Breel Embolo

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Breel Embolo
2018-08-17 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 vs. FC Schalke 04 (DFB Cup) by Sandro Halank – 066.jpg
Breel Embolo (2018)
Personnel
Surname Breel Donald Embolo
birthday February 14, 1997
place of birth Yaoundé ,  Cameroon
Size 185 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2006-2008 FC Nordstern Basel
2008-2010 BSC Old Boys Basel
2010-2011 FC Basel
2011 BSC Old Boys Basel
2011-2014 FC Basel
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014-2016 FC Basel 61 (21)
2016-2019 FC Schalke 04 48 (10)
2017 FC Schalke 04 II 2 0(0)
2019– Borussia Monchengladbach 28 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012 Switzerland U16 4 0(1)
2014-2015 Switzerland U20 3 0(0)
2014-2015 Switzerland U21 4 0(0)
2015– Switzerland 36 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of October 15, 2019

Breel Donald Embolo (born February 14, 1997 in Yaoundé , Cameroon ) is a Swiss football player with Cameroonian roots. The striker is under contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach and plays for the Swiss national team .

Life

Embolo was born in 1997 in the Cameroonian capital Yaoundé . His mother settled in Basel with her two sons , as there was no prospect for the family in Cameroon. In December 2014, two months before his 18th birthday, Embolo was naturalized and received a Swiss passport . At the end of June 2018 he became the father of a daughter.

Career

society

Beginnings in Switzerland

Embolo began his football career in 2006 with the Basel quarter club Nordstern and in 2008 he moved to BSC Old Boys Basel . In 2010 he joined FC Basel and played in the second U-18 youth team until he was substituted on for the first time in a professional game on March 13, 2014 in the Europa League game against FC Red Bull Salzburg due to various injury-related losses in the regular squad . A few days later, on March 16, 2014, he made his first team league debut when he came into the game in the 85th minute of the home game at St. Jakob-Park against FC Aarau . Just four minutes after being substituted on, he scored his first goal to make it 5-0.

The 2014/15 season was very successful for Embolo and FC Basel. The team finished the Swiss championship in 2014/15 for the 18th time as champions with twelve points ahead of second-placed BSC Young Boys and 25 points ahead of third-placed FC Zurich . Basel was in the final of the Swiss Cup 2014/15 , which was lost 3-0 against FC Sion . Embolo was suspended due to two yellow cards . In the 2014/15 Champions League season , Basel advanced to the round of 16. During the 2014/15 season, FC Basel played a total of 65 games (36 championship, six cup, eight Champions League and 15 test games). Under coach Paulo Sousa , Embolo had a total of 54 appearances, including 27 in the Super League, five in the Cup, eight in the Champions League and 14 in friendly matches. He scored 18 goals, five of them in the Super League, six in the Cup and one each in the Champions League and one in the friendly matches.

Embolo's contract was extended to June 30, 2019 on his 18th birthday. Under coach Urs Fischer , Embolo won the championship title for the third time with FCB in the 2015/16 season . For the club it was the seventh title in a row and the 19th title in the club's history.

Change to FC Schalke 04

For the 2016/17 season , Embolo moved to the Bundesliga for FC Schalke 04 , with whom he received a five-year contract dated June 30, 2021. The parties agreed not to disclose the transfer fee, but Embolo is considered the most expensive purchase in Schalke's history - the expectations placed on him were correspondingly high. In his first competitive game for Schalke 04, the DFB Cup game on August 20, 2016 against FC 08 Villingen , he scored a goal to make it 4-1. On the 6th day of the Bundesliga, he scored his first two Bundesliga goals in a 4-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach and thus contributed to the first three points of the season for Schalke. In the following game at FC Augsburg he suffered a complicated fracture of the ankle and a broken fibula due to a rude foul by defender Konstantinos Stafylidis . A bone edema extended his downtime in addition. As a result, he was out for the rest of the season. It was even feared that Embolo would no longer be able to continue his career at all - but this was only discussed in public after his comeback.

In preparation for the 2017/18 season, Embolo made his comeback when he came on as a substitute in a friendly against Neftchi Baku . Since his coach Domenico Tedesco did not trust him to play in the Bundesliga, Embolo played two games for the U23 team at his own request. So he made his comeback in the league against SV Lippstadt 08 on August 20, 2017 at the league game. In the Bundesliga, he was used for the first time after his injury on September 16, 2017 (4th match day) at the guest game in Bremen. Embolo ended the season with 21 appearances, many of which did not go the full distance. He scored three goals.

