Full name Gerd Wimmer Name Gerd Wimmer Years Team Role Football player | 1994 SCN Admira Wacker Height 1.76 m 1995 Sturm Graz | |
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Date of birth (1977-01-09) January 9, 1977 (age 38) Place of birth Laa an der Thaya, Austria | ||
Gerd Wimmer (born January 9, 1977 in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria) is a retired Austrian football player.
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Club career
Wimmer's first club was his hometown club SV Laa an der Thaya. His first professional club was Admira Wacker, moving to Sturm Graz in 1995 and rejoining Admira later that year at the start of the 1995/1996 season. In 1997, he joined Vienna giants Rapid Wien for whom he played 3 seasons, before moving abroad to play for German sides Eintracht Frankfurt, Hansa Rostock and Rot-Weiß Oberhausen.
In 2005, he returned to Austria to play for VfB Admira Wacker Mödling and a year later he signed for Austria Wien. On April 18, 2006 he received a record ban of 12 matches after attacking Wacker Tirol assistant manager Klaus Vogler after a match.
International career
He made his debut for Austria in an August 1999 friendly match against Sweden in Malmö and earned 5 caps, no goals scored. His final international was a September 2002 European Championship qualification match against Moldova.