Denis Berger

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Denis Berger
Personnel
birthday April 14, 1983
place of birth Vienna ,  Austria
size 181 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1986-1988 Prater SV
1988-1997 FK Austria Vienna
1997-2002 VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2006 VfB Stuttgart amateurs 116 (20)
2006 Sports fans victories 10 0(1)
2007-2008 KSV Hessen Kassel 40 0(4)
2008-2009 SV Josko Ried 20 0(0)
2009-2010 SSV Jahn Regensburg 35 0(3)
2010-2011 Kickers Offenbach 22 0(2)
2011–2012 VfL Bochum 16 0(0)
2012 FC Hansa Rostock 14 0(1)
2012-2013 FC Hansa Rostock II 11 0(3)
2013-2015 SG Sonnenhof Großaspach 42 0(2)
2015-2016 Calcio Leinfelden-Echterdingen 25 0(4)
2017– Nafi Stuttgart 13 (12)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2002-2004 Austria U-21 20 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2016/17

Denis Berger (born April 14, 1983 in Vienna ) is a former Austrian football player who is used in particular on the wing positions in midfield . At the age of 14, Berger moved to Germany in 1997 , where, apart from a one-year stint at the Austrian first division club SV Ried , he also spent his other career to date. He played for various clubs in the third-class regional league and later in the third division , but also made 16 appearances in the second division for VfL Bochum .

Career

Youth in Vienna and Stuttgart

Berger began his football career in 1986 at Prater SV from Vienna, which was considered a cooperation partner of FK Austria Wien and was to be incorporated into it in the 1990s. But as early as 1988, when he was five years old, Berger moved to the youth department of Austria, to which he subsequently belonged for a total of nine years.

1997 Berger left Austria to join the German VfB Stuttgart , for whom he initially played for a year in the C-youth . In 1998/99 , Berger was part of the VfB B youth team, with whom he qualified for the final round of the German U-17 championship and was able to advance to the final in this. The final from last year, which Stuttgart had only lost to Borussia Dortmund on penalties, was reissued , but this time VfB won the title with a 3-1 victory. In the following season 1999/2000 Berger could not repeat this success with the VfB and was eliminated in the semi-finals of the youth championship.

For the 2000/01 season Berger moved up to the A-youth of VfB Stuttgart. Although the team missed this season to qualify for the final round of the German U-19 Championship , but in the Junior Club Cup , the team reached the final of 2000/01 , the Stuttgart by a 5: 1 victory over FK Pirmasens decided for themselves . In the following season 2001/02 succeeded the A-youth of VfB, both in the U-19 championship and in the club cup to advance to the final. In the 2001/02 cup final, Berger and VfB lost to FC Schalke 04 on penalties, and the championship final against FC Bayern Munich was also lost 4-0.

Berger played a total of over 50 games for the youth teams of the Austrian Football Association .

Beginnings in Stuttgart

Even as an A-youth, Berger made two appearances in Stuttgart's second men's team in the final phase of the 2001/02 season , which played under coach Peter Starzmann against the threat of relegation from the third-class regional league. Ultimately, the team failed to keep the class, so Berger, who was taken over from the youth in the reserve team in the summer of 2002, only experienced the 2002/03 season in the fourth-class Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . With nine goals in 30 appearances, however, Berger was able to contribute to the team's direct resurgence as a regular player, so that he not only played for Austria's U-21 team in qualifying for the 2004 European Championship , but also attracted the attention of the Stuttgart Bundesliga team coach Felix Magath , had drawn on itself.

For the 2003/04 Bundesliga season , Berger was part of the professional squad of VfB, but was only used for the reserve due to injury and subsequently found himself in the reserve squad. So Berger came in the Regionalliga seasons 2003/04 and 2004/05 under the coaches Reinhold Fanz and Rainer Adrion respectively to 29 and in the season 2005/06 again to 26 further appearances for Stuttgart's "second". In the summer of 2006, his involvement in Stuttgart finally ended after 116 league appearances in which he had scored 20 goals.

Regional league with victories and Kassel

Berger moved in the summer of 2006 within the regional league to Sportfreunde Siegen , with whom he initially negotiated a two-year contract. Under coach Ralf Loose Berger did not succeed in the first half of the 2006/07 season to assert himself in Siegen's regional league team, so that he only played three appearances on the starting line-up and seven appearances as a substitute.

