Ralf Rangnick’s remarkable journey from Manchester United mess to hero of Austria
Ralf Rangnick reacts after his Austrian team won to top their group at Euro 2024
November 20, 2022. Austria had just beaten the European champions Italy at the Ernst-Happel Stadium, less than seven months into Ralf Rangnick’s reign, and their German coach and his jubilant players and staff were in full voice on the bus on the way back to the team hotel.
Rainhard Fendrich’s “I am from Austria”, the country’s unofficial national anthem, was belted out, as was anything by the much loved Austrian pop and schlager singer DJ Otzi. This was one party no one wanted to end and so Rangnick, sensing as much as the hotel loomed into view, made a beeline for the driver and instructed him to circle Vienna for another 45 minutes.
