Alex Meier

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Alex Meier
Alexander Meier.jpg
Photo taken in 2015
Personnel
Surname Alexander Meier
birthday 17th January 1983
place of birth Buchholz in the Nordheide ,  Germany
size 196 cm
position Sturm , attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
1988-1989 JSG rose garden
1989-1990 TuS Nenndorf
1990-1995 TSV Buchholz 08
1995-1998 Hamburger SV
1998-1999 MSV Hamburg
1999-2001 Hamburger SV
2001-2002 FC St. Pauli
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2002 FC St. Pauli amateurs 11 00(0)
2002-2003 FC St. Pauli 25 00(7)
2003-2004 Hamburger SV 4 00(0)
2004 Hamburger SV amateurs 6 00(0)
2004-2018 Eintracht Frankfurt 336 (119)
2019 FC St. Pauli 16 00(6)
2019-2020 Western Sydney Wanderers 12 00(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2004 Germany U20 7 00(2)
2002-2005 Team 2006 2 00(1)
2006 Germany U21 2 00(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander "Alex" Meier (born January 17, 1983 in Buchholz in the north heath ) is a former German soccer player and today's coach . The headed striker , who could also be used in attacking midfield , played most of his professional career at Eintracht Frankfurt . He was promoted to the Bundesliga twice with Hessen and won the DFB Cup in 2018 . Meier was most recently under contract with the Western Sydney Wanderers in Australia .

For the 2020/21 season he will start in the Eintracht youth department as assistant coach of the U16s.

Player career

societies

1988–2004: youth and first professional years in Hamburg

Born and raised in Buchholz in the Nordheide , Meier played in his youth at several clubs in the Hamburg area , including five years at TSV Buchholz 08 . At the age of twelve he moved to the youth department of Hamburger SV . He returned to this after a year at MSV Hamburg .

For the 2001/02 season Meier moved to FC St. Pauli , for which he came on April 19, 2002 (32nd matchday) in a 0-4 defeat in the Hamburg city derby against Hamburger SV for his first appearance in the Bundesliga . At the end of the season St. Pauli was relegated from bottom of the table in the 2nd Bundesliga . In the 2002/03 season Meier became a regular player and scored seven goals in 23 games. After the relegation of FC St. Pauli to the Regionalliga Nord , he returned to Hamburger SV, but was only used in four games in the 2003/04 season .

2004–2018: Legend at Eintracht Frankfurt

Meier before a friendly against Zenit Saint Petersburg (2017)

In 2004, Meier was loaned to Eintracht Frankfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga, where he fought for a regular place and contributed to promotion with his goals towards the end of the season. At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was finally contractually bound to the Frankfurt team. With Frankfurter Eintracht he played either against relegation or in midfield until 2011, with the SGE in the first year after promotion to the Bundesliga, he reached the final in the DFB Cup , in which the Hessians beat FC Bayern 0-1 Munich lost. After Eintracht had been on a European Cup place at the winter break of the 2010/11 season, they unexpectedly rose to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season. In the 2011/12 season Meier came on 31 league appearances for the Frankfurt team and scored 17 goals, making him top scorer in the second division together with Nick Proschwitz and Olivier Occéan . At this time, the nickname “ football god ” developed among the Frankfurt supporters , which has been chanted regularly since the following season at the latest and celebrated at goals of the longest- serving player since the departure of Oka Nikolov . In the Bundesliga season 2012/13 he scored 16 goals and participated in Eintracht's qualification for the Europa League , in which he scored seven goals in nine games in the following season and failed with the Frankfurt team in the sixteenth-finals at FC Porto . On April 14, 2015, Meier had an operation on the patellar tendon and was no longer available to Eintracht until the end of the current season. With 19 goals in 26 appearances, he was still the top scorer in the Bundesliga in the 2014/15 season .

Before the 2015/16 season , Meier was appointed team captain. On his comeback on September 12, 2015, he scored three goals in a Bundesliga game for the first time in a 6-2 home win against 1. FC Köln .

During the summer vacation after the 2016/17 season, Meier injured his foot while jogging and was operated on three times. In addition, Meier fell ill with borreliosis during the same period . His only appearance in the following season was only on the penultimate matchday, on May 5, 2018, against Hamburger SV . Meier came on in the 86th minute and scored the 3-0 final score in stoppage time. In May 2018 he won the DFB Cup with Eintracht after a 3-1 final victory against FC Bayern Munich , but was not in the final squad of Frankfurt. On May 28, 2018, the club's management announced that they did not want to extend the contract, which expired on June 30, 2018, so that Meier won the awards after 14 years, 379 competitive appearances with 137 goals and 55 assists, two promotions, a cup win and two other finals retired from the team squad as the top scorer of the 2nd Bundesliga and the 1st Bundesliga as well as two European Cup appearances as a club legend.

