Career
After six years he moved to Germany to play for 1. Football Club Nürnberg with whom he lost the German Cup Final in 1982, Eintracht Braunschweig and 1. Football Club Saarbrücken. He retired in 1988 but curiously made a comeback four years later with Nürnberg where he had been youth team coach.
After his second retirement, he became youth coach again at Nürnberg and Greuther Fürth.
He earned 15 caps for the Austria national football team between 1978 and 1982 and played in the 1982, where he scored a goal in the second round match against Northern Ireland.