Denis Epstein

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Denis Epstein
Epstein, Dennis FSV Frankfurt 15-16 WP.jpg
Denis Epstein (2015)
Personnel
birthday 2nd July 1986
place of birth Cologne ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
Fortuna Cologne
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
until 1998 Pulheimer SC
1998-2004 1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2006 1. FC Cologne II 31 0(3)
2005-2007 1. FC Cologne 23 0(2)
2007 →  Rot-Weiss Essen  (loan) 5 0(1)
2007-2008 Kickers Offenbach 21 0(1)
2008-2010 Iraklis Thessaloniki 50 0(9)
2010-2011 Olympiacos Piraeus 0 0(0)
2010-2011 →  AO Kerkyra  (loan) 27 0(9)
2011-2013 Atromitos Athens 50 0(1)
2013-2016 FSV Frankfurt 63 0(6)
2016-2018 AO Kerkyra 51 (10)
2018-2019 PAS Lamia 24 0(2)
2019– TSG Balingen 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004 Germany U-18 4 (0)
2005 Germany U-19 5 (0)
2006 Germany U-20 4 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2018/19

Denis Epstein (born July 2, 1986 in Cologne ) is a German soccer player .

Career

The son of the Cologne soccer coach Dieter Epstein played in the youth teams of 1. FC Cologne from the age of twelve and played 31 games for the second team in the Regionalliga Nord between 2004 and 2006 . He was used for the first time on October 16, 2005 against Hannover 96 (1: 4) in the 1st Bundesliga when he came on for Dimitrios Grammozis in the 72nd minute . On November 5, 2005, Epstein scored his first goal in the top German soccer league to make it 1-1 in his second Bundesliga game in an away game against VfL Wolfsburg . He came into play in the 59th minute for Marvin Matip . On December 3, 2005 he played for the first time in the Bundesliga from the start.

After his position as a loan player from January 2007 at Rot-Weiss Essen in the Regionalliga Nord, Epstein dissolved his contract with 1. FC Cologne in July 2007 and joined Kickers Offenbach . From the 2008/09 season he played for the Greek first division club Iraklis Thessaloniki and moved to Olympiacos Piraeus for the 2010/11 season , where he met coach Ewald Lienen . He was loaned directly to AO Kerkyra for a year and came back to Piraeus during the 2011 summer break . However, his contract was dissolved, so he did not play a game for Olympiacos. On July 19, 2011, the Greek first division club Atromitos Athens signed him .

On July 1, 2013, Epstein moved to the German second division club FSV Frankfurt .

After relegating to the 3rd division with Frankfurt, he returned to AO Kerkyra in the summer of 2016. There he was active for two seasons. After another station in Greece, at PAS Lamia , Epstein joined the German fourth division  club TSG Balingen in the summer of 2019 .

National team

Epstein took part with the German U-19 national team in the U-19 European Championship in 2005 and reached the semi-finals there.

Others

In July 2015, he and his club colleague Sören Pirson were nominated for the XY Prize for moral courage .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Epstein changes, article on focus.de from June 18, 2010
  2. ↑ Atromitos grabs Epstein , in: transfermarkt.de, from July 18, 2011
  3. ↑ Frankfurt gets Epstein from Greece  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: sport1.de, from May 21, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / wap.sport1.de  
  4. ↑ Υπέγραψε για 2 χρόνια στην Κέρκυρα ο Επστάιν sport24.gr, on June 22, 2016, accessed on July 10, 2016
  5. ↑ Zollern Alb Kurier: "This is our king transfer": TSG Balingen signs ex-professional Denis Epstein , accessed on July 9, 2019
  6. ↑ Match statistics on the DFB website, accessed on February 11, 2016
  7. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse : FSV professionals Pirson and Epstein show moral courage as courageous lifeguards from July 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Epstein, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd July 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne