Alessandro Schöpf

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Alessandro Schöpf
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Alessandro Schöpf (2014)
Personnel
birthday February 7, 1994
place of birth Umhausen ,  Austria
size 178 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1999-2007 SV Längenfeld
2007-2009 AKA Tirol
2009–2012 FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2014 FC Bayern Munich II 63 (22)
2013-2014 FC Bayern Munich 0 0(0)
2014-2016 1. FC Nuremberg 51 (11)
2016– FC Schalke 04 93 (10)
2017-2019 FC Schalke 04 II 3 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2010 Austria U16 5 0(0)
2011 Austria U18 1 0(0)
2012-2013 Austria U19 10 0(2)
2013-2016 Austria U21 20 0(8)
2016– Austria 22 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of November 15, 2018

Alessandro André Schöpf (born February 7, 1994 in Umhausen ) is an Austrian football player . The versatile midfielder, who comes from the Ötztal , moved to Bayern Munich as a youth . His breakthrough in professional football came with 1. FC Nürnberg . He has been under contract with FC Schalke 04 since 2016 and is an Austrian national player.

Club career

Beginning in Austria and continuing in Germany

Schöpf started playing soccer at SV Längenfeld at the age of five. After eight seasons he moved to the "Akademie Tirol". In 2009 he joined the youth performance center of FC Bayern Munich . After two years in youth B, he moved up to the A youth squad in the 2011/12 season and, with five goals and two assists after 25 games, contributed to winning the championship in the A-Junior Bundesliga South / South-West . As a result, the team qualified for the championship finals , in which they lost to FC Schalke 04 in the final .

FC Bayern Munich

In 2012 he was promoted to the second team, played 63 games in two seasons in the fourth-class Bavarian regional league and scored 22 goals. He made his senior debut on July 21, 2012 in a 1-1 home game against 1. FC Nürnberg II , and scored his first goal on October 7, 2012 in a 5-0 win in the away game against Viktoria Aschaffenburg with the goal for 2-0 in the 55th minute. In the summer of 2013 he played in several preparation games for the first team of FC Bayern. In November 2013 he signed a professional contract that ran until 2016, but was still only used in test matches, for example a game against the Sudanese champions Al-Merrikh as part of the winter training camp in Doha ( Qatar ). With the second team he finished second and once first in the Regionalliga Bayern, in his last game for the amateurs of FC Bayern he missed the intended promotion to the 3rd division in stoppage time against Fortuna Köln .

1. FC Nuremberg

For the 2014/15 season he was signed by Bundesliga relegated 1. FC Nürnberg , for whom he played his first league game on August 3, 2014 (1st matchday) in a 1-0 home win against FC Erzgebirge Aue . On September 29, 2014 he scored his first goals in the 2nd Bundesliga with two goals in a 3-2 home win against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He then established himself in the Nuremberg first team; even after the coach change from Valérien Ismaël to René Weiler in November 2014 . At the end of the season, Schöpf had scored five goals and provided seven assists in 32 league games. For the club, the season ended in midfield. Schöpf was also a regular in the following season . At the end of 2015, he had scored six goals in 19 league games, prepared four more and was third with the club.

FC Schalke 04

On January 9, 2016, Schöpf moved to Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 for a transfer fee of 5 million euros (plus bonus payments) , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 30, 2019. He made his Bundesliga debut on January 30, 2016 in a 2-0 win in the away game against SV Darmstadt 98 . At the end of the season he had scored three goals and provided three assists in 13 Bundesliga games.

For the 2016/17 season , coach André Breitenreiter was replaced by Markus Weinzierl . On April 28, 2017, Schöpf tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during the second half of the match in Leverkusen and was out for several months. In the 2016/17 season he was mainly used in the right defensive midfield. At the end of the season in which he was tenth with Schalke, he had scored six goals and provided two assists in 28 games in the Bundesliga. In the Europa League he was eliminated with Schalke in the quarter-finals against Ajax Amsterdam , he was used in ten of the twelve games, twice over the full playing time.

In the 2017/18 season he came to individual missions from October after a recovered injury, he was not in the starting XI again until December. On February 15, 2018, Schöpf extended his contract term to 2021. In the season that Schalke finished as runner-up under the new coach Domenico Tedesco , Schöpf made 15 league appearances. In addition, there were four appearances in the DFB Cup , in which Schalke were just inferior to the eventual cup winners Eintracht Frankfurt in the semi-finals . Schöpf played in that semifinals as well as in the quarterfinals against VfL Wolfsburg for the full season.

