Daniel Keita-Ruel

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Daniel Keita-Ruel
Personnel
birthday September 21, 1989
place of birth Wuppertal ,  Germany
size 188 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Wuppertal SV
2006-2008 Borussia Monchengladbach
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2009 Bonner SC 21 0(3)
2009-2011 Wuppertal SV 26 0(0)
2009-2011 Wuppertaler SV II 31 (14)
2014-2016 Ratingen 04/19 44 (14)
2016-2017 SG Wattenscheid 09 33 (12)
2017-2018 SC Fortuna Cologne 37 (15)
2018-2020 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 55 (18)
2020- SV Sandhausen 0 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 8, 2020

Daniel Keita-Ruel (born September 21, 1989 in Wuppertal ) is a German - French soccer player . He has been under contract with the second division SV Sandhausen since summer 2020 .

Career

youth

Daniel Keita-Ruel's father comes from Senegal , his mother comes from the French Mediterranean island of Corsica . He was born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia , and began playing football in the youth of Wuppertaler SV . In 2006 he joined the youth team of Borussia Mönchengladbach .

On the way to becoming a professional soccer player

In 2008 Keita-Ruel moved from the youth of Mönchengladbach to the first team of the then top division club Bonner SC . During the season he came to 21 missions and three hits. For the 2009/10 season he went back to Wuppertaler SV, which was then playing in the 3rd division . In his first season he was denied a regular place, he played in six games. In the end, the Wuppertal were relegated from the 3rd division. In the regional league he came to 20 missions. His contract expired in the summer of 2011 and a trial session at FSV Frankfurt was unsuccessful. Keita-Ruel returned to Wuppertal to play for the WSV reserve in the Lower Rhine League.

Three years in a closed prison

In September 2011, Keita-Ruel was arrested for being involved in four robberies. Together with seven accomplices, he is said to have stolen more than 100,000 euros. The criminal trial began in March 2012; Keita-Ruel was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for aggravated robbery .

New start in everyday life in the league

For the 2014/15 season , the upper division Ratingen 04/19 signed him after he had come into the open execution . In the first half of the season, the striker scored three goals in twelve games. In January 2015 he had to go back to the closed prison. For the 2015/16 season he returned to the Ratingen 04/19 squad and scored eleven goals in 32 league games. In the 2016/17 season , Keita-Ruel was under contract with the regional division SG Wattenscheid 09 , for which he scored twelve goals.

Keita-Ruel was signed by SC Fortuna Köln for the 3rd division during the 2017 summer break . In the 2017/18 season he scored a total of 15 goals and provided 7 assists, making him Cologne's top scorer and one of the top ten goal scorers in the league. On the 28th matchday of this third division season he was elected player of this matchday by Kicker Sportmagazin after two goals in the game against Chemnitzer FC .

For the 2018/19 season, Keita-Ruel moved to SpVgg Greuther Fürth in the 2nd Bundesliga . He signed a two-year contract with the Franconian club. For the 2020/21 season he moved to SV Sandhausen .

Autobiography

In January 2020, his autobiographical work Second Chance: My Way from Prison to Professional Football was published .

Publications

  • Daniel Keita-Ruel with Harald Braun: Second chance: my way from prison to professional football . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05362-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Biermann: How Daniel Keita-Ruel made it back from jail to professional football. In: 11 friends . February 10, 2019, accessed February 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Krystian Wozniak: Wuppertaler SV II. Keita-Ruel is back. In: reviersport.de. October 4, 2011, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Moritz Stanarius and Thomas Besche: "Big Boy" and his gang: WSV player (22) in custody. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . October 11, 2011, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  4. ^ Kölner Treff - ARD Mediathek. August 7, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Spiegelhauer: "Big Boy": remorse and fear of the alleged boss. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. March 26, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Spiegelhauer: Little Boy instead of Big Boy: Ex-kicker is hoping for a comeback at WSV. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 11, 2012, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Spiegelhauer: Five and a half years imprisonment for ex-footballer - will he be released on bail? In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 17, 2012, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Thorsten Richter: From jail to the square. In: reviersport.de. June 10, 2014, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Nils Jewko: 04/19: Daniel Keita back in prison. In: FuPa . January 15, 2015, accessed August 20, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Christian Krämer: New entry from Wattenscheid. Fortuna Köln sign Daniel Keita-Ruel. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . May 27, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  11. ^ Christian Krämer: Fortuna newcomer. From prison to the lawn: Keita-Ruel's eventful life. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. June 2, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  12. ↑ 3rd league 2017/18 Torjäger , Kicker-Sportmagazin , accessed on August 6, 2018
  13. ↑ 3rd league 2017/18 players of the match day , kicker sports magazine, accessed on August 6, 2018
  14. ↑ Kleeblatt brings striker Keita-Ruel. In: greuther-fuerth.de . June 15, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .
  15. ↑ 2. Bundesliga - Daniel Keita-Ruel moves to SV Sandhausen. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Stefan Seitz: Daniel Keita-Ruel: “Second chance. My way from prison to professional football “: Open and honest - 218 pages long. In: Wuppertaler Rundschau . Accessed January 30, 2020 . Christoph Schröder: Daniel Keita-Ruel: “Second chance” - dreary beautiful painting. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Büchermarkt”. January 31, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 (review).
personal data
SURNAME Keita-Ruel, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keita-Ruel, Daniél
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal , Germany