Although he missed twelve games due to a broken foot in the following season 2018/19 , he played 20 games and scored five goals. He was also on the field five times in the Champions League and scored one goal.

Change to Mönchengladbach

Despite the very successful 2018/19 season for him, Breel Embolo was looking for a new start and moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach within the Bundesliga for the 2019/20 season , where he signed a contract until 2023. He played his first game for the new club in the first round of the DFB Cup against SV Sandhausen when he was substituted on at half time. He was also able to show himself directly in the Bundesliga and played all games until he sustained a muscle injury on matchday nine, which slowed him down for two games. Embolo scored his first goal for Borussia Mönchengladbach on matchday two in a 3-1 win against 1. FSV Mainz 05 .

National team

In 2012, when he was not yet a Swiss citizen, Embolo made four appearances for the U-16 team of the Swiss Football Association and scored one goal. On May 22, 2014, he made his first appearance for the U-21s in the 2-0 win against Denmark . On September 4, 2014, he made his debut in the U-20 team in a friendly against Poland , which ended 1-1.

Until the naturalization in December 2014 , Embolo could only be used in friendly matches. On December 15, 2014, he decided for the Swiss national football team after the Cameroonian national association around the coach Volker Finke had advertised him. On October 9, 2015, he scored his first international goal for the Swiss national football team in the European Championship qualifier against San Marino.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was the youngest player in a country to join the Swiss squad. In the first two games (against Albania and Romania) he was substituted in in the final third, against France he was on the starting line-up for the first time. In the round of 16 against Poland, he was substituted on in the 58th minute. The team lost in the penalty shootout and was eliminated.

At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, he was part of the Swiss squad . He was used in all games and was eliminated with the team in the second round.

Even after the World Cup, Embolo was part of the national team when he was not injured. He played six games from the start in the successful qualification for the 2020 European Football Championship . He missed the last two games because of a muscle injury.

titles and achievements

FC Basel

Web links

Commons : Breel Embolo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel Waldis: Breel Embolo is Swiss . TagesWoche , December 12, 2014, accessed October 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ Breel Embolo became a father! Retrieved June 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Match statistics on transfermarkt.ch
  4. ↑ Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015. SFV, 2015, accessed June 7, 2015 .
  5. ↑ For all results see here: en: 2014–15 FC Basel season .
  6. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
  7. ↑ FCB extends contracts with Degen and Embolo , FC Basel press release from November 23, 2014.
  8. ↑ Casper Marti: It is done! FCB are champions for the 19th time. FC Basel 1893, 2016, accessed April 30, 2016 .
  9. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (ed.): Breel Embolo changes to FC Schalke 04. In: FC Basel. June 26, 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ FC Schalke 04: S04 sign Breel Embolo , June 26, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ Record amount for Embolo. New Zürcher Zeitung, June 26, 2016
  12. ↑ Match report on schalke04.de, accessed on August 29, 2016
  13. ^ Embolo worse injured , Sport 1, October 16, 2016
  14. ↑ Simon Zimmermann: Record purchase Breel Embolo continues to collect match practice in the Schalke U23 . 90min, August 27, 2017
  15. ↑ Robin Haack: Schalke-Juwel Breel Embolo: The return of the ray man . goal.com, September 30, 2017
  16. ↑ Toni Lieto: Embolo comeback in adverse conditions . Kicker, July 26, 2017
  17. ↑ Statistics on schalke04.de
  18. ↑ Breel Embolo: “I had to start again from scratch, learn to walk” . Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 3, 2017
  19. ↑ U23: Points sharing with SV Lippstadt ( Memento from August 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  20. ↑ Borussia signs Breel Embolo from Schalke 04 borussia.de, on June 28, 2019, accessed on June 28, 2019
  21. ↑ Switzerland or Cameroon? Battle for Embolo , article from October 3, 2014 at Blick.ch .
  22. Jump up ↑ For free? FCB star Embolo receives the Swiss passport! , Article from December 12, 2014 at Blick.ch.
  23. ↑ It's fixed! Embolo plays for Switzerland! , Article from December 15, 2014 at Blick.ch .
  24. ↑ Breel Embolo opts for Swiss nationality , article from December 15, 2014 at 20min.ch .
  25. ↑ Switzerland instead Cameroon: Embolo opts for Switzerland , articles of 15 December 2014. NZZ.ch .
personal data
SURNAME Embolo, Breel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Embolo, Breel Donald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaoundé , Cameroon