccan Cup runner-up: 1994 Zamalek SC

Egyptian Confederation Cup: 1995 Vietnam

AFF Championship runner-up: 1998 Southeast Asian Games runner-up: 1999 King's Cup runner-up: 2006 Vietnam Olympic

Southeast Asian Games runner-up: 2003, 2005 Indonesia

AFF Championship runner-up: 2010, 2016