Thomas Prager
Thomas Prager ( * September 13, 1985 in Vienna) is an Austrian football player. He played between 2006 and 2009 and 14 games for the Austrian national team. Since early 2014 he is in the Austrian Regional League club SC Wiener Viktoria under contract.
Career
His career began when Thomas Prager Austrian sub -division Wagner Biro Kagran / SV Hirschstetten and the country's division FC Stadlau. 2001, the midfielder was discovered by a Dutch talent scout at an indoor tournament and taken from SC Heerenveen under contract.
Thomas Prager's career path as a professional was marked by ups and downs. As a then 20- year-old at SC Heerenveen he pointed to with very good performances and became the great midfield hope for the Austrian national team. He embodied a moderenen midfielder who is very quick and good on the ball in the game forward, but also had defensive strengths. The 2006/07 season was the most successful in the career of Thomas Prager: he made it to the regular for a good middle class club in the Dutch Eredivisie, completed on 23 May 2006 his team debut in the 1:4 defeat against Croatia and was hopefuls for the upcoming 2008 European Football Championship on home soil. On 6 October 2006 in a 2-1 away win against Liechtenstein, he scored his first goal for the national team.
However, only one year later, he lost his place and his contract was not renewed. A transfer to Spain Racing Santander failed and he moved back to Austria in August 2008 to LASK Linz. The home championship he pursued due to the recent months only on the bench. However, the time when LASK was very changeable. After the 2008 European Championships he acquired under Andrej Panadić and Klaus Lindenberger Although a regular place, but his performance has been mixed. Only in the fall of 2009 when Prague was LASK back to form. He held the position of the hanging top and enjoyed a lot of freedom in the offensive game. This resulted in eight goals and nine assists in the first fifteen rounds. During this time he made along with his strike partner Roman Wallner most dangerous duo in the league with 39 points scorer. After a coaching change and the disposal Roman Wallner at LASK the winter of 2009, his only one gate and Assist Since commitment to the residents of Linz succeeded thus ended in the summer of 2010 after a total of 51 games. On 10 October 2009 he played his last match to date against Lithuania.
Before the start of season 2010/11 Thomas Prager moved to Switzerland for FC Lucerne and thus won his second international commitment. This time was for FC Lucerne is a very successful, however, Prague was often in the role of reservists again. Only in the first round of the Swiss Cup he was in the starting lineup, in the Axpo Super League, however, he could not prevail. The at that time already 25 -year-old Prague recorded only 18 substitutions. His contract at the Swiss ran over three years, but Rapid Wien was after just one season on June 1 of 2011, Prague, initially for one year with an option for a further year to borrow. There he was to replace the migrated Yasin Pehlivan after it has not worked in the previous year with the transfer of Rapid. While the Viennese have drawn the option to Thomas Prager and loaned him for one more season from FC Luzern, but the benefits of both Rapid and from Prague were only moderately at that time. For Rapid Wien Thomas Prager completed a total of 33 games, but remained without a goal. After two seasons at Rapid and simultaneous end of the contract period at FC Lucerne in the summer of 2013, Prague was the rest of the year without a club. End of January 2014 was the Vienna Regional SC Wiener Viktoria known the obligation of Thomas Prager.