Austrian squad for Ukraine friendly

Published: 02 Nov 2011 - 11:17:04

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The Swiss Marcel Koller named Wednesday his first squad as Austrian national football coach, ahead of the November 15 friendly against Euro 2012 hosts Ukraine in Lviv.

West Brom midfielder Paul Scharner, Ekrem Dag of Turkish side Besiktas and Juergen Macho of Greek club Panionios were left out of the 23-member list due to injuries.

Austria squad

Goalkeepers: Robert Almer (Fortuna Duesseldorf/GER), Pascal Gruenwald (Austria Vienna), Heinz Lindner (Austria Vienna)

Defenders: Aleksandar Dragovic (FC Basel/SUI), Christian Fuchs (Schalke/GER), Florian Klein (Austria Vienna), Georg Margreitter (Austria Vienna), Manuel Ortlechner (Austria Vienna), Emanuel Pogatetz (Hanover 96/GER), Sebastian Proedl (Werder Bremen/GER), Franz Schiemer (Salzburg)

Midfielders: David Alaba (Bayern Munich/GER), Julian Baumgartlinger (Mainz/GER), Christopher Drazan (Rapid Vienna), Andreas Ivanschitz (Mainz/GER), Zlatko Junuzovic (Austria Vienna), Veli Kavlak (Besiktas/TUR), Florian Mader (Austria Vienna), Christopher Trimmel (Rapid Vienna)

Strikers: Marko Arnautovic (Werder Bremen/GER), Martin Harnik (VfB Stuttgart/GER), Erwin Hoffer (Eintracht Frankfurt/GER), Marc Janko (FC Twente/NED)

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