Christian Fuchs (soccer player)

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Christian Fuchs
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Christian Fuchs (2015)
Personnel
birthday April 7, 1986
place of birth Neunkirchen ,  Austria
size 186 cm
position left full-back
and midfielder
Juniors
Years station
1992-2001 SVg Pitten
2001-2003 1. Wiener Neustädter SC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2003 1. Wiener Neustädter SC 12 0(0)
2003-2008 SV Mattersburg 144 (11)
2008-2010 VfL Bochum 53 0(6)
2010-2011 1. FSV Mainz 05 31 0(0)
2011-2015 FC Schalke 04 99 0(4)
2015– Leicester City 104 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2003 Austria U17 21 0(6)
2003-2005 Austria U19 7 0(1)
2005-2006 Austria U21 10 0(3)
2005 Austria FT 1 0(0)
2006-2016 Austria 78 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 22, 2020

Christian Fuchs (born April 7, 1986 in Neunkirchen ) is an Austrian football player . He plays as a left full-back and midfielder for Leicester City , winning the English championship with the club in 2016. Fuchs had previously played 183 games in the German Bundesliga from 2008 to 2015. Fuchs was active in the Austrian national soccer team from 2006 to 2016 and took part in the 2016 European Championship in France. He was their team captain for five years .

Club career

Beginnings and time in Austria

Christian Fuchs began his career in youth at SVg Pitten Hamburger in Pitten , Lower Austria , where his father is honorary chairman. At the age of 15 he switched to the youth department of the 1. Wiener Neustädter SC , where he also played in the first team in 2002.

In the summer of 2003, Fuchs went to the Burgenland Bundesliga club SV Mattersburg . After he was first used in the amateur team, he played in the first team in 2004 and received his first professional contract. At SV Mattersburg, Fuchs mostly played in the left midfield and reached the ÖFB Cup final in 2006 and 2007 , which was lost to Vienna Austria .

VfL Bochum

After Fuchs had already been in conversation with the then German Bundesliga relegated Borussia Mönchengladbach in the summer of 2007 , but had not received a clearance, he moved to the German Bundesliga club VfL Bochum in 2008 . After lengthy negotiations, SV Mattersburg gave him approval on June 25, 2008 and Fuchs signed a contract that ran until 2011 with an option for a further year.

He made his debut in the German Bundesliga on August 16, 2008 at the season opener against Karlsruher SC . He played as a left full-back, a position that he should occupy more often at VfL Bochum. He scored his first Bundesliga goal on February 1, 2009 in the second leg against KSC, when he converted a free kick from about 17 meters away to make it 1-0 for VfL Bochum. After a knee injury , he dropped out from March 2009 for the remaining games of the season. He was the first Bundesliga player to score a goal with a free kick in three consecutive games since the statistics were recorded, but was relegated to the second division with VfL Bochum in 2010 .

1. FSV Mainz 05

In the summer of 2010, Fuchs moved to 1. FSV Mainz 05 , initially on loan ; the association received a purchase option. Mainz 05 used this at the end of the season and provided Fuchs with a contract that ran until June 30, 2015. In Mainz, like in Bochum, he was one of the top performers and contributed to his team's fifth place in the table, the Mainz team's best position in the Bundesliga to date. Fuchs was appointed to the kicker eleven of the first half of the season.

FC Schalke 04

Christian Fuchs executing a free kick

In the summer break of 2011, Fuchs moved to FC Schalke 04 despite the purchase option used by Mainz 05 . In his first competitive game for Schalke, he and his team won the DFL Supercup with a win over Borussia Dortmund . He scored his first Bundesliga goal for Schalke on August 21, 2011 (3rd matchday) in a 4-2 win in the away game against his former club Mainz 05. At the end of the season, four goals and 15 assists were recorded across all competitions.

In the following season he kept his regular place on the left defensive side. In the group game in the Champions League against Olympiacos Piraeus , he scored his first Champions League goal and secured his club on the penultimate match day of the group stage a place in the round of 16. At the beginning of the second half of the season he lost his regular place on the left side of defense to Sead Kolašinac , so he often had to be satisfied with short appearances.

