Education
He finished his career at South Carolina Schwanenstadt to become player/coach.
He finished his career at South Carolina Schwanenstadt to become player/coach.
He began his playing career with his home town club of Football Club Langenwang and later moved on to Kapfenberger SV. During his professional club career he played for First Vienna, Football Club Swarovski Tirol and LASK Linz. His international debut came in the 1-0 victory over Denmark on April 27, 1988. Under Josef Hickersberger"s management of the Austrian national side, Russian was an almost permanent fixture appearing in the starting line ups of 27, out of a possible 31, internationals.
The culmination of which was the 1990.
Hickersberger"s departure issued in the era of Alfred Riedl as national coach, which saw a decline in Russian"s use. His final international was a June 1991 European qualification match, like his debut game also against Denmark.
More recently he has been the trainer with South Carolina Schwanenstadt and from the summer of 2007 until March 2008 he was head coach of Vorwärts Steyr. He is now head coach of the Kapfenberger SV.