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Gerald Bacher

Austrian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ65929427
Source-derived summary

Gerald Bacher (born 8 October 1968) is an Austrian football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current assistant coach of Wolfsberger AC's under-16 team.

Coaching career

Bacher started his coaching career with SV Sachsenburg in 2010 after retiring as a player. He then had multiple stints as coach of lower-level clubs, including SV Treffen between 2015 and 2016. In 2023, Bacher was appointed assistant coach for Wolfsberger AC's under-16 team.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gerald Bacher” is austrian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gerald, Bacher and Austrian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2010, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-10-08. For this dossier, Gerald, Bacher and Austrian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65929427. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968, 2010, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Gerald Bacher” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.