Sebastian Prödl
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Sebastian Prödl is an Austria
Austria
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n footballer who plays for Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
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 and the Austrian national team
Austria national football team
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.

Club career

Aged 19, he began his professional career playing for Sturm Graz
SK Sturm Graz
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 in the Austrian Bundesliga in 2006. In July 2008 he moved to Germany
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 to play for Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen
SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...

.

International career

In 2007 he was called to play for Austria
Austria national football team
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. He served as captain of Austria's U-20 national team at the 2007 U-20 World Cup
2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup
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 in Canada
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 where he helped his team to a fourth place finish. After the tournament was over he was voted into the U-20 World Cup line-up by Italian magazine Gazzetta dello Sport (as the only player out of the Austrian U-20 team).

He made his senior debut for Austria
Austria national football team
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 in May 2007 against Scotland
Scotland national football team
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. On 26 March 2008, Prödl scored two goals in an international friendly against the Netherlands
Netherlands national football team
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. On 12 June 2008 during the Euro 2008 Austria vs. Poland game he was fouled in the 92nd minute in the penalty area and the referee, Howard Webb
Howard Webb
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, awarded Austria
Austria national football team
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 a penalty kick. This resulted in Austria's only goal of the tournament.

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 26 March 2008 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Vienna
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, Austria
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3–4 Lost Friendly
2. 26 March 2008 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Vienna
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, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 
3–4 Lost Friendly
3. 8 October 2010 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 
3–0 Win UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
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Correct as of 9 October 2010

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