Andreas Luthe

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Andreas Luthe
Personnel
birthday March 10, 1987
place of birth Velbert ,  Germany
size 195 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1994-1997 SuS Niederbonsfeld
1997-2001 Borussia Velbert
2001-2006 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2014 VfL Bochum II 76 (0)
2009-2016 VfL Bochum 157 (0)
2016-2020 FC Augsburg 30 (0)
2017 FC Augsburg II 1 (0)
2020– 1. FC Union Berlin 0 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 3, 2020

Andreas Luthe (born March 10, 1987 in Velbert ) is a German football player . The goalkeeper is under contract with Bundesliga club 1. FC Union Berlin .

youth

Andreas Luthe started playing soccer at SuS Niederbonsfeld when he was seven. He played there, among other things, as a central defender and right winger; only after his move to Borussia Velbert he was in goal. In 2001 he moved to the youth division at VfL Bochum .

Professional career

From 2006 he was in the second team at VfL Bochum. For the 2009/10 season he signed a professional contract there and initially belonged to the professional squad as the fourth goalkeeper.

After separating from coach Marcel Koller , Luthe was promoted to number two under interim coach Frank Heinemann . He played his first competitive game for the professionals on September 22, 2009 in the DFB Cup , when he replaced Philipp Heerwagen , who had broken his jaw. His Bundesliga debut followed on September 25, 2009 against 1. FC Nürnberg , against whom he did not concede a goal in his team's 1-0 victory. Two more missions followed, then he returned to the bench. At the end of the season, Bochum was relegated to the second division.

In the 2010/11 season, Luthe took over the position of regular keeper on the 5th matchday after Heerwagen had not been flawless a few times before. At the beginning of the 2012/13 season he was appointed the new captain of VfL.

After VfL Bochum started the 2015/16 season successfully with five wins, the successes decreased in the middle of the first half of the season, so that from the eleventh to the 16th matchday they could only get two points; Luthe never conceded a goal on these match days, but had to accept only 17 goals in a total of 16 league games. Bochum head coach Gertjan Verbeek reacted with changes in the team and took Luthe out of the starting line-up for the game on December 6, 2015 (17th matchday) against 1. FC Heidenheim by giving Manuel Riemann the preference in goal. Luthe responded to this decision the day before the game with criticism, which he publicly expressed on Facebook . He explained that he was "according to kicker online one of the best-rated players of the entire second division season" and "made 16 league games without any serious mistakes". The reason for his removal from the starting line-up in the form in which it happened did not "come close to satisfying" him. Despite this development, he thanked Verbeek in his publication for having "made him a better and more efficient goalkeeper" since he took over as coach in Bochum. Luthe's statement was deleted after a short time. After he was still on the bench against Heidenheim, the club declared on December 8, 2015 that Luthe would be given a “pause for thought” that would free him from playing and training up to and including January 3, 2016. Sports director Christian Hochstätter said that this gave Luthe the opportunity "to process the incident of the past week appropriately". Luthe accepted this decision and regretted the timing of his post on Facebook. He also admitted that he had underestimated the impact and extent of his statement.

For the 2016/17 season , Luthe moved to Bundesliga club FC Augsburg , with whom he received a contract valid until 2020. There he made his competitive debut in the 1-1 draw against Borussia Dortmund on May 13, 2017, the 33rd match day, after regular goalkeeper Marwin Hitz was unable to play with hip problems. As a result, Luthe was still Hitz's representative and moved firmly into the goal after his change in summer 2018. In the second half of the 2018/19 season , in which Augsburg was in a relegation battle, the keeper lost his place as number 1 to Gregor Kobel , who was on loan in the winter and whom he only represented twice in the end of the season due to an injury. In summer 2019, newcomer Tomáš Koubek received the trust of head coach Schmidt . However, the Czech often made mistakes, which ultimately led Schmidt and his successor Herrlich to back to Luthe at the beginning of March 2020.

Since Koubek had a long-term contract and Rafał Gikiewicz had signed another goalkeeper, Luthe switched to Bundesliga rivals 1. FC Union Berlin at the beginning of August 2020 as the designated successor to Gikiewicz .

Others

Luthe has been a member of the players' union of the Association of Contract Soccer Players (VdV) since June 30, 2015 .

On July 1, 2020, Luthe announced its future collaboration with the goalkeeper glove startup Catch & Keep Goalkeeper Gloves.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ My first place , sus-niederbonsfeld.de
  2. ↑ Does the army car have to make way for Luthe now? , MSN Sports, September 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ Andreas Luthe new captain ( memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), VfL Bochum website, June 20, 2012, viewed on July 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b c d e VfL keeper Luthe doesn't play and causes trouble ( Memento from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); ruhrnachrichten.de, published on December 6, 2015, as of December 8, 2015, accessed on December 10, 2015
  5. ↑ a b pause for thought for Andreas Luthe ( Memento from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); vfl-bochum.de, December 8, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015
  6. ↑ Changes in the goalkeeper trio , website of FC Augsburg, accessed on May 16, 2016
  7. ↑ Finnbogason's hit is not enough for the FCA , match report on kicker.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ Andreas Luthe comes from Augsburg , fc-union-berlin.de, accessed on August 3, 2020
  9. ↑ spielergewerkschaft.de: Spielerrat; accessed September 25, 2015
  10. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGF59KlRrU/?igshid=j0oe5dr4s6jr
personal data
SURNAME Luthe, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Velbert , Germany