Christian Gentner

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Christian Gentner
ChristianGentner VfB.jpg
in the jersey of VfB Stuttgart (2013)
Personnel
birthday August 14, 1985
place of birth Nürtingen ,  Germany
size 189 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1988-1998 TSV Beuren
1998-1999 VfL Kirchheim
1999-2004 VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2007 VfB Stuttgart Amateurs / II 30 0(6)
2004-2007 VfB Stuttgart 39 0(1)
2007-2010 VfL Wolfsburg 99 (11)
2010-2019 VfB Stuttgart 273 (37)
2019– 1. FC Union Berlin 31 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2006 Germany U20 14 0(3)
2005 Team 2006 2 0(0)
2009-2010 Germany 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 27, 2020

Christian Gentner (born August 14, 1985 in Nürtingen ) is a German soccer player . He is under contract with 1. FC Union Berlin .

Club career

Beginnings and VfB Stuttgart

Christian Gentner started playing football at TSV Beuren when he was three . Then he played for a year in the youth of VfL Kirchheim . In 1999 he moved to VfB Stuttgart , with whom the midfielder won the German A youth championship in 2003. For the regional league team of VfB he made his debut on the 1st match day of the 2004/05 regional league season when the winger came on as a substitute for Denis Berger in the 88th minute in the game against Sportfreunde Siegen . In the following game he was used from the start. In the course of the season he impressed with good performances, so that he was appointed to the Bundesliga squad by the then VfB coach Matthias Sammer . There he made his debut in the professional team on February 20, 2005. In the 1-0 win against Hertha BSC , Gentner came on in the 83rd minute for the then goal scorer Cacau . In the following season, the midfielder was definitely part of the professional squad.

He scored his first competitive goal for VfB Stuttgart in the 89th minute in the preliminary round of the UEFA Cup against the Slovenian club NK Domzale . Gentner scored his first league goal on matchday 33 of the 2005/06 season against his future employer VfL Wolfsburg with a 2-1 winner. In the summer of 2006, he extended his contract with VfB Stuttgart until 2010. In the 2006/07 season , he was just as often substituted on or off in the 15 games he played. At the end of the season he won the German championship with the team.

VfL Wolfsburg

In July 2007 he was loaned from VfB Stuttgart to VfL Wolfsburg . Under the former Stuttgart trainer Felix Magath , Gentner played in the regular team of the "Wolves". At the end of the season he and his team made it into the UEFA Cup and, with 5th place, the Wolfsburg-based team's best placement since they were in the league. In August 2008, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Wolfsburg announced that Gentner had been sold to Wolfsburg. Gentner justified his change with what he saw as a more promising perspective. No information was given about the transfer fee.

In the 2008/09 season Gentner was German champion for the second time. In addition to Marcel Schäfer and Andrea Barzagli , he was the only Wolfsburg player who was used in all league matches. With ten assists he was the second best preparer of his team behind Zvjezdan Misimović .

Return to VfB Stuttgart

Gentner (r.) In action (2013)

Gentner returned to VfB Stuttgart on July 1, 2010 after his contract in Wolfsburg had expired . On January 6, 2013, he reached an agreement with VfB on a contract extension and signed a contract that was valid until the end of June 2016 with the option for a further year.

After Serdar Tasci left the club on August 30, 2013, Gentner was appointed Stuttgart's new captain for the 2013/14 season by VfB head coach Thomas Schneider . On May 10, 2016, he extended his contract until 2019.

After being relegated to the Bundesliga in 2016, VfB managed to gain direct promotion as champions of the second division; As team captain, Gentner presented the “master rim”.

In the 2017/18 season , Gentner collided with Wolfsburg goalkeeper Koen Casteels in the game against VfL Wolfsburg on September 16, 2017 , who accidentally hit his head with his knee. Gentner remained unconscious after the collision and almost suffocated because his tongue sank back, which then blocked his airway. Stuttgart's team doctors, who ran to Gentner's court, although the game had not yet been interrupted, possibly prevented worse. Gentner suffered fractures of the eye socket, the upper jaw and the zygomatic bone. He therefore had to be operated on several times and was absent for around two months. There was no lasting damage to him. Casteels received no warning for boarding, as referee Guido Winkmann had rated it as an "unfortunate collision" and video referee Deniz Aytekin confirmed his opinion. Sky TV expert and ex-referee Markus Merk considered at least a yellow card to be necessary because Casteels had "used his knee as a weapon". The incident sparked a debate about the dangerous and unhealthy boarding of goalkeepers, as well as renewed debate about the effectiveness of the video evidence . In a few subsequent games, Gentner wore a protective mask made of “ carbon ”. In March 2019, Gentner told 11 Freunde magazine that after the accident he had forgotten that VfB Stuttgart had meanwhile been promoted to the 1st Bundesliga.