2019: return to FC St. Pauli

After six months without a club, in which he u. a. at the Austrian first division club FC Admira Wacker Mödling , Meier returned to FC St. Pauli at the beginning of January 2019 . He received a contract until the end of the 2018/19 season and replaced the long-term injured Henk Veerman . Meier scored 6 goals in 16 second division appearances under head coach Markus Kauczinski and Jos Luhukay , including a brace in his second game against 1. FC Union Berlin . After the end of the season he left the club when his contract ended.

2019–2020: Career finale in Australia

At the end of September 2019, Meier joined the Western Sydney Wanderers . He signed a contract with the Australian first division club until the end of the 2019/20 season and met his former Frankfurt teammate Pirmin Schwegler and the German head coach Markus Babbel . In his second outing, the 2-1 at Melbourne Victory , Meier, who was in the starting eleven, made it 2-0. After completing twelve league games (one goal, one assist), the attacker prematurely terminated his contract at the eighth of the table in mid-January 2020 and returned to Germany. At the end of January 2020, Meier announced the end of his active career.

National team

Meier played seven times for the German U20 national team between August 2002 and February 2004 (two goals).

Meier came on December 17, 2002 in the 3: 3 against Scotland for his first of two appearances for the team in 2006 , a perspective team formed by the DFB . In the 60th minute, he scored the goal for a 2-1 lead. On May 17, 2006, he made his debut in a 2-2 draw against the Netherlands for the German U21 national team . At the U21 European Championship in Portugal in 2006 he was part of the German team and came in the 0-3 defeat against France in the second group game for his second and last appearance in the U21 selection.

He never played a game for the senior national team . Together with Lothar Kobluhn von Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , who became top scorer in 1971 , he is one of only two top scorer in the Bundesliga with German nationality who never played for the German national team.

successes

Eintracht Frankfurt

Personal awards

Coaching career

For the 2020/21 season, Meier will take over the U16 team from Eintracht Frankfurt as assistant coach at Helge Rasche's side .

Web links

Commons : Alex Meier  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hamburger Sport-Verein eV (Ed.): Alex Meier: Knipser with Hamburg past. (No longer available online.) In: HSV.de. January 30, 2013, archived from the original on April 11, 2015 ; Retrieved April 5, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Linnenbrügger and Simon Braasch: This is where the HSV fright speaks. In: Hamburger Morgenpost. Morgenpost Verlag GmbH, February 2, 2013, accessed on April 5, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Marc Heinrich: On the way to the "eternal" Meier. In: FAZ.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, March 7, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Patrick Reichardt: Eintracht Frankfurt's Alex Meier: "I'm too old for the national team". In: Goal.com . September 25, 2012, accessed January 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Peter Hess: Football god with a sense of reality. In: FAZ.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, December 3, 2014, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Out of season for Alex Meier. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015 ; accessed on February 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ "An honor": Meier leads Eintracht to the field. kicker, July 24, 2015, accessed on July 25, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Return to operations: Meier back on the training ground. In: t-online.de . dpa, January 27, 2018, accessed on January 1, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Football icon in waiting. FAZ, April 19, 2020, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Ingo Durstewitz: Alex Meier has not yet put professional football to an end . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 27, 2018, accessed December 30, 2018.
  11. ↑ FC St. Pauli signs Alexander Meier , fcstpauli.com, accessed on January 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Alex Meier is leaving FC St. Pauli , fcstpauli.com, May 23, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ Wanderers secure German ace , wswanderersfc.com.au, September 20, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019.
  14. ↑ Match report Melbourne Victory - Western Sydney Wanderers , transfermarkt.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
  15. ↑ Meier departs Wanderers , wswanderersfc.com, accessed on January 17, 2020 (English)
  16. ↑ Eintracht legend Meier ends professional career: “That's it, I'll stop!” , Transfermarkt.de, accessed on January 28, 2020
  17. ↑ Alex Meier in the data center of the German Football Association, accessed on March 2, 2019
  18. ↑ Rasche takes over U16, Meier becomes assistant trainer , nachwuchs.eintracht.de from June 22, 2020, accessed on June 22, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meier, Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchholz in the Nordheide , Germany