Clemens Fritz

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Clemens Fritz
Clemens Fritz - SV Werder Bremen (2) .jpg
Clemens Fritz 2009
Personnel
birthday 7th December 1980
place of birth Erfurt ,  GDR
size 183 cm
position right full defense
midfield
Juniors
Years station
1987-1997 Red and white Erfurt
1997-1999 VfB Leipzig
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-1999 VfB Leipzig 6 0(0)
1999-2001 Red and white Erfurt 57 (14)
2001-2003 Karlsruher SC 61 0(7)
2003-2006 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 43 0(2)
2003-2005 Bayer 04 Leverkusen amateurs 19 0(3)
2006-2017 Werder Bremen 288 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2001 Germany U21 1 0(0)
2002 Team 2006 1 0(0)
2006-2008 Germany 22 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Clemens Fritz (born December 7, 1980 in Erfurt ) is a former German soccer player . Since November 2019 he has been employed at Werder Bremen as head of the scouting department.

Career

Player career

society

He started in 1987 in the youth of Rot-Weiß Erfurt and moved to VfB Leipzig in 1997 for two years . Due to the financial distress of Rot-Weiß Erfurt , the move to Leipzig came about. When the people of Leipzig had financial problems themselves, the people of Erfurt took the opportunity to bring Clemens Fritz back. Fritz immediately made the leap into the regional league team, where he increasingly advanced to become a top performer.

Clemens Fritz as a player from Werder Bremen (2007)

After scoring ten goals in 32 games for Erfurt in the 2000/01 season in the Regionalliga Süd, Fritz and his friend Marco Engelhardt moved to the second division Karlsruher SC , where both quickly became regulars. The two parted ways in 2003 when Fritz moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the Bundesliga . There he made his Bundesliga debut on November 9, 2003. On July 24, 2004, Fritz broke his fibula in a test match. The injury resulted in various operations, so that Fritz could not play a Bundesliga game in the entire 2004/05 season; only on March 9, 2005, he was used in the Champions League game against Liverpool for almost 40 minutes. In August 2005 Fritz returned to regular game play.

For the 2006/07 season he moved to Werder Bremen , where he initially signed a contract until 2009. There he immediately ousted Patrick Owomoyela, who was mostly set in the preseason, and has since had a regular place in the first team. Since his time in Leverkusen, Fritz played in the position of right- back , having been used as a striker in Erfurt and Karlsruhe at the beginning of his career . On October 24, 2008, he extended his contract to 2012. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, he succeeded Per Mertesacker as captain at Werder Bremen. In addition, he was temporarily called up as a right midfielder from this season. On January 28, 2012, Fritz played his 200th Bundesliga game in the home game against his former club Bayer 04 Leverkusen .

On April 28, 2016, Fritz, contrary to his previous announcement in January, announced his contract extension at Werder Bremen and thus postponed his end of career to summer 2017. On May 8, 2017, Fritz then announced his final career as a professional footballer at the end of the 2016/17 season . Before his departure at the last home game of the season on May 13, 2017 against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , he was made the club's eighth honorary captain.

National team

Clemens Fritz was nominated for the first time on September 29, 2006 by national coach Joachim Loew for the national team's friendly against Georgia on October 7 in Rostock , where he made his international debut on the right side of defense. Then he was also in the following European Championship qualifiers for the national team on the field. On June 2, 2007, he scored his first of two international goals in the game against San Marino . In 2008 he was included in the German squad for the European Championship in 2008 and was part of the starting eleven in each of the three group games, in which he was also used as a right midfielder. In the quarter-finals against Portugal he came on a brief assignment as a substitute, in the semi-finals against Turkey and in the final against Spain he was not considered. The last time Fritz played for the national team was in October 2008 in a World Cup qualifier against Wales . He came to a total of 22 full internationals.

After the active career

In November Fritz found another job with his former club Werder Bremen. There he heads the club's internal scouting department.

titles and achievements

Private

Clemens Fritz and his wife Alena have had a daughter since August 9, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Clemens Fritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Football is not everything" ( Memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 652 kB), www.clemensfritz.com
  2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Clemens Fritz - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Fritz remains loyal to Bremen until 2012 . FOCUS Online. October 26, 2008. Retrieved October 26, 2008.
  4. ↑ kicker.de: Clemens Fritz is the new Werder captain
  5. ↑ Werders Fritz ends his career kicker.de, January 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ Fritz 'strong signal in the final spurt: "I'll continue!" Werder.de, April 28, 2016.
  7. ↑ Fritz appointed honorary captain Werder.de, May 13, 2017.
  8. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Clemens Fritz - International Appearances . RSSSF . September 7, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ Clemens Fritz becomes Head of Scouting at Werder Bremen , werder.de, accessed on November 26, 2019
  10. ↑ Fritz and Gerber got married . ( weser-kurier.de [accessed on November 1, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Werder's captain Clemens Fritz is engaged . Weserkurier, March 2, 2017.
  12. ↑ Clemens Fritz and Alena Gerber: The baby is here! In: Weser-Kurier.de. August 14, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fritz, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt , GDR