Gregor Kobel

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Gregor Kobel
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Gregor Kobel (2019)
Personnel
birthday December 6, 1997
place of birth Zurich ,  Switzerland
Size 193 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
FC Seefeld Zurich
2005-2014 Grasshopper Club Zurich
2014-2016 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2018 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II 43 (0)
2016-2018 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 1 (0)
2019 →  FC Augsburg  (loan) 16 (0)
2019– VfB Stuttgart 31 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012 Switzerland U15 2 (0)
2013-2014 Switzerland U17 3 (0)
2014-2015 Switzerland U18 4 (0)
2015-2016 Switzerland U19 7 (0)
2016 Switzerland U20 2 (0)
2016-2018 Switzerland U21 9 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of October 16, 2018

Gregor Kobel (born December 6, 1997 in Zurich ) is a Swiss football goalkeeper who is under contract with VfB Stuttgart . He is also a former young Swiss national player.

Career

society

Beginnings in Switzerland

Gregor Kobel, son of the former ice hockey player Peter Kobel (including ZSC Lions , HC Lugano and HC Davos ), began playing football in his hometown at FC Seefeld Zurich . At the age of eight he moved to the Grasshopper Club Zurich , where he was trained in the club's internal youth department .

Change to Hoffenheim

After TSG 1899 Hoffenheim made contact through the Swiss Football Association , Kobel was only loaned out for 2 years in September 2014 and then firmly committed. In the 2014/15 season , Kobel replaced Dominik Draband, one year older, in the A-Juniors (U19) and played three times in the A-Juniors' Bundesliga . In the season 2015/16 followed 16 appearances. In the spring of 2016, he also played five times in the second team in the fourth-class Regionalliga Südwest , after having been a member of the matchday squad from time to time for the entire season.

For the 2016/17 season Kobel received a professional contract that ran until June 30, 2020 and was promoted to Julian Nagelsmann's professional squad . There he was the third goalkeeper behind Oliver Baumann and Alexander Stolz . Kobel was not used by the professionals, but gained match experience in the regional league, in which he was used 26 times. In the 2017/18 season , Kobel was behind Baumann at the Bundesliga games mostly instead of pride in the matchday squad. He played 8 times in the regional league and was also preferred to Baumann by Nagelsmann in both DFB Cup games . The same was the situation in the first half of the 2018/19 season : Kobel played both cup games until they were eliminated and sat on the bench at the Bundesliga games. On the 5th matchday he was preferred to Baumann for one game and made his Bundesliga debut in the 3-1 away win against Hannover 96 . In addition, the Swiss player played four times in the regional league.

Via Augsburg to Stuttgart

At the beginning of January 2019, Kobel moved on loan to league rivals FC Augsburg until the end of the 2018/19 season to strengthen the goalkeeping team around the criticized Fabian Giefer and Andreas Luthe . Kobel immediately became a regular goalkeeper and had played 16 Bundesliga games by the end of the season; he was injured only once.

For the 2019/20 season, Kobel extended his contract in Hoffenheim until June 30, 2021 and switched to the 2nd Bundesliga for one year on loan to relegated VfB Stuttgart . After the departure of the regular goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler , the Swiss was able to prevail in the preparation against the also newly signed Fabian Bredlow and became the new number 1. After 23 goals in 15 league games, Bredlow received for the last 3 games before the winter break from head coach Tim Walter the trust. From the winter preparations, however, the Swiss emerged again as a regular goalkeeper under Walter's successor Pellegrino Matarazzo . Kobel played 31 league games and was promoted to the Bundesliga with VfB.

On July 28, 2020 Kobel finally moved to VfB Stuttgart and signed a contract with the Swabians that runs until June 2024.

National team

After appearances for all youth national teams from the U15 onwards, the goalkeeper played for the U21s in his country from 2016 to 2018 , with whom he missed the qualification for the EM 2019 .

In 2017 and 2018 Kobel was in the A-Team squad for two friendship and one Nations League games , but was not used.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Player portrait: Gregor Kobel, 19 years . lattenkreuz.de, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ He is still the great stranger NZZ.ch , November 10, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2018
  3. ^ Extend Stolz & Kobel - Schwäbel an Dresden awarded , tsg-hoffenheim.de, June 20, 2016, accessed on July 14, 2020.
  4. ↑ FCA borrows goalkeeper Gregor Kobel , fcaugsburg.de, January 3, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ With the possibility of an obligation: VfB lends Kobel , kicker.de, June 24, 2019, accessed on July 14, 2020.
  6. ↑ The VfB is strengthening itself with Gregor Kobel , vfb.de, June 24, 2019, accessed on June 24, 2019.
  7. ↑ Gregor Kobel moves to VfB VfB Stuttgart July 28, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Kobel, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich