Christofer Heimeroth

Christofer Heimeroth
Christofer Heimeroth (2008)
Personnel
birthday	August 1, 1981
place of birth	Unna ,  Germany
size	194 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
1989-1995	SG crowds
1995-1996	BSV Menden
1996-1997	Borussia Dortmund
1997-1999	Sportfreunde Oestrich-Iserlohn
1999-2000	FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000-2005	FC Schalke 04 amateurs	85 (0)
2004-2006	FC Schalke 04	8 (0)
2006-2018	Borussia Monchengladbach	68 (0)
2006-2016	Borussia Mönchengladbach II	8 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002-2003	Germany U21	4 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2017/18

Christofer Heimeroth (born August 1, 1981 in Unna ) is a former German soccer goalkeeper . He spent his professional career at FC Schalke 04 and Borussia Mönchengladbach , where he usually did not get beyond the role of a substitute. He was also in goal four times for the German U21 national team .

Career

Club career

Youth and Schalke 04

Christofer Heimeroth began his career with SG Massen . Scouts from Borussia Dortmund saw him in his time at BSV Menden and took him to Dortmund, where he played from 1996 to 1997 in the junior department. After another two years with Sportfreunde Oestrich-Iserlohn , he joined the A-youth team of FC Schalke 04 in 1999 . In 2002 he was in the professional squad when Schalke won the DFB Cup .

Borussia Monchengladbach

For the 2006/07 season, Borussia Mönchengladbach announced Heimeroth's commitment. In his first season he was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with Borussia. While he was reserve goalkeeper in the relegation season except for a few games, Heimeroth was number 1 in goal in the 2007/08 season, since the contract with the previous goalkeeper Kasey Keller was not extended. This season he rose again to the first division with Borussia Mönchengladbach.

On the 7th matchday of the 2008/09 season he lost his place between the posts because interim coach Christian Ziege had not considered him for the game in Bochum after some mistakes . On Ziege's recommendation, the new coach Hans Meyer initially also preferred Uwe Gospodarek , but shortly before the winter break he also let Heimeroth play again. During the winter break, Borussia Mönchengladbach finally sorted out Gospodarek from the first team, while Heimeroth was retained as the second goalkeeper behind Borussia's newly signed goalkeeper Logan Bailly . In the first half of the 2010/11 Bundesliga season Heimeroth moved back as a regular goalkeeper between the posts after a series of defeats, but lost his regular place again at the end of the 2010/11 season, this time to Marc-André ter Stegen .

On December 6, 2012 Heimeroth played his first international game in the competition of the UEFA Europa League when he was preferred to regular goalkeeper Ter Stegen in the final group game against Fenerbahçe Istanbul .

Heimeroth ended his active career at the end of the 2017/18 season. Since then he has been working as a team manager at Borussia.

National team

From 2003 to 2004 Heimeroth made four games for the German U-21 national team .

successes

• Promotion to the Bundesliga : 2007/08 with Borussia Mönchengladbach

Web links

• Christofer Heimeroth in the database of weltfussball.de
• Christofer Heimeroth in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Andreas Plum: Christofer Heimeroth on Radio 90.1: "I'm happy that I'm playing". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on April 13, 2019 .