In the 2018/19 season , Gentner, still as team captain, was relegated to the second division again with VfB. Following the season he agreed with the club management not to extend his contract, which was running out at the end of the season; the midfielder played over 370 competitive games for the club.

1. FC Union Berlin

For the 2019/20 season, Gentner joined the Bundesliga promoted 1. FC Union Berlin for one season . On March 1, 2020, he played his 400th Bundesliga game against VfL Wolfsburg . He is the 67th Bundesliga player to reach this number. He extended his contract, as Union announced on July 3, 2020, without entering into the term.

National team

In September 2004 Gentner was nominated for the first time for the U20 national team , for which he played a total of 14 games and scored three goals. In 2005, Gentner played twice for the 2006 team , the DFB's perspective team for the 2006 World Cup . On May 19, 2009 he was nominated for the first time by national coach Joachim Loew for the A-national team of the DFB's Asia trip and on May 29, he had his first A-international appearance in the game against China . Three more missions in 2009 and one in August 2010 (against Denmark ) followed. After 2010, Gentner was no longer nominated for the national team.

titles and achievements

Gentner (left) together with Sascha Riether after winning the German championship in 2009 with VfL Wolfsburg

Title at a glance

Title by club

VfB Stuttgart (1999-2007)
VfL Wolfsburg (2007-2010)
VfB Stuttgart (since 2010)
Personal awards

family

Christian's younger brother Thomas was also active as a professional footballer. The eldest brother Michael is the sporting director of the youth performance center at VfB Stuttgart.

The brothers' father died on December 15, 2018, following the Bundesliga home game between VfB Stuttgart and Hertha BSC in the VIP area of ​​the stadium .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Back to the roots ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), www.vfb.de from October 10, 2012
  2. ↑ Kantersieg in Kirchheim ( Memento from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), www.vfb.de from July 9, 2011
  3. ↑ Match statistics VfB Stuttgart II - Sportfreunde Siegen 1: 0 (0: 0) from August 6, 2004 on fussballdaten.de
  4. ↑ Match statistics VfB Stuttgart - NK Domzale 2: 0 (1: 0) from September 15, 2005 ( Memento from June 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on fussballdaten.de
  5. ↑ Match statistics VfB Stuttgart - VfL Wolfsburg 2: 1 (1: 1) from May 6, 2006 on fussballdaten.de
  6. ↑ Finally to Wolfsburg  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from August 11, 2008 on vfb.de.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vfb.de  
  7. ↑ VfL Wolfsburg: Der Kader 2008/2009 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2009 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. on fussballdaten.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fussballdaten.de
  8. ↑ Christian Gentner is returning to VfB Stuttgart on January 8, 2010 from the VfL Wolfsburg press service
  9. ↑ Gentner returns on January 8, 2010 on vfb.de.
  10. ↑ Christian Gentner extended until 2016 ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from January 6, 2013 on vfb.de
  11. ↑ Important signals ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) VfB Stuttgart May 10, 2016
  12. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote : VfB captain Christian Gentner presented the fans with the championship trophy of the 2nd division
  13. ↑ a b c Christof Kneer: Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 16, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2018 : "You love the man with the Zorro mask"
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h i products by welt.de . September 17, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2018 : "Bundesliga: Horror foul on Gentner:" If our doc hadn't reacted so quickly ... ""
  15. ^ Article in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten . September 18, 2017, accessed on February 25, 2018 : "Bundesliga: With the knee in the face: Horror injury by Gentner causes debate about video evidence"
  16. ↑ "I had forgotten that we had ascended". kicker online , March 19, 2019, accessed on March 20, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Thanks! #legente , vfb.de, accessed on June 7, 2019
  18. ↑ Christian Gentner cracks the 400th In: tagesspiegel.de , March 1, 2020
  19. ↑ Christian Gentner remains Unioner. In: fc-union-berlin.de. July 3, 2020, accessed July 4, 2020 .
  20. ^ Announcement by the DFB from May 19, 2009
  21. ^ After collapse: father of Stuttgart professional Gentner died in the stadium . In: Spiegel Online . December 15, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 15, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Gentner, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Nürtingen , Germany