In the first few months of the 2018/19 season there was a constant change between the starting eleven and substitutes for Schöpf. With second place in the previous season, Schalke had qualified for the Champions League . In the very first group game, a 1-1 draw against FC Porto , Schöpf played his first Champions League game over the full playing time. With his team he managed to qualify for the round of 16.

National team

On September 15, 2009 Schöpf came as a substitute for his international debut at a game of the Austrian U16 national team in Slovakia. Four more assignments for the U16 followed by May 2010. He played his next international match in October 2011 for the U18s in a 1: 2 defeat in Zurich against Switzerland. This was his only assignment for the U18. Between March 2012 and June 2013 he played ten games for the U19 national team , including several qualifying games for the European Championships in 2012 and 2013 , for which Austria was unable to qualify. For the U19, he scored two goals in those ten games. From August 2013 he played a total of 20 times for the U21 national team and scored eight goals. However, the qualification for the U21 European Championship 2015 in the Czech Republic failed.

He made his debut for the senior national team on March 26, 2016 in a 2-1 win in the test international against the selection from Albania . He scored his first international goal in his third game on May 31, 2016 in a 2-1 win in the friendly against Malta with the goal of 2-0 in the 18th minute.

He was substituted on in all three group matches at the 2016 European Championships in France. In the last game against Iceland he came into the game after the half-time break and scored the only tournament goal for the Austrians with the goal to make it 1-1. The team still lost and was eliminated from the tournament after the group games.

After eleven appearances for the senior national team, Schöpf made one last appearance for the U21s in the decisive final qualifying game for the 2017 U21 European Championship in November 2016 . Austria scored 0-0 in the relegation second leg against Spain, but after the 1-1 home game this result was enough for the Spaniards to reach the European Championship in Poland due to the away goals rule . Schöpf was sent off with a disputed yellow-red card in the 81st minute of the game. This meant that he was banned from the senior national team's next World Cup qualifier, Schöpf missed the rest of the ultimately unsuccessful World Cup qualification due to his cruciate ligament injury in Leverkusen in April 2017 and was only used again for his country from November 2017. On June 2, 2018, he scored the 2-1 winning goal for the Austrian national team in the test match against Germany in Klagenfurt and thus contributed to the first victory of an ÖFB selection against the German national team since 1986.

Awards

Style of play

Schöpf's preferred position is that of the central attacking midfielder (" Zehner "). At Schalke 04 he mainly plays as an offensive and defensive flank player and is also used in defensive midfield or as a winger .

In addition to his technique and ball handling, his speed and above-average mileage are his strengths.

Web links

Commons : Alessandro Schöpf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FCB also wins second preparation game , fcbayern.com, June 30, 2013, accessed on November 30, 2018
  2. ↑ 13: 0 - Peat Festival at the Paulaner Cup , July 5, 2013, accessed on November 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Professional contracts for Alessandro Schöpf and Julian Green fcbayern.de, accessed on November 5, 2014
  4. ↑ FCB starts 2014 with a win , fcbayern.com, January 9, 2014, accessed on November 30, 2018
  5. ↑ Club: Courage according to the Chaos sports magazine Kicker, September 30, 2014, accessed on September 30, 2014
  6. ↑ UPDATE: Scoop transfer fee at 5 million plus bonuses . Reviersport, January 7, 2016
  7. ↑ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV (Ed.): Medical check passed: Schöpf is Schalke. In: FC Schalke 04 (schalke04.de). January 9, 2016, accessed January 9, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Injury confirmed: That's how long Schöpf is out. In: spox.com . May 2, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017 .
  9. ↑ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV (Ed.): Alessandro Schöpf extends contract early until June 30, 2021. In: FC Schalke 04 (schalke04.de). February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Match report and dates on the ÖFB website, accessed on March 29, 2016
  11. ↑ A draw is not enough for ÖFB-U21 in Spain , derstandard.at, November 15, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2018
  12. ↑ a b In this statistic, Schöpf towers over the entire league , fussball.news from November 7, 2016, accessed on December 2, 2018
  13. ↑ WAZ : This is how Schalke's midfield engine Alessandro Schöpf fills his tank , from November 22, 2016, accessed on November 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Schöpf, Alessandro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schöpf, Alessandro André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Umhausen , Austria