Christian Mayrleb (born 8 June 1972) is an Austrian retired professional

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who is employed as the manager of Austrian side

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Club career

Born in

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the List of cities and towns in Austria, eighth largest city in Aus ...

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, Mayrleb started his professional career at Second Division side Stahl Linz and

SV Ried SV Ried, commonly known as SV Guntamatic Ried for sponsorship reasons, is an Austrian association football club based in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. The team plays its home matches at Josko Arena, a stadium with a capacity of 7,680. The t ...

before joining

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outfit Admira/Wacker at the start of the 1994–95 season. He then played for FC Tirol Innsbruck where he was snapped up by English

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club

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, only to return to Austria after half a season on the subs' bench. He moved to Vienna club Austria Vienna for a prolific four years before moving on to play for SV Pasching, Red Bull Salzburg and ending up in

Linz Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Repub ...

again with

LASK Linz Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK (), or Linzer ASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundes ...

. In November 2006 Mayrleb failed a drug test but was cleared by a League disciplinary panel because no evidence was found he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.

International career

Mayrleb made his debut for the Austria national team in an August 1998 friendly match against

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and came on as a substitute in his first six matches for the national team. He scored his first goal two months after his debut game. He earned 29 caps, scoring six goals. His last international was a September 2005 World Cup qualification match against

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Honours

Individual *

top scorer: 2004–05

References

External links

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- Austria Archive * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayrleb, Christian 1972 births Living people Footballers from Wels Men's association football forwards Austrian men's footballers Austrian expatriate men's footballers Austria men's international footballers SV Ried players Admira Wacker players FC Tirol Innsbruck players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. players FK Austria Wien players FC Red Bull Salzburg players LASK players FC Juniors OÖ players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Premier League players Expatriate men's footballers in England Austrian expatriate sportspeople in England