OLG now decides
Toni Polster appeals in dispute over goals
After "Toni Doppelpack" was rebuffed in court in August with his claim for a total of 47 instead of 44 international goals in the ÖFB statistics, the case now goes into extra time and into the second instance: "I scored the goals!"
Soccer legend Toni Polster is not giving up: After his first-instance defeat in the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters, the 60-year-old is appealing. The legal dispute with the ÖFB is about three international goals that do not appear in the official statistics. Polster is officially listed at the top of the list with 44 goals. However, the goals from the games against Liechtenstein on June 7, 1984, against Tunisia on February 7, 1987 and against Morocco on February 2, 1988 are missing.
"Incorrect assessment of the evidence"
The judge took a different view and came to the conclusion in his ruling in August that it was solely up to the ÖFB to decide which matches should be included in the international match statistics and in what form. "We are appealing on the grounds of incorrect fact-finding, incorrect assessment of the evidence and legal assessment," confirmed Polster's lawyer Manfred Ainedter about the appeal to the higher regional court.
The ÖFB is taking the extension of the case in stride. General Secretary Thomas Hollerer told the "Krone": "It is Toni Polster's right to appeal if he feels he has been treated unfairly. However, we are still of the opinion that we did everything right in the 1980s."
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