Karim Bellarabi

Karim Bellarabi
Karim Bellarabi, 2014
Personnel
birthday	April 8, 1990
place of birth	West Berlin ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	Wing storm (right)
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1998	FC Huchting
1998-2004	Werder Bremen
2004-2008	FC Oberneuland
2008-2009	Eintracht Braunschweig
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2008	FC Oberneuland	7 0(2)
2008-2010	Eintracht Braunschweig II	22 (11)
2009-2011	Eintracht Braunschweig	38 0(8)
2011–	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	169 (31)
2011-2013	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	5 0(0)
2013-2014	→ Eintracht Braunschweig (loan)	26 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010-2011	Germany U-20	4 0(1)
2012	Germany U-21	5 0(0)
2014–	Germany	11 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of August 31, 2016

Karim Bellarabi (born April 8, 1990 in West Berlin ) is a German football player who also has Moroccan citizenship . The winger is under contract with Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

Club career

Childhood, Youth and Beginnings

Karim Bellarabi's mother is German , his father is Moroccan . He also has a Ghanaian stepfather. Bellarabi was born in Berlin and grew up in Bremen in a socially deprived area . He began playing football in the G-Jugend of the Bremen district club FC Huchting , where he played as a striker . Later he played for six years in the youth department of Werder Bremen and in 2004 moved to the youth department of FC Oberneuland . In the 2007/08 season Bellarabi came for the first men's team to seven missions in the then fourth-class Oberliga Nord , in which he scored two goals.

First professional station in Braunschweig

For the 2008/09 season Bellarabi moved to the A-youth of Eintracht Braunschweig . There he first played under Torsten Lieberknecht in the A-Jugend-Bundesliga and for the club's second team.

On the 38th matchday of the 2008/09 season , he made his debut under the promoted to head coach Torsten Lieberknecht for Eintrachts professionals in the 3rd division . In the 2010/11 season he was involved with eight goals and 16 assists in promotion to the 2nd division and the championship in the third division.

Change to Leverkusen and return to Braunschweig

His performances in the third division with Eintracht Braunschweig did not go unnoticed by other clubs, so that Bellarabi moved to Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the 2011/12 season. On matchday 36 of the third division season, he suffered a severe capsule and ligament injury to the ankle. Bellarabi already completed the rehabilitation measures at his new club in Leverkusen. On March 3, 2012 (24th matchday) he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the home game against FC Bayern Munich with the goal to make it 2-0 in the 90th minute. Bellarabi made his first appearance in the European Cup in the last 16 of the 2011/12 Champions League against FC Barcelona , where he scored at Camp Nou to make it 7-1. However, Bellarabi was unable to assert itself sustainably. In two seasons he came to only 18 missions in which he collected three scorer points and decided to return to Braunschweig.

After the 2nd matchday of the 2013/14 season , he returned on loan to Bundesliga promoted Eintracht Braunschweig in order to gain even more Bundesliga experience after their promotion to the upper house. Bellarabi scored his first Bundesliga goal for Braunschweig on October 5, 2013 in a 2-0 win in the derby at VfL Wolfsburg . Bellarabi scored three goals and prepared five in 26 Bundesliga games. Eintracht rose at the end of the season. Meanwhile, his contract in Leverkusen was extended to June 30, 2015.

Breakthrough at the second attempt in Leverkusen

For the 2014/15 season Bellarabi returned to Leverkusen and fought for a regular place under the new coach Roger Schmidt . At the Bundesliga opener of Leverkusen at Borussia Dortmund , he scored the fastest Bundesliga goal to date after nine seconds - this record was set on August 22, 2015 by Kevin Volland . Shortly before the end he prepared the second goal by Stefan Kießling ; Leverkusen won the game 2-0. Leverkusen used a club option to extend his contract and tied Bellarabi to the club until June 30, 2016. On February 20, 2015, his contract was extended to 2020. The 2014/15 season ended in fourth place for Leverkusen and fourth for Bellarabi with 46 games in the Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Champions League, in which he scored 13 goals. With the goal of 1-0 in the 23rd minute of the 3-1 win in the away game against FC Augsburg , he scored the 50,000 on February 17, 2017 (21st matchday). Gate of the Bundesliga .

Bellarabi's contract term in Leverkusen ends on June 30, 2023.

