Arnold Wetl (born 2 February 1970 in

Eibiswald Eibiswald ( Slovene: ''Ivnik'') is a municipality in the district of Deutschlandsberg in the Austrian state of Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast ...

) is a retired

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who played as a

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Club career

During his career he played for

Sturm Graz Sportklub Sturm Graz is an Austrian association football club, based in Graz, Styria, playing in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. The club was founded in 1909. Its colours are black and white. In its history, Sturm Graz has won the Austrian f ...

, with whom he won 4 domestic cup titles, FC Porto,

Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

and

FC Gratkorn FC Gratkorn was an Austrian association football club from Gratkorn. They played in the Austrian Football First League The Austrian Football Second League (german: 2. Liga) is the second-highest professional division in Austrian football. I ...

International career

Wetl made his debut for

in an April 1991 friendly match against

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and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He earned 21 caps, scoring 4 goals. His final international match was the embarrassing 0–9 defeat by

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in a European Championship qualification match in March 1999.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first.''

Honours

* Austrian Cup (1): ** 1996 *

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: (1) ** 1996–97 * Portuguese Supercup (1): ** 1996

External links

Rapid stats
- Rapid Archive *

References

1970 births Living people People from Deutschlandsberg District Austrian men's footballers Austria men's international footballers 1998 FIFA World Cup players SK Sturm Graz players FC Porto players SK Rapid Wien players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Primeira Liga players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal FC Gratkorn players Men's association football midfielders Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Footballers from Styria {{austria-footy-midfielder-stub