Christian Mathenia

Christian Mathenia
Christian Mathenia (2019)
Personnel
birthday	March 31, 1992
place of birth	Mainz ,  Germany
size	189 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
	VfL Frei-Weinheim
	Hassia Bingen
2006-2011	1. FSV Mainz 05
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2011-2014	1. FSV Mainz 05 II	51 (0)
2014-2016	SV Darmstadt 98	67 (0)
2016-2018	Hamburger SV	38 (0)
2018–	1. FC Nuremberg	45 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 21, 2020

Christian Mathenia (born March 31, 1992 in Mainz ) is a German soccer goalkeeper . He is under contract with 1. FC Nürnberg .

Career

Mathenia began playing football at VfL Frei-Weinheim , a district club in Ingelheim am Rhein , and switched to the youth department of 1. FSV Mainz 05 via Hassia Bingen in 2006 . For the U23 youth team, he played 51 regional league games. In the club's internal competition for the goalkeeper place in the Bundesliga team 2013/14 , Loris Karius was given preference over Mathenia.

For the 2014/15 season Mathenia moved to second division SV Darmstadt 98 , with whom he rose to second place in the Bundesliga at the end of the season and was the only player to play all 34 second division games (over 90 minutes). He also remained SVD's regular goalkeeper in the Bundesliga.

For the 2016/17 season he moved to Hamburger SV . He signed a contract that ran until summer 2019. On the 11th matchday on November 20, 2016, he made his debut against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (2-2). After René Adler's contract expired at the end of the season, HSV signed a new goalkeeper in Julian Pollersbeck . With this Mathenia competes for the position in the gate. Shortly before the start of the season, HSV coach Markus Gisdol announced that Mathenia was going into the 2017/18 season as a regular goalkeeper . For the second half of the season he had to give up this place to Pollersbeck, but got it back from the new coach Bernd Hollerbach after the first two games . After Christian Titz, the third coach, had taken over the team this season, Pollersbeck became the goalkeeper again from matchday 27.

After HSV was relegated, Mathenia moved to Bundesliga promoted 1. FC Nürnberg for the 2018/19 season . From the eighth day of the match he replaced Fabian Bredlow as regular goalkeeper until the end of the season and only missed five more games due to an injury. With the Franks, he was relegated to the bottom of the table in the 2nd division and then extended his contract term to June 2024. On the 9th match day of the following second division season 2019/20 , the goalkeeper broke his kneecap against FC St. Pauli while clearing an attack needed an operation. After three months he was back between the posts in a test match.

successes

• Runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga 2015 and promotion to the Bundesliga (with SV Darmstadt 98)

Awards

• Winner of the “ White Vest ” award as “strongest” goalkeeper in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2014/15 season.

Web links

Commons : Christian Mathenia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christian Mathenia in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Christian Mathenia in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christian Mathenia in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait: In Mainz the breakthrough was denied to him, in Darmstadt there is no way around Christian Mathenia echo-online.de, accessed on November 13, 2015
2. ↑ HSV Fußball AG (Ed.): Fix: Mathenia will sign until 2019. In: Hamburger SV. Retrieved May 19, 2016 . 
3. ↑ kicker.de: Gisdol: Mathenia is number 1 , accessed on August 17, 2017
4. ↑ Hamburger SV: Pollersbeck as number 1 in the second half of the season ( Memento from January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), January 12, 2018, accessed on January 12, 2018.
5. ↑ Welt Online : Hollerbach changes back to the goalkeeping position , January 27, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018.
6. ↑ Kicker Online: Joker Kalou stabs the heart of the HSV , March 17, 2018, accessed on March 17, 2018.
7. ↑ 1. FC Nürnberg: Club strengthens itself with Christian Mathenia , May 26, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2018.
8. ↑ Mathenia stays with FCN and extends it long-term , kicker.de, accessed on May 21, 2019
9. ↑ Broken kneecap! Mathenia is out for a long time at FCN , nordbayern.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
10. ↑ Mathenia makes a comeback for Nuremberg: Mavropanos with debut , frankenpost.de, accessed on January 18, 2020