Career

During his career, he played for 1. Football Club Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany and Panionios F.C. in Greece. He started his professional career with 1.

Football Club Köln before moving to Frankfurt for the 2003-2004 season.

He was elected by the German football magazine kicker as the Bundesliga"s best goalkeeper of the first half of the 2006-2007 season. Unfortunately he hardly could contend this title as he suffered of many injuries.

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