Roman Wallner

Roman Wallner (born February 4, 1982 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian soccer player, currently playing for LASK Linz.

Career

Domestic

Wallner began Roman Wallner career with hometown SK Sturm Graz in 1998. In the following year Roman Wallner moved to SK Rapid Wien, where Roman Wallner would have Roman Wallner most successful years, appearing in over 100 matches and scoring 42 goals over five seasons with the club. Roman Wallner then spent one year spells at German language club Hannover 96 and VfB Admira Wacker Mödling before signing with FK Austria Wien in 2005. Roman Wallner left the club in 2007.

At the beginning of the 2007-2008 season, Wallner signed a 1 year contract including the option of a 2nd year with Scottish Premier League outfit Falkirk F.C.

In November 2007, Roman signed for Scottish First Division Hamilton Academical on loan from Falkirk. Roman Wallner returned to Falkirk the following month.

In January 2008, Roman Wallner travelled to Greece where Roman Wallner was on trial for the Greek Cup 2006-07 winners Larissa F.C. In the same month Falkirk announced that Wallner had been released from Roman Wallner contract by mutual consent. In late January, Roman Wallner signed with Apollon Kalamarias.

On February 3 2008, Apollon Kalamarias' player Barkoglou scored a last minute goal in a match against Olympiacos F.C. which ended 1-0 to Apollon. Olympiakos appealed against Wallner's appearance in the match, because according to FIFA rules a player could play for no more than two teams per season (having already played for Falkirk F.C and Hamilton Academical), because of this Apollon lost the game in cards 0-3 and had 1 point deducted. The case went to the jurisdiction of Court of Arbitration for Sport. The appeal for provisional measures was declined. After the end of the Greek Superleague, Apollon Kalamarias was relegated and the deducted points would be inefficient to keeo the clear of relegation. Therefore, the appeal against the first decision was withdrawn. Olympiakos won the title leading the table with runners-up AEK Athens trailing by only two points. This fact, along with the claims by the AEK chairman Demis Nikolaidis and footballers like Rivaldo, Traianos Dellas and Nikos Lyberopoulos that the Greek Football Association was responsible for this outcome, left the AEK fans with a taste of unjustice.
By then, Roman Wallner was one of the most identifiable and recnognisable footballers in Greece and the controversy about Roman Wallner case will be remembered by all the Greek football fans in the years to come.

International

Roman Wallner made Roman Wallner debut for Austria national football team in an April 2001 World Cup qualification match against Liechtenstein national football team and has earned 23 caps, scoring 5 goals. Roman Wallner last international was a September 2006 friendly match against Venezuela national football team.

Honours

- Austrian Football Bundesliga (1):
- - 2006
- Austrian Cup (2):
- - 2006, 2007