Therefore, Berger changed clubs again in winter and joined the regional league team KSV Hessen Kassel , where he initially received a contract until the end of the season, which was soon extended by one year. Berger played 13 games for Kassel under coach Matthias Hamann in the second half of the season and contributed to the relegation of the promoted team with two goals. 2007/08 Berger played in 27 other games for Kassel, scoring two goals again, but the club failed to qualify as the 14th in the final table to qualify for the newly founded 3rd league in summer 2008 , whereupon Berger left the club.

Via Austria into the 3rd division

In SV Josko Ried , Berger found a new employer, with whom he signed a contract that ran until 2010, so that he was active in the Austrian Bundesliga for the first time in the 2008/09 season . Under coach Paul Gludovatz , Berger made 20 appearances and finally finished fifth in the final table with the team. At the end of the season, Berger asked for the termination of his contract, which the club agreed.

Berger moved back to Germany, where he signed a two-year contract with the Bavarian third division club SSV Jahn Regensburg . In the 2009/10 season Berger ran under coach Markus Weinzierl in 35 of the 38 third division games, which he had a share in the relegation of the SSV as a table sixteenth.

Already after this season Berger changed clubs again and joined the direct third division competitor Kickers Offenbach , where he again received a two-year contract. But Berger only stayed one year in Offenbach: After he became a top performer in the team initially trained by Wolfgang Wolf and later by Arie van Lent , initially with seven assists and two goals he scored himself in twelve appearances, he was no longer able to play due to a broken ankle tie in with these services. Berger only made ten goalless appearances in the second half of the season and left the club at the end of the season.

Stations in Bochum and Rostock

The second division VfL Bochum then initially signed Berger for two years. During the second division season 2011/12 Berger came in the team initially trained by Friedhelm Funkel , then by Andreas Bergmann , but not beyond a reserve role, so that he was only on the starting line-up four times and played a further twelve appearances as a substitute.

Berger's contract ended again after just one year: for the 2012/13 season he signed a two-year contract with third division club FC Hansa Rostock . For him, Berger completed 14 appearances during the first half of the season, but was again unable to establish himself as a regular player, especially after the transfer of the coaching position from Wolfgang Wolf to Marc Fascher . In the second half of the season Berger then played exclusively for Hansa's reserve team in the fifth-class Oberliga Nordost , for which he played a total of eleven missions. At the end of the season, Berger prematurely terminated his contract with FC Hansa. Then Berger played for SG Sonnenhof Großaspach and most recently he played for the association league team Calcio Leinfelden-Echterdingen, where he surprisingly announced his career in November 2016. In the winter break of 2016/17 he then joined the district league team Nafi Stuttgart .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ VFL-Bochum.de: Denis Berger ( memento of October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 21, 2012
  2. ↑ Bochumschau.de: Team Photo , accessed 21 May 2012
  3. ↑ a b c KSV.lopir.net: Denis Berger on the lions ( memento from February 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on May 21, 2012
  4. ↑ FR-online.de : Flink auf links , accessed on May 21, 2012
  5. ↑ Inside-Siegen.de Denis Berger strengthens sports fans , accessed on May 21, 2012
  6. ↑ KSV.lopri.net: “Don't be afraid of victories” ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on May 21, 2012
  7. ↑ Transfermarkt.de : Ried gets Dennis Berger , accessed on May 21, 2012
  8. ↑ SVRied.at: Contract with Denis Berger was terminated ( memento of January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on May 21, 2012
  9. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de : Denis Berger changes to SSV Jahn Regensburg , accessed on May 21, 2012
  10. ↑ OFC.de: Next signing at OFC - Denis Berger comes from Regensburg , accessed 21 May 2012
  11. ↑ Kicker.de : Great hopes rest in Berger , accessed on May 21, 2012
  12. ↑ VfL-Bochum.de: VfL obliges Berger ( memento from June 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 21, 2012
  13. ↑ FC-Hansa.de: FC Hansa Rostock sign Denis Berger , accessed on May 21, 2012
  14. ↑ Kicker.de, May 7, 2013: Hansa plans without Denis Berger , accessed on June 12, 2013
  15. ↑ Ex-professional Berger ends his career at transfermarkt.de
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria