Ollie Valentine has signed with FC Pinzgau in the Austrian 3rd Tier, managed by Christian Ziege.
Dream come true to have signed my first professional contract @FCPSen
Big thanks to the team @STAGmanagement for making this happen. https://t.co/stjuHybze0— Ollie Valentine (@OllieVa66719367) February 6, 2020
Congrats to Valentine. Where was he after he left Weenix? Worthy of his own thread?
Austrian 3rd tier won't be a great standard with 5 regional leagues, but other guys with threads are probably playing at a similar level.
Pinzgau finished 2nd in their pre Xmas league, 13 points ahead of the team in 3rd, with top two teams "going through to the next round" - a new league of only 6 teams. The winner of this league earns to right to go up to Liga 2. Sounds like some complicated promotion playoff system. Comp restarts in March.
Christian Ziege is a blast from the past. At Brough when I lived in the UK. To show the football world can be small, he spent 12 months as coach of Unterhaching in Liga 3 when Marinovic was there. Actually it looks like he signed big Stef to Unterhaching.