Sebastian Prödl

Sebastian Prödl in 2010

Sebastian Prödl ( born June 21, 1987 in Graz) is an Austrian football player. The defender played for the 2008/ 09 season at Werder Bremen.

Career

Association

Sebastian Prödl played in the youth at his home club SV Kirchberg and the SV field brook, before joining SK Sturm Graz in 2002. His debut for the storm in the Austrian Bundesliga he gave on 9 December 2006, in the 0-1 away defeat against SV Mattersburg. Five months later, on 9 May 2007, he was able to celebrate his first Bundesliga goal for Sturm. The headed goal to make it 1-0 against Altach signified the victory for his team. Sebastian Prödl was fixed in the 2007/ 08 season part of interior defense of Sturm Graz and had major share in the qualification for the Intertoto Cup.

For the season 2008/ 09 he moved for an estimated transfer fee of 2.5 million euros from the Austrian Bundesliga SK Sturm to Germany to Werder Bremen. He signed a contract until 30 June 2012. Prödl On August 9, made ​​his competitive debut in the jersey Werder at Eintracht Nordhorn against Werder Bremen. In this DFB Cup match of the first round, he was already in the starting lineup. The game ended with a 9:3 win. On August 16 he gave the away match in Bielefeld his Bundesliga debut. In the last game of the first round in 2008 against VfL Wolfsburg, the Austrian injured his ankle, which he missed the winter preparation and training camps of the Hanseatic League in Belek. On 18 March 2009 Prödl scored in the second round of the UEFA Cup his first competitive goal for Werder. In the return match against AS Saint- Étienne, he scored in a 2-2 1-0 ahead. Prödl reached with Werder in the further course of the competition, the final, which they however lost with 1:2 aet against Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk. In the Bundesliga, he came up 22 times to the end of the season. After the season, he won with Werder Bremen DFB Pokal 2008/ 09, where he played 04 Leverkusen over the full time in the final against Bayer. On January 21, 2012, he retired to the game against 1.FC Kaiserslautern severe facial injuries ( upper jaw, broken nose and concussion) to as Dorge Kouemaha hit him with a bicycle kick with his foot in the face, leading to a two-month break nachsich. On March 11, he made his comeback when she met the same forehead for temporary 2-0 against Hannover 96 2 May 2012 extended Prödl his end of the season expiring contract until 30 June 2015.

National

His first try for Austria had Prödl on 30 May 2007 in a friendly against Scotland.

Between June and July 2007, he took over as captain of the Austrian U-20 national team at the Junior World Cup 2007 in Canada, where it finished 4th. He was elected to the All- Star team of the tournament from the La Gazzetta dello Sport Through its services in Canada. He scored a goal and was in all eight games over the full season on the field.

Prödl participated in the 2008 European Championships in part in his native Austria and Switzerland, where he was employed in two games. The games against Croatia and Poland he played through. In the match against Poland, he was brought down by Mariusz Lewandowski in the penalty area. The awarded a penalty kick Ivica Vastić shortly before the final whistle to 1:1. Since Prödl saw the yellow card in the two matches he was in the third group game against Germany locked.

Achievements

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