{"id":2529,"date":"2026-04-16T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:51:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:51:43","slug":"alexander-manninger-former-arsenal-goalkeeper-dies-at-48-in-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2529","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Manninger, former Arsenal goalkeeper, dies at 48 in road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Austrian football is in mourning. Alexander Manninger, one of its representatives, died this Thursday at the age of 48, after a road accident. His car was allegedly hit by a train north of Salzburg, not far from the German border, Austrian media report. No other victims would be counted.<\/p>\n<p>Manninger was the first (and only) Austrian player to wear Arsenal&#8217;s colors in the Premier League. He joined the Premier League in 1997, aged just 19, to act as understudy for legend David Seaman. He played with players like Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, \u200b\u200bPatrick Vieira, Nicolas Anelka. During this first season, he managed to win the Premier League-FA Cup-Charity Shield treble with the Gunners.<\/p>\n<h2>\u201cAn exceptional ambassador for Austrian football\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>After his time across the Channel, Alexander Manninger played mainly in Italy (Fiorentina, Siena, Juventus), with stints in Spain, Germany and Austria, at home at Red Bull Salzburg. The goalkeeper had played 33 matches with the Austrian selection.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"c-media\">\n<p><iframe title=\"2006, ann\u00e9e de la derni\u00e8re victoire de l\u2019Italie dans un match de Coupe du monde\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/deliver\/generic\/iframe\/mdtk\/01357940\/zone\/1\/src\/38u3umk\/showtitle\/1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAlexander Manninger was an exceptional ambassador for Austrian football, on and off the field,\u201d said Peter Sch\u00f6ttel, sports director of the Austrian Football Association, quoted by <span class=\"text-italic\">Sky Sports<\/span>. His international career was a benchmark and inspired many young goalkeepers. \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian football is in mourning. Alexander Manninger, one of its representatives, died this Thursday at the age of 48, after a road accident. His car was allegedly hit by a train north of Salzburg, not far from the German border, Austrian media report. No other victims would be counted. Manninger was the first (and only) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}