After “Toni Doppelpack” was rejected by the court in August with his demand for a total of 47 instead of 44 international goals in the ÖFB statistics, the case now goes into extra time and in the second instance: “I scored the goals!”
Football legend Toni Polster does not give up: after his defeat at first instance at the regional court for civil law in Vienna, the 60-year-old appeals. The legal dispute with the ÖFB concerns three international goals that do not appear in the official statistics. There, Polster is officially in first place with 44 goals. However, the goals from the matches against Liechtenstein on 7 June 1984, against Tunisia on 7 February 1987 and against Morocco on 2 February 1988 are said to be missing.
“Incorrect assessment of evidence”
The judge saw it differently and concluded in his August ruling that it was the sole responsibility of the ÖFB to decide which matches and in what form they should be used for the international match statistics. “We are appealing because of incorrect factual findings, incorrect assessment of evidence and legal assessment,” confirms Polster’s lawyer Manfred Ainedter before going to the Higher Regional Court.
In the ÖFB, the extension of the case is handled calmly. Secretary General Thomas Hollerer on the ‘Krone’: ‘It is Toni Polster’s right to appeal if he feels he has been treated unfairly. But we still believe that we did everything right in the eighties.’
Source: Krone
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