Gernot Jurtin

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Gernot Jurtin
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Full name Gernot Jurtin
Date of birth 1955-10-09
Place of birth    Flag of Austria Scheifling, Austria
Date of death    5 December 2006
Place of death    Flag of Austria Altenmarkt im Pongau, Austria
Playing position Winger
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1974-1987 Sturm Graz 373 (119)   
National team
1979-1983 Austria 37 (9)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Gernot Jurtin (9 October 1955 - 5 December 2006) was an Austrian football player, and a legend amongst Sturm Graz fans.

Jurtin joined Sturm Graz in the summer of 1974 under coach Karl Schlechta and immediately forced his way into the starting eleven.

One of his finest seasons came in 1980/81 when he scored 20 goals in the Bundesliga including five in a 7-0 win against Wiener Sportclub on 5 June 1981.

By the time Jurtin left Sturm Graz in 1987, he had made 373 appearances for them, scoring 119 league goals. The blond-haired number 11 was the first Graz player to break the 100-goal barrier in the league.

Between 1979 and 1983, he won 12 caps for Austria, scoring one goal. He made two appearances for them in the 1982 FIFA World Cup, against Chile and Northern Ireland.

On December 5, 2006, he died of cancer at the age of 51.


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