New regulations: Prödl will lead the youth teams in the future!

New regulations: Prödl will lead the youth teams in the future!

Wien, Österreich - Vienna is experiencing a change in Austrian football today! The ÖFB has announced that former international Sebastian Prödl was officially hired as the new head of the youth teams. The 37-year-old, who gives up the post on the Supervisory Board at the Vienna Austria at the end of the year, will play a key role in winning young talents for the Austrian national team, as is from Today.at . Prödl emphasized that after two years since his career end, he was ready to invest a lot of energy and to support the young players.

new U21 coach and strategic changes

In a press conference in the Vienna Hotel Courtyard Marriott, sports director Peter Schöttel also presented Peter Perchtold as the new U21 team boss. Perchtold, who previously worked as an assistant coach under Ralf Rangnick, will take responsibility for the U21 team and is also responsible for developing a common game idea for all national teams, as in OE24 . Schöttel called the decisions part of a comprehensive plan to optimize certain areas of the ÖFB.

One of the central tasks of Prödl will be to convince talents that are also suitable for other nations from the ÖFB, since a third of the potential players now also have other options. "We did not have this one person where everything is going together," said Schöttel, making it clear the importance of this new role for the future of Austrian football.