Christian Ilzer

Christian Ilzer (born 21 October 1977) is a former Austrian football player and now manager of Sturm Graz.
Career.
He started his career with USK Raiffeisen Puch. Soon his career was stopped by three cruciate ligament injuries. He started managing the U17 squad of Puch and in addition to his job as an electronics technician a second education as a coach. 2006 and 2007 he was player-manager of USK Raiffeisen Puch.
2007 he became assistant coach of TSV Hartberg under Bruno Friesenbichler. In September 2011 he became fitness manager of the Austrian U19 national team and 2012–13 season also was the manager of SC Weiz. After another season as asssistance coach with Hartberg he went on to SC Wiener Neustadt in the same position. After coach Heimo Pfeifenberger was fired he became caretaker of the club for one match. After the season he left Wiener Neustadt and became coach of TSV Hartberg. After the season he left and became assistance coach of Wolfsberger AC under Heimo Pfeifenberger. In the 2019-20 season he was coach of FK Austria Wien but at the end he was fired and became coach of SK Sturm Graz.