Benjamin Auer
| Benjamin Auer | ||
 Benjamin Auer, 2010
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | January 11, 1981 | |
| place of birth | Landau , Germany | |
| size | 186 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -1988 | ASV 1950 Landau | |
| 1988-1995 | FSV 1920 Offenbach | |
| 1995-1999 | 1. FC K'lautern | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1999-2000 | Karlsruher SC | 14 (1) |
| 1999-2000 | Karlsruher SC II | 7 (4) |
| 2000-2002 | Borussia M'gladbach | 25 (3) |
| 2000-2002 | Borussia M'gladbach II | 17 (8) |
| 2002-2006 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | 116 (30) |
| 2006-2008 | VfL Bochum | 19 (5) |
| 2007 | → 1. FC K'lautern (loan) | 7 (0) |
| 2008–2012 | Alemannia Aachen | 121 (56) |
| 2015-2017 | FK Pirmasens | 66 (20) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2001 | Germany U-20 | 1 (0) |
| 2002-2004 | Germany U-21 | 23 (15) |
| 2004-2005 | Team 2006 | 3 (4) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Benjamin Auer (born January 11, 1981 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a former German soccer player .
Life
Benjamin Auer attended the Max Slevogt Gymnasium in his hometown , graduated from high school there and studied fitness economics alongside his career as a footballer. The diploma course was followed by a master’s course in health management.
Career
At the time of the U-20 World Cup in Argentina in 2001, when he was the fourth top scorer of the tournament behind Javier Saviola , Adriano and Djibril Cissé , Auer was considered the greatest German storm talent. At the time, he and Marcel Ketelaer were among the young players who were to form the framework of a new Gladbach team. A cruciate ligament tear in the quarter-finals forced the Borussia Mönchengladbach striker to take a long break. At this point, Auer had played 31 second division games for Borussia and previously Karlsruher SC and scored three goals.
After his recovery, the Gladbach team sporadically used the striker in the second half of the 2001/02 Bundesliga season. Due to differences with Gladbach's coach Hans Meyer , Auer switched to the second division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 shortly after the start of the following season .
In Mainz, Auer was unable to meet the high expectations for a long time. Only in the tenth game did the striker score the first goal. The fact that he still scored ten times in his debut season was also due to the last match day, when Mainz 05 narrowly failed to get promoted: Auer scored all four Mainz goals in the 4-1 win at Eintracht Braunschweig . He developed into a crowd favorite in Mainz. In the two following years (one in the second, one in the first Bundesliga) Auer remained a regular player, but still only scored every five or six games. It was only in the first half of the 2005/06 season that the "talent in the final stage" (Auer about himself) indicated a goal quota that came close to his record in the junior national teams. In the second half of the season Auer could not keep this cut.
In the 2006 summer break, Auer moved to Bundesliga promoted VfL Bochum on a free transfer . Due to a viral illness and some injuries, he was unable to gain a foothold in Bochum. The duration of the illness dragged on, and to this day it is not known exactly what illness it was. After recovering, Auer was unable to prevail in Bochum due to the lack of training, lack of stamina and lack of match practice. It was enough for two short assignments at the end of the season. In order to gain match practice, he was loaned to 1. FC Kaiserslautern during the winter break , but the bad luck persecuted him there too: Auer injured his knee again during a test match in Spain and was out for a few weeks. It was only on the second match day that he could be used and made a good game against Karlsruher SC. However, a few relapses followed, which could probably be attributed to the illness in the summer. Since 2007 Auer has played again for VfL Bochum. With the beginning of the second half of the 2007/08 season he was back in the regular formation.
For the 2008/09 season Auer moved to TSV Alemannia Aachen . There he was in this season with 16 goals next to Cédric Makiadi and Marek Mintál top scorer of the 2nd Bundesliga. After Cristian Fiél's resignation as captain, coach Michael Krüger appointed him the new captain of Alemannia on February 6, 2010 . After the 2011/12 season, Auer left Alemannia after they were relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga and was without a club until the end of 2014. For the second half of the 2014/15 season he was committed by the southwest regional division FK Pirmasens . Due to an injury, he ended his career in Pirmasens in March 2017.
In the ranking of the most successful German U-21 goalscorers, Auer is third behind Pierre Littbarski (18) and Heiko Herrlich (17) with 15 goals. In a total of around 60 games for the various youth teams of the DFB, from the U-16 team to the 2006 team , Auer scored around 30 goals. In 87 Bundesliga games, he scored 21 times; he scored 74 goals in his 219 second division appearances.
Private
In Pirmasens , in Landau in the Palatinate and in Annweiler am Trifels , Auer runs three fitness studios that specialize in therapeutic muscle building. He is married and has two sons.
Web links
- Benjamin Auer in the database of weltfussball.de
- Benjamin Auer in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Benjamin Auer in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Benjamin Auer's profile on the Alemannia Aachen website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Speaker: Benjamin Auer from October 7, 2013, archive version accessed on November 5, 2018
- ^ Matthias Arnhold: Benjamin Auer - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. June 4, 2015. Accessed June 16, 2015.
- ↑ Alemannia Aachen : Auer becomes Alemanne ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 6, 2008
- ↑ Season statistics Torjäger 2. Bundesliga on kicker.de, accessed on August 13, 2012
- ^ Aachener Zeitung : Benjamin Auer is the new captain , February 6, 2010
- ^ Aachener Nachrichten : Alemannia: Ralf Aussem becomes a scaffolding builder , May 9, 2012
- ↑ Benny Auer: A striker waiting aachener-nachrichten.de from October 30, 2012, accessed on November 6, 2012
- ↑ FKP obliges Benjamin Auer fk-pirmasens.com, accessed on December 29, 2014
- ↑ kicker sportmagazin : Pirmasens: Auer ends his career , March 8, 2017
- ↑ Presentation on the Bundesliga website
- ^ Note in the report on Auer in: Echt-Das Stadionmagazin, issue 57 of April 20, 2013, p. 35
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Auer, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau , Germany |