Part-time job in a food truck

Meal time! Professional footballer is also a burger king

Matthias Gragger in the food truck.(Bild: Scharinger Daniel)

(Bild: Scharinger Daniel)

He normally spends his evenings in a "5-star food truck" - except, of course, when second division soccer team Ried are playing. Then Matthias Gragger tries to make sure his opponents lose their appetite. Which he wishes for his burger customers on "free" evenings . . .  

If there is no training on afternoons, he stands in the "Burgerei".  

Matthias Gragger:

• Ried defender.

• Now a professional footballer!

• And now also burger king!

The Ried professional serves his guests delicious burgers.(Bild: Scharinger Daniel)

The latter, however, not because the 22-year-old devours them by the dozen, but because he fries them with a great deal of expertise. And not just anywhere, but in Mehrnbach in a food truck called "Baukasten". It was recently named the best street food restaurant in Upper Austria by Falstaff. "The job has been agreed with SV Ried, of course," says the Abersee native, who has been given too much of what he now sometimes puts in his burgers at the food truck in his professional life:

A pickle!

Series of bad luck is "eaten"

First cruciate ligament rupture in May 2021, second in August 2023. "But now I'm fit again," smiles Gragger, who became involuntarily world-famous between the horror injuries with a 64-meter own goal thanks to the internet.

But that's all over - now the Burger King wants to "roast" Ried to the second division title and first division promotion! For now, however, the team will be tested against Cluj/Rum. on Friday at 6.30 pm in St. Roman.