Jesse Marsch became the first born-and-bred American soccer coach to win a significant European trophy on Friday as Red Bull Salzburg waltzed to a 5-0 victory over Austria Lustenau in the final of the ÖFB-Cup, Austria’s national cup competition.
It was Salzburg’s second straight Cup triumph and seventh overall, and it came in the club’s first game back following the pause necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic. Action in Austria’s Bundesliga is set to resume next week.
Salzburg will have a crack at a seventh domestic double thanks in part to Friday’s victory. Lustenau, a second-division team, was a heavy underdog and trailed by two after 21 minutes thanks to a free kick from Salzburg’s Dominik Szoboszlai and an own goal.