Bastian Oczipka

Bastian Oczipka
Bastian Oczipka (2017)
Personnel
birthday	January 12, 1989
place of birth	Bergisch Gladbach ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	External defense
Juniors
Years	station
1994-1997	SV blue and white hand
1997-1999	SSG Bergisch Gladbach
1999-2008	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	2 (0)
2008-2009	→  Hansa Rostock  (loan)	42 (0)
2008	→  Hansa Rostock II  (loan)	1 (0)
2010-2011	→  FC St. Pauli  (loan)	36 (1)
2011–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	9 (0)
2012-2017	Eintracht Frankfurt	146 (2)
2017–	FC Schalke 04	77 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008	Germany U-19	2 (0)
2008-2009	Germany U-20	5 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 24, 2020

Bastian Oczipka (born January 12, 1989 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German football player . The full-back is under contract with Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 .

Career

Youth in the Rhineland

Oczipka, who plays in defense on the left wing, whose grandparents come from Upper Silesia , went through the youth teams of SV Blau-Weiß Hand and SSG Bergisch Gladbach in his hometown before joining the youth department of Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 1999 .

As an A-youth , Oczipka won the U-19 Bundesliga championship in 2006/07 with Leverkusen under coach Thomas Hörster . In the following season 2007/08 he played a further 24 games for Leverkusen in the U-19 Bundesliga, but only finished third with the team in the final table of their season and thus missed the final round, but won the DFB Junior Club Cup 2007 / 08 in the final against Borussia Mönchengladbach .

For the U-19 national team coached by Horst Hrubesch , he completed his first two appearances at the U-19 European Championship in 2008 with substitutions in the preliminary round against Hungary and in the final against Italy , which Germany won 3-1.

Loan player in Rostock

For the 2008/09 season , Leverkusen tied Oczipka to the club initially with a contract term until 2012 and deployed him in the second substitute trained by Ulf Kirsten , who competed in the fourth-class regional league. After two appearances at the start of the season, however, Oczipka was sold to the second division team F.C. Hansa Rostock on loan, who in 2008/09 aimed for a direct return to the Bundesliga under Frank Pagelsdorf . In the run-up to this transfer, Rostock had tried to get Leverkusen winger player Sascha Dum signed , but this did not materialize.

First Oczipka ran in Rostock for the second representation in the regional league trained by Thomas Finck and made her debut on September 3, 2008 against Austria for the U-20 national team now trained by Horst Hrubesch . In the same month Oczipka made his first competitive appearances for the licensed team of FC Hansa, when he was used in the second round of the DFB Cup 2008/09 against Frankfurt and on the following sixth matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga against St. Pauli . Thereupon Oczipka established himself as a regular player in Hansa's defense and completed a total of 29 missions during the season, with Rostock playing against relegation to the 3rd division despite the initially targeted promotion . In the following season 2009/10 Oczipka ran in another 13 games for Rostock, but was no longer used from the 15th matchday due to competition from Bradley Carnell . Oczipka's loan contract was then terminated during the winter break, for which Hansa received compensation of 24,000 euros.

Loan player at St. Pauli

Oczipka now instead joined league rivals FC St. Pauli , who signed a loan agreement with Leverkusen for a year and a half. For St. Pauli Oczipka initially completed 16 second division appearances, with which he contributed to Hamburg's promotion to the Bundesliga. He also scored his first goal in a professional league on March 14, 2010 in the home game against Oberhausen . In the first division season 2010/11 Oczipka then played 20 missions for the club playing against relegation until he suffered a broken ankle in the game against Dortmund in February 2011 and was canceled for the rest of the season.

Return to Leverkusen

Although St. Pauli showed interest in a further commitment beyond the loan period, Oczipka returned to Leverkusen in summer 2011. However, he only made nine Bundesliga appearances and three Champions League appearances for Bayer in the 2011/12 season .

Eintracht Frankfurt

In the summer break of 2012, Oczipka moved to the newly promoted Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt. The parties have agreed not to disclose the transfer fee. In his first season for Hessen he played 33 games in which he prepared nine goals and qualified with the team in sixth place for the European Cup. In March 2015, Oczipka extended his contract with Eintracht Frankfurt for another three years until June 30, 2018. On May 9, 2015, Oczipka scored his first Bundesliga goal with a direct free kick to take a 1-0 lead in a 3-1 win at home against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim .

FC Schalke 04

In the summer of 2017, Oczipka moved to FC Schalke 04 and received a contract until June 30, 2020. He made his Bundesliga debut for Schalke on August 19, 2017 (1st matchday). In his first season, the defender was runner-up with the Royal Blues and qualified for the Champions League , where he was eliminated with Schalke in the round of 16 against Manchester City . The regular player, who only missed several games due to a groin operation, received a contract extension until June 2023 in mid-January 2020.

Web links

Commons : Bastian Oczipka  - collection of images

• Bastian Oczipka in the database of the German Football Association
• Bastian Oczipka in the weltfussball.de database
• Bastian Oczipka in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nils Weber, Buttje Rosenfeld: Völler: That's why we're bringing Oczipka back. In: MoPo.de . April 8, 2011, archived from the original on April 12, 2011 ; accessed on April 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt sign Leverkusen Oczipka. In: transfermarkt . June 5, 2012, Retrieved June 5, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Contract until 2020: Bastian Oczipka changes to FC Schalke 04. In: schalke04.de. July 15, 2017, archived from the original on July 18, 2017 ; accessed on July 15, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Schalke extends contract with Oczipka until 2023 , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on January 18, 2020