Watford’s Sebastian Prödl: ‘I’m interested in furniture, interiors and especially kitchens’

The Austrian centre-back comes from a family that specialises in football and producing kitchens. He discusses his love of design and London, his fears for the Premier League and Watford’s battle to avoid ‘goblins’

The Prödls have two family businesses. The first, started in Styria two generations ago by Josef Prödl, has become a successful producer of high-end kitchens. The second is football. Sebastian Prödl is Watford’s player of the season; his brother, Matthias, played in Austria’s lower leagues but retired last year; a cousin, Viktoria Schnaderbeck, plays for Bayern Munich and captains Austria’s women’s team; another cousin, Jason Kicker, is a 20-year-old goalkeeper trying to make his way into the professional game; and a third was on the books of a top-flight team in Austria as a youth before injury ended his career.

“I really don’t know how it happened,” Sebastian Prödl says. “We always think about it and talk about it. Maybe when we were young we played together and it started like this?”

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