Rapids Training Center in the Vienna Prater now fix!

Finally it is repaired!

After many exchanges, SK Rapid announced at the Annual General Meeting that the establishment of a training center had been decided.

The missing part of the puzzle in the youth work has to be operational from 2021 and the total cost (including improvements to Hütteldorf) amounts to 25 million euros.

The venue is the Wiener Prater, where all obstacles have been overcome and the existing training facilities at Happel Stadium are complemented by new facilities adjacent to the Dusika Stadium, including functional buildings.

Prater becomes a quick focus for the training center

The area is extensive, there are short distances to the existing training grounds of Happel Stadium, a functional building, a grandstand, a boarding school and all that goes with it. A total of nine training places will be available.

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Expand the possibilities and everything under one roof

As Christoph Peschek, director general of business affairs, told more than 1,000 club members on Monday night, it was now possible to conclude an agreement with the city of Vienna for the venue.

Of the 25 million euros, about 1.5 million must be repaid each year. "Although we would have liked to finance this, SK Rapid had not been able to finance it a few years ago."

Managing Director Wirtschaft explains: "With the support of the Vienna Municipal Government, led by Mayor Michael Ludwig, we will be able to develop a vocational training infrastructure in the Prater which, in addition to 200 green and white junior players, will offer the best conditions for our professional team. " SK Rapid Acquires The functional building located in the immediate vicinity of the Ernst Happel stadium on the grounds of Kultur- und Sportverein extends from 3,300 to 6,100 square meters. The district officials have already been informed and will subsequently request the necessary authorizations from the competent authorities. Cabins, study and leisure rooms, a power station, all sports offices, a player's house, a canteen and other facilities will all be housed in the future function building, and the existing lawn will be adapted and equipped with a tribune heating system, including the roof and another built. "

Peschek adds: "In addition, there will be six other training areas available at Ernst Happel stadium, so in the future we will have training facilities of the same size as Hütteldorf's main playground and, in the final phase, the corresponding turf heaters, subject to the conclusion of the promising talks with the city of Vienna and the necessary decisions of the board of directors, we can now realize the sporting future project after the economic consolidation and the successful start of the Allianz stadium, ensuring medium and long-term sports competitiveness. "In the future, nine football pitches will be used by the SK Rapid in the Prater.

In the end, only the Prater remained

In addition, there should be a long-term guarantee that even a new national stadium will not change the Rapids training center.

Talks have been held since 14 January 2016 and for a long time, an establishment in Tullnerfeld, Lower Austria, has also been discussed. The Prater has always been preferred to ensure a good connection to a central location.

Changes also in Hütteldorf, beginning of the 2019 project

In addition to the Allianz stadium, all youth games will continue to be contested. Here again, investments will be made to improve infrastructure.

West of 1-Platz, a new lawn and grbad heating system will be installed. The roof of the grandstand will be built on the North Square, a new drainage and extension of the training area will be provided.

The total cost of the new project training center (investments included in Hütteldorf) amounts to € 25 million for SK Rapid. The project is expected to start in the summer of 2019 and the KSV Wien Energie-Zentrum will be taken over and expanded. The new training center will then be operational in the autumn of 2021.

Benefits for the ÖFB and ASK Elektra team

The ÖFB team must, due to the new conditions of the Prater, find extremely professional conditions for the preparation of international matches. The club ASK Elektra, currently playing in the Vienna City League, has also been fully involved in the project.

The club firmly anchored in the Leopoldstadt club with about 300 young mares remains at its usual location and is free for at least ten years of sub-tenants of SK Rapid. In the future, both clubs should also cooperate in a sporting way.

Bickel: "a milestone" after a long wait

For sports manager Fredy Bickel, construction and implementation after a long wait is a "milestone" for Rapid. An inevitable investment.

"For me, it's the most important thing – it's always at the top for me because we have a lot of problems because of the absence of the center, which is an important, wonderful step." and that helps us incredibly. "

According to the sports director, so we do not even figure in the top 5 Austrian to find in recent years, the necessary infrastructure not being available.

So Rapid should have slid some talent between his fingers, "most of them have landed at the clubhouse," Bickel notes.

"It had not only financial reasons, but also reasons for infrastructure." This should change now.

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