During the 2013/14 season, Fuchs was preferred as a left-back, but also in the left and attacking midfield. Due to recurring knee problems, however, he missed some games of the round trip and often came only to short appearances. After his last appearance on the 24th match day at the home game against TSG Hoffenheim , he underwent an operation on the lateral meniscus of his right knee on March 11, 2014 and was out until the end of the season. His contract with Schalke 04 expired at the end of the 2014/15 season.

Leicester City

For the 2015/16 season he was signed by the English first division team Leicester City , where he received a three-year contract. In his first season he secured the league title with the team on the third last match day. For Fuchs it was the first championship win in his career; he was involved with five assists.

National team

In 2002, Fuchs was called up for the first time in the U-17 national team, for which he scored six goals in 24 games and came third at the 2003 European Championship in Portugal.

In early 2006 he was called up for the first time by the Austrian team boss Josef Hickersberger in a team camp of the Austrian national soccer team and made his debut for the national team on May 23, 2006 in a friendly against Croatia . He was in the Austrian squad for the 2008 European Championship . He was not used in the first two games against Croatia and Poland. Fuchs was only in the starting line-up in the decider against Germany. In November 2010 he scored his first goal for the national team with a long shot to equalize in the 1: 2 defeat at the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna in the friendly against Greece .

Fuchs was part of the Austrian squad at the 2016 European Championships . As team captain, he played all three group games over the full playing time. After the preliminary round, the team was eliminated as bottom of the table. Fuchs then resigned from the national team.

Style of play

Fuchs interprets his full-back role more offensively. His strengths lie in moving forward and in preparing dangerous goal area scenes. He is also known for his wide, flank-like throw-ins .

Private

In 2007, Fuchs married his long-time girlfriend, from whom he divorced at the end of 2012. In 2014 he married an American event manager who lives in New York City with their son, who was born in 2015 .

In 2014, Fuchs founded the Fox Soccer Academy , a soccer school with locations in the United Kingdom, New York and Austria.

titles and achievements

society

Web links

Commons : Christian Fuchs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the association ( memento of April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 4, 2015
  2. ↑ Christian Fuchs moves to Bochum (June 25, 2008)
  3. ^ Fuchs transfer under one roof
  4. ↑ kicker.de: Match report of the game on kicker.de
  5. ↑ FSV Mainz 05 brings Christian Fuchs as the new left-back ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Allgemeine-zeitung.de
  6. ↑ Confirmation of the contract extension by Mainz
  7. ↑ Kagawa leads the top eleven
  8. ↑ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 e. V. (Ed.): Left-back Christian Fuchs receives a four-year contract until 2015. In: FC Schalke 04 (schalke04.de). June 6, 2011, archived from the original on June 9, 2011 ; Retrieved January 5, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Performance data Christian Fuchs season 2011/2012
  10. ↑ Fuchs shoots Schalke into the last sixteen
  11. ↑ Christian Fuchs successfully operated on his knee On: schalke04.de, March 12, 2014
  12. ↑ Tranquillo Barnetta and Christian Fuchs leave the S04 On: schalke04.de, May 28, 2015
  13. ^ Announcement on the Leicester City website , accessed June 3, 2015
  14. ↑ Christian Fuchs celebrates Leicester City's championship
  15. ↑ Trainer Marcel Koller relies on "tried and tested" - Austria with the full load of the Bundesliga (accessed on May 14, 2016)
  16. ↑ Fuchs new ÖFB captain
  17. ↑ Christian Fuchs ends team career oefb.at, accessed on June 29, 2016
  18. ↑ Christian Fuchs: stormy full-back ( memento from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). VfB Stuttgart website. Article dated August 3, 2011.
  19. ↑ Timo Jankowski: Match plan football: With the right tactics for success, p. 173. Meyer & Meyer Verlag 2015, ISBN 3898999092 . ( Preview on Google Books).
  20. ↑ One hit was enough for a second test victory - prelude at the registry office , accessed on October 14, 2015
  21. ↑ The “Capitano” got divorced , accessed on October 14, 2015
  22. ↑ This is how the team captain's marriage fell apart , accessed on October 14, 2015
  23. ^ A b Leicester City Defender Christian Fuchs Scores a $ 2.65M Townhouse , The New York Observer . Retrieved May 4, 2017
  24. ↑ No concrete ideas yet , accessed on October 14, 2015
  25. ↑ ÖFB team captain Fuchs is dad , accessed on October 14, 2015
  26. ^ Fox Soccer Academy US I ABOUT. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen , Austria