Rafael Pollack

Rafael Pollack (born 28 October 1988) is a retired Austrian footballer.^[1]

Rafael Pollack

Personal information
Date of birth	(1988-10-28) 28 October 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Tulln, Austria
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Admira Wacker (assistant)
Youth career
1996–1998	SV Königstetten
1998–2003	FC Tulln
2003–2005	BW Hollabrunn
2005–2006	Admira Wacker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2007	Admira Wacker	11	(0)
2007	Würmla	13	(4)
2008–2009	NAC Breda	0	(0)
2009–2010	VfB Lübeck	3	(0)
2010	FAC	13	(5)
2010–2011	Waidhofen/Ybbs	10	(1)
2011–2012	FC Tulln	13	(8)
2012	FC Mistelbach	13	(2)
2012–2014	FC Ober-Grafendorf	50	(12)
2014–2017	Wiener SK	70	(18)
2017–2018	ASK Ebreichsdorf	23	(4)
2018–2020	Großweikersdorf SV	8	(6)
2021	Atzenbrugg/H. USV	0	(0)
Managerial career
2014–2015	Wiener SK (assistant)
2018	Rapid Wien (athletic coach)
2019	Rapid Wien II (athletic coach)
2021	Atzenbrugg/H. USV
2021–2022	FCM Traiskirchen (assistant)
2022	SV Horn (assistant)
2022–	Admira Wacker (assistant)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Coaching career

In the 2014-15 season, while playing for Wiener SK, Pollack also worked as a youth coach at the club. Pollack continued as an active player for a few years, before he was hired as an athletic coach at SK Rapid Wien under the staff of Goran Djuricin in the summer 2018.^[2] From the new year 2019, he was instead moved to the clubs reserve team backroom staff.^[3]

In December 2020, Pollack was appointed player-manager at USV Atzenbrugg-Heiligeneich at the age of 32.^[4] He left the position in November 2021, as he accepted a job offer from FCM Traiskirchen, becoming the clubs new assistant manager under head coach Zeljko Radovic, who he formerly worked together with at Rapid Wien.^[5] Radovic and his staff, including Pollack, was fired in May 2022.

In June 2022, Pollack joined SV Horn as assistant manager under his former VfB Lübeck-teammate, Rolf Landerl.^[6] On 20 September 2022, Pollack and Landerl resigned from their positions.^[7] On 6 November 2022, the duo landed a new job at Admira Wacker.^[8]