{"id":769714,"date":"2023-11-14T12:04:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/uncategorized-en\/20231114-xronia-polla-thomas\/"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T11:20:56","slug":"20231114-xronia-polla-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/news\/20231114-xronia-polla-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Thomas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/profiles\/thomas-murg-en\/\">Thomas Murg<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was born on\u00a0<strong>November 14\u00a0<\/strong><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>Voitsberg,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Austria<\/strong>\u00a0and at just age six he joined the youth academy at\u00a0<strong>B\u00e4rnbach<\/strong>, where he remained until\u00a0<strong>2010,<\/strong>\u00a0moving on later to\u00a0<strong>Sturm Graz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He soon moved on to\u00a0<strong>Grazer AK,<\/strong>\u00a0where he made his professional debut in 2010. He stayed at teh club for two years, making 49 appearances and scoring 13 goals in the\u00a0<strong>Austrian\u00a0<\/strong>lower divisions<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0before then making a big step up and joining\u00a0<strong>Austria Vienna.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There he made 19 appearances and scored two goals, playing for both the reserve and first teams, while he also won a league title in the\u00a0<strong>2012-13\u00a0<\/strong>season.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0he moved on to\u00a0<strong>SV Ried,<\/strong>\u00a0where his career took off. In two seasons at the club, he chalked up 44 games, eight goals, and six assists, establishing himself as one of the league\u2019s best attacking midfielders.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2016\u00a0<strong>Rapid Vienna<\/strong>\u00a0came calling and signed him.\u00a0<a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/profiles\/thomas-murg-en\/\"><strong>Murg<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0immediately took on a leading role in the team and has played a major part in the team\u2019s rise to prominence in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Overall,\u00a0<strong>Murg\u00a0<\/strong>made 163 appearances in a\u00a0<strong>Rapid<\/strong>\u00a0shirt, scoring 35 goals and contributing another 40 assists.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"boldlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paokfc.gr\/en\/profiles\/thomas-murg-en\/\">Murg<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>received an offer from\u00a0<strong>PAOK<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>October<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2020<\/strong>\u00a0which he accepted and moved to\u00a0<strong>Thessaloniki<\/strong>. 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