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Team boss Franco Foda has nominated his new ÖFB team. The Austrian national team will play an international triple in October.
On October 7, at 8:30 p.m., the ÖFB team welcomes Greece for a test match in Klagenfurt. Then the UEFA Nations League continues. On October 11, at 8:45 p.m., Foda’s troops will be in Belfast with the Northern Irish, on October 14 at 8:45 p.m., they will face Romania in Bucharest. All games in the LIVE ticker >>>
With forward Sasa Kalajdzic (VfB Stuttgart) and midfielder Raphael Holzhauser (Beerschot), two newcomers appear in the 26-player squad.
Missing Marko Arnautovic, who returns to stay in China, and the injured Marcel Sabitzer, Valentino Lazaro, Konrad Laimer, Florian Kainz and Peter Zulj.
“The issue of injuries and Covid-19 will continue to worry us in the future. Little has changed in the basic structure of the squad, we want to continue practicing. As there are three pending games, we have nominated a slightly larger squad in order to better manage training. can act, “explains Foda.
Kalajdzic has been on the bill for a while
Kalajdzic’s nomination makes up for what Foda had been planning for a long time.
“We had been thinking about him for a long time, but then unfortunately he came out with his cruciate ligament injury. He has shown the qualities that he has at VfB Stuttgart in recent weeks,” the team boss said about Admira in the summer of 2019. Striker switched to VfB.
With Holzhauser, the ÖFB supervisory staff managed a little surprise. The former Austrian had a good start to the season for Beerschot in Belgium and has five goals and four assists after seven league games.
The development of Holzhauser
According to Foda, the 27-year-old has “developed in recent months,” as the scouting video revealed:
“I watched some of his games. He played very well in almost every game I watched. Most of all, I liked the way he looked better than a few years ago.”
Specifically, the German now sees “more dynamism” in Holzhauser. Now he has much more power in the game, he also has depth. His club plays 3-4-3, plays there in the double ten, goes down even without the ball. He has already scored wonderful goals, has good attack speed, plays good balls in the final, prepares goals. All that spoke for him, that’s why we invited him. He deserved the opportunity to be with the national team. . “
Alaba, Ulmer and Schlager were saved for the moment
There is a good chance that both debutants will make their debut in the friendly against Greece; Foda has already given Kalajdzic the ability to do so.
Another reason for the enlarged squad is that three players will be missing from the friendly match in Klagenfurt with David Alaba, Andreas Ulmer and Xaver Schlager. The trio will not join the squad until next Tuesday.
“They are highly charged internationally and are supposed to regenerate at home with their families on Monday. These three spelers will not be considered for my part against Greece,” Foda said.
Arnautovic would like to, but can’t
The team boss cannot yet consider Marko Arnautovic.
Foda reports on a phone call with the Chinese legionnaire: “He feels good, he would have liked to join the national team, but the situation has not changed. Entering Austria would not be the problem, but on the return trip to China he would have to go back 14 days in quarantine. That is unreasonable. “
In this sense, Foda has little hope regarding the November internationals, because they could collide with the final of the Chinese league: “The club does not have to turn off the player either. There is no point getting into a confrontation.”
| player | society | International / Goals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| HILL: | Alexander Schlager | LASK | 3/0 |
| Paul pervan | Wolfsburg | 1/0 | |
| Cican Stankovic | Salzburg | 4/0 | |
| DEFENDING: | Andreas Ulmer | Salzburg | 19/0 |
| Aleksandar Dragovic | Leverkusen | 81/1 | |
| Martin Hinteregger | Frankfurt | 47/4 | |
| Stefan posch | Hoffenheim | 7/1 | |
| Stefan lainer | Gladbach | 20/1 | |
| Reinholf ranftl | LASK | 1/0 | |
| Marco Friedl | Werder | 0/0 | |
| Christopher Trimmel | Union Berlin | 7/0 | |
| Philipp Lienhart | Freiburg | 1/0 | |
| MIDFIELD: | Stefan Ilsanker | Leipzig | 43/0 |
| David Alaba | Bayern | 72/14 | |
| Florian Grillitsch | Hoffenheim | 16/1 | |
| Julian Baumgartlinger | Leverkusen | 76/1 | |
| Christoph Baumgartner | Hoffenheim | 2/1 | |
| Xaver Schlager | Wolfsburg | 1/13 | |
| Raphael holzhauser | Beerschot | 0/0 | |
| Louis Schaub | Lucerne | 14/5 | |
| Alessandro Schöpf | Schalke | 4/22 | |
| ATTACK: | Michael Gregoritsch | Augsburg | 19/3 |
| Adrian grbic | Lorient | 2/0 | |
| Christoph Monschein | Austria | 1/0 | |
| Now Kalajdzic | Stuttgart | 0/0 | |
| Karim Onisiwo | Mainz | 1/8 |
On call: Martin Fraisl (SV Sandhausen / GER, 0), Heinz Lindner (FC Basel / SUI, 28), Jörg Siebenhandl (Sturm Graz, 2) – Gernot Trauner (LASK, 1/0), Maximilian Ullmann (Rapid Wien, 0), Albert Vallci (Red Bull Salzburg, 0), Philipp Wiesinger (LASK, 0), Maximilian Wöber (Red Bull Salzburg, 6/0), Husein Balic (LASK, 0), Yusuf Demir (Rapid Vienna, 0), Mathias Honsak ( SV Darmstadt 98 / GER, 0), Thomas Murg (Rapid Wien, 0), Stefan Schwab (PAOK Saloniki / GRE, 1/0), Patrick Wimmer (Austria Wien, 0), Hannes Wolf (Borussia Mönchengladbach / GER, 0) , Marko Raguz (LASK, 0)
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