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301st Wiener Derby : Another Goalless Draw

===================================================== The cross-town rivalry between FK AUSTRIA VIENNA and SK RAPID VIENNA, the third-most contested intra-city derby on the planet known as Earth, ended in a draw for the third consecutive time last Sunday as the Violets and the Green-Whites … Continue reading

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300th Vienna Derby Is A Dead Heat For FK Austria & SK Rapid

======================================================== SK Rapid Vienna’s German captain STEFFEN HOFMANN (right), the one-time Bayern Munich and TSV 1860 Munich midfielder who has now made 288 appearances while scoring 77 goals for die Gruen-Weissen in the Austrian Bundesliga, looks to pull away from … Continue reading

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299th Vienna Derby Ends In Draw

================================================================ SK Rapid Vienna’s attacking midfielder and German club captain STEFFEN HOFMANN (right), the former Bayern Munich youth team product who first started playing with die Gruen-Weissen in the summer of 2002, looks to tackle the ball away from advancing … Continue reading

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FK Austria Race Past SK Rapid In 298th Vienna Derby

===================================================== SK Rapid Vienna’s Austria international defender THOMAS SCHRAMMEL (left), a summer signing by die Gruen-Weissen from SV Ried, heads the ball away as veteran FK Austria Vienna striker ROLAND LINZ, who has been capped 38 times while scoring eight … Continue reading

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FK Austria, SK Rapid Will Duel In 296th Wiener Stadt Derby

======================================================== Rapid Vienna defender TANJU KAYHAN (left) goes down with the challenge from FK Austria Vienna’s Austria international midfielder ZLATKO JUNUZOVIC, the second-leading scorer with seven Bundesliga goals for die Veilchen this season, during the 295th Wiener Stadt Derby this … Continue reading

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Ernst Happel – Austrian Hero

======================================================== Austria defender ERNST HAPPEL of SK Rapid Vienna (left) sticks in a boot to tackle the ball away from an attacking player of host nation Switzerland during the 1954 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match at the Stade Olympique de … Continue reading

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Holiday Viennese Stadia Tour

======================================================== WIENER STAATSOPER (likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.com photo) ======================================================== Perhaps it is all rather appropriate, then, to have a stadium tour of this time of year in the Austrian capital city of VIENNA (WIEN). One of the outstanding features of the Holiday Season … Continue reading

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Holiday Viennese Stadia Tour – Scheduled Stops

======================================================== (Martin Ortner photo) ======================================================== All aboard…the schedule of stops for the Holiday Viennese Stadia Tour hosted by the blog will be as follows : ERNST HAPPEL STADION — opened 1931 — Austria national team — capacity 53,008 (former Praterstadion) … Continue reading

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JK Besiktas Istanbul 2 – SK Rapid Vienna 0

======================================================== Brazilian midfielder RODRIGO TABATA of JK Besiktas Istanbul is caught in between the SK Rapid Vienna pair of Norway international defender RAGNVALD SOMA (22) and Austria international midfielder STEFAN KULOVITS and loses the ball at the Fiyapi Inonu Stadyumu … Continue reading

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Hans Krankl – Huetteldorfer Hero

======================================================== Under supervision of the match officials, FC Everton defender KEVIN RATCLIFFE, who earned 59 caps for Wales over the course of his career, exchanges team pennants with aging Austria two-time World Cup striker HANS KRANKL (9) of SK Rapid … Continue reading

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