Benjamin Schuessler

Benjamin Schuessler
Personnel
birthday	May 4th 1981
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  GDR
size	176 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	1. FC Magdeburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2000	1. FC Magdeburg	14 0(1)
2000-2003	Borussia Monchengladbach	0 0(0)
2000-2003	Borussia Mönchengladbach II	57 (15)
2003-2004	VfL Osnabrück	40 0(8)
2004-2008	SC Paderborn 07	119 (12)
2008-2010	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	25 0(0)
2010-2011	Holstein Kiel	18 0(1)
2011–2012	without a club
2012-2013	SSVg Velbert	24 0(2)
2013-2016	SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter	58 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Benjamin Schüßler (born May 4, 1981 in Magdeburg ) is a former German soccer player who last played from July 2013 to August 2016 for SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter in the Oberliga Niederrhein .

Career

Schüßler's career began in the youth of 1. FC Magdeburg . Here he went through all the youth teams. His greatest successes during this time were reaching the semi-finals of the German B-Youth Championship in 1998 and winning the DFB Junior Club Cup 1998/99 . In Magdeburg's 6-1 final victory over 1. FC Saarbrücken , Schüßler scored three goals. Although still eligible to play for the A-youth, he came in the second half of the Regionalliga 1999/2000 for his first appearance in the first men's team of the FCM and became an immediate regular player. He was soon discovered by the DFB for the German U21 national team . After the Magdeburg team failed to qualify for the new two-track regional league, the young talent was bought by Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2000 for a transfer fee of € 100,000 . However, Schüßler could not fulfill the hopes of the club due to some injuries. After two and a half years in the upper league reserve of the Bundesliga club, in which he had not made the breakthrough to a job with the professionals, he moved to the regional division VfL Osnabrück at the beginning of the second half of the season (02/03 season) . There he made the promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga in 2003, but he also had to experience the direct relegation in the following year with the club in the regional league .

For the 2004/05 season, Schüßler and his teammate Guido Spork moved within the Regionalliga Nord to SC Paderborn 07 . Although he was not able to secure a regular place with coach Pavel Dotchev right away , he rose to the 2nd division with the SCP after only one season. There, however, Schüßler convinced the new coach Jos Luhukay in the following year and managed to stay up in 2006 with the team as the best climber. In the 2007/08 season he rose with Paderborn as seventeenth in the table, then he moved to the second division promoted Rot-Weiß Oberhausen , where he was number 27.

On January 21, 2010 Benjamin Schüßler moved to the third division Holstein Kiel and signed a contract there until the summer of 2011. After only four appearances in the third division , he tore his cruciate ligament . He could no longer prevent the descent of Kiel. Until the end of the 2010/11 regional league season he was still part of the storks' squad. After a season without a club, he signed a contract with SSVg in 2012 . Velbert and moved to the Lower Rhine League club SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter in the following season 2013/14 . With SV Hönnepel-Niedermörmter, he became champions of the major league in 2014, but the club refrained from promotion. Two years later, Schüßler was promoted to assistant coach of the U23s of his former club Rot-Weiß Oberhausen, after he was already a fitness and athletic trainer there.

Web links

• Benjamin Schüßler in the weltfussball.de database
• Benjamin Schüßler in the FuPa.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pappas and Schüssler take over at RWO II ( Memento from January 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )