“Man of millions” – how Hartberg’s Pfeifer almost ended up at Rapid

The last few weeks have also been exciting for Hartberg defender Manuel Pfeifer. It was not easy for Markus Schopp, of all people, his great supporter (coach), to leave the club, the coach who brought him from Lafnitz to Hartberg and molded him into a Bundesliga player. “I owe an incredible amount to Markus Schopp. But I’m also professional enough to take it all in stride. We have a really good new coach in Manfred Schmid. His new impulses also had an immediate impact on us. We all played freely and had fun playing soccer,” says Pfeifer, who played all but one game for Hartberg (where he was sick).