Markus Pröll

Markus Pröll
Personal information
Full nameMarkus Pröll
Date of birth28 August 1979
Place of birthRheinbach, West Germany
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Club information
Current team
Free agent
Youth career
1985–1991VfR Flamersheim
1993–1995Eintracht Lommersum
1995–19981. FC Köln
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–20031. FC Köln111(0)
2003–2010Eintracht Frankfurt93(0)
2011Panionios1(0)
National team
2000–2001Germany U-216(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Markus Pröll (born 28 August 1979 in Rheinbach) is a German former football goalkeeper.[1] During his career, he played for 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany and Panionios F.C. in Greece.

Club career

He started his professional career with 1. FC Köln before moving to Frankfurt for the 2003–04 season.

He was elected by the German football magazine kicker as the Bundesliga's best goalkeeper of the first half of the 2006–07 season. Unfortunately he hardly could contend this title as he suffered of many injuries.

Trivia

At the beginning of his career, Pröll became a target of some ridicule because his name "Pröll" literally means something like "lout" in German.

References

  1. "Pröll hört auf: "Es macht so keinen Sinn mehr"" [Pöll quits: "It doesn't make sense anymore"] (in German). kicker.de. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2013.

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