Team boss Ralf Rangnick went soberly. "The team has achieved its real goal, he said after Austria's retirement against Spain in the World Cup Sixteenth final. "We have progressed in an extremely difficult group. Already at the draw we knew that the probability is great to rise second and then meet Spain, so the team boss. Against Spain there was ultimately nothing to do. The 0:3 was at the same time the highest defeat in the era Ranknick. Rankni…
After the 0:3 in the sixteenth final against Spain, the ÖFB team played for the first World Cup in 28 years. The tournament showed the limits of the Rangnick team.