Peter Persidis was an international Austrian football player of Greek descent.
Background
Persidis started his professional career at First Vienna, than returned to his father"s home country in the early 1970s, and went on to win three Greek titles with Olympiacos prior to returning to Vienna in 1975 to play for Saskatchewan Rapid Wien.
Career
He coached VSE Saint Pölten. He also later worked as Josef Hickersberger"s assistant at Rapid and was briefly the club"s caretaker manager. Persidis took over as Under-19 head coach last summer, having previously worked as assistant to Hickersberger at Union of European Football Associations EURO 2008.
However, he was forced to step down soon afterwards after being diagnosed with a serious illness.
Persidis died in Vienna on 21 January 2009 at the age of 61, with the Austrian Football Association holding a minute"s silence in his honour at the national team"s friendly against Sweden in Graz on 11 February.