National team career

U national teams

On October 7, 2010, he made his debut for the U-20 national team . In the game in Heidenheim an der Brenz against the Swiss team , he was substituted at the beginning of the second half and scored the goal to make it 2-0. For the U-20 selection, he was used in four games - including the 3-1 win on February 9, 2011 in Oberhausen against the selection of Italy - and scored one goal. He played his last game on March 24, 2011 against the selection of Poland .

On August 12, 2012, Karim Bellarabi was appointed to the U-21 national team for the first time . In the game against Argentina in Offenbach , Bellarabi came on for Sebastian Polter after 58 minutes , and in the end Germany won 6-1. On October 16, 2012, he played his last game for the U-21 national team in a 3-1 win against Switzerland in Lucerne , which sealed qualification for the European Championship the following year . U-21 national coach Rainer Adrion did not nominate Bellarabi for the squad for the finals.

A national team

On October 2, 2014 Bellarabi was nominated for the first time for the senior national team for the games in the qualification for the European Championship 2016 against the selection of Poland and Ireland . He made his international debut on October 11, 2014 in Warsaw in the 2-0 defeat in the European Championship qualifier against Poland in the starting eleven and thus finally decided to play for the DFB selection . He scored his first international goal in the European Championship qualifier against Gibraltar on June 13, 2015.

For the European Championship in France , Bellarabi was appointed to the extended squad on May 17, 2016, which included 27 players. However, he was not included in the final squad announced on May 31, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Karim Bellarabi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karim Bellarabi in the database of weltfussball.de
• Karim Bellarabi in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Portrait at Bayer Leverkusen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karim Bellarabi: A candidate for Jogi Löw? , goal.com from September 2, 2014
2. ^ Daniel Theweleit: Leverkusen's Bellarabi: Löw's new wing ace. In: Spiegel Online. October 2, 2014, accessed on October 2, 2014 : "... for the winger who was born to a Moroccan mother and a German father and who later also lived with a Ghanaian stepfather." 
3. ↑ Marc Hagedorn: "Werder is still in my heart". In: Weserkurier. Weser-Kurier Mediengruppe / Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, January 23, 2014, accessed on July 6, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Bellarabi is on Morocco's wish list. In: RP-Online. September 16, 2012, accessed July 6, 2014 . 
5. ↑ http://www.eintracht.com/eintracht/aktuelles/news/news-archiv-2008-2012/einzelansicht.html?news=2940&cHash=4f18055a685418.eae23e778fb1d89b98 phi-dead link | url = http: //www.eintracht .com / eintracht / currentes / news / news-archiv-2008-2012 / single view.html? news = 2940 & cHash = 4f18055a685418.eae23e778fb1d89b98 | date = 2018-11 | archivebot = 2018-11-29 16:03:48 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link not available)
6. ^ The newcomer of the first half of the season: Karim Bellarabi , liga3-online.de, December 30, 2010, accessed on March 23, 2016.
7. ↑ Bayer grabs Karim Bellarabi , kicker.de
8. ↑ The season for Dogan and Bellarabi is over , kicker.de
9. ↑ Bellarabi is back , August 21, 2013, accessed March 23, 2016.
10. ↑ Braunschweig brings Bellarabi back , kicker.de, August 21, 2013
11. ↑ Volland with a record goal against Bayern , sport1.de, August 22, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2015
12. ↑ Karim Bellarabi scores a record goal , Bundesliga.de
13. ↑ Roger Schmidt's Bubis rock the league , express.de, September 1, 2014
14. ↑ Bayer 04 extends Bellarabi until 2020
15. ↑ "Karim Bellarabi shoots the 50,000. Bundesliga goal ” on bundesliga.de
16. ↑ "Of great importance": Bellarabi remains loyal to Leverkusen. August 13, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Olympia Verlag GmbH (ed.): Four newcomers to Adrion's U-21 squad. In: kicker online. August 12, 2012, accessed July 23, 2014 . 
18. ↑ Bellarabi for the first time to the national team. October 2, 2014, accessed October 2, 2014 . 
19. ↑ Bellarabi is the only bright spot of the DFB-Elf , Die Welt , October 11, 2014
20. ↑ Löws EM selection , dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
21. ↑ The extended EM squad for the European Championship in France 2016 (June 10 to July 10) ( Memento from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
22. ↑ Löw deletes Bellarabi, Brandt, Reus and Rudy ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 31, 2016