Dennis Diekmeier

Dennis Diekmeier
Dennis Diekmeier (2014)
Personnel
birthday	October 20, 1989
place of birth	Thedinghausen ,  Germany
size	188 cm
position	External defense (right)
Juniors
Years	station
1995-2001	TSV Bierden
2001-2003	TSV Verden
2003-2008	Werder Bremen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008	Werder Bremen II	19 (0)
2008	Werder Bremen	0 (0)
2009-2010	1. FC Nuremberg	47 (0)
2010-2018	Hamburger SV	173 (0)
2010-2011	Hamburger SV II	4 (1)
2019–	SV Sandhausen	49 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2007	Germany U18	4 (1)
2007-2008	Germany U19	18 (4)
2008-2009	Germany U20	3 (0)
2010	Germany U21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Dennis Diekmeier (born October 20, 1989 in Thedinghausen ) is a German soccer player . He can be used as a right midfielder and as a right-back and has been under contract with SV Sandhausen since January 2019 .

Career

In the club

youth

Diekmeier started playing football at TSV Bierden and later played for TSV Verden before moving to the youth department of SV Werder Bremen in 2003. For the 2008/09 season he was promoted to the squad of Bremen's second team, which played in the third division . At the same time Diekmeier was also part of the first team. At Werder he was mostly used in midfield.

1. FC Nuremberg

In January 2009 Diekmeier moved to the then second division club 1. FC Nürnberg and was there in all games in the second half of the season and in both relegation games. The kicker sports magazine named him the third best full-back in the second half of the season. On the first day of the Bundesliga season 2009/10 Diekmeier was voted into the "Eleven of the day" of the kicker. After eight game days, Diekmeier was the only Nuremberg goalkeeper who had played through in every game, along with goalkeeper Schäfer. In the final training session a day before the ninth matchday, however, he suffered an allergy shock, which is why an emergency doctor was even flown in by helicopter. Still, Diekmeier should play. However, two hours before the start of the game, he was given a protective ban because one of the drugs was on the doping list. A lawn mold allergy was later diagnosed as triggering the shock. During the winter break, VfL Wolfsburg offered an estimated four million euros for Diekmeier. The transfer did not take place.

Hamburger SV

Instead, Diekmeier moved to Hamburger SV in the summer of 2010 , whose home games he attended as a child and whose fan he has been since childhood. Due to an injury, he came to his first appearance on matchday 27. In the 6-2 home win against 1. FC Köln, he was put in the starting line-up by coach Michael Oenning and replaced by Guy Demel in the 55th minute . In his eight years Diekmeier was mostly a regular as a right-back under various coaches. In February 2018, negotiations on an extension of his expiring contract failed. Only at the end of the 2017/18 season Diekmeier came under the new coach Christian Titz to the relegation-threatened club in the last eight games and was otherwise not in the matchday squad. After the first descent in the history of HSV, Diekmeier left the club when his contract expired and has since been without a club despite various offers. With a personal trainer , he kept himself fit for a new club.

SV Sandhausen

At the beginning of January 2019 Diekmeier joined the relegation-threatened second division club SV Sandhausen , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 30, 2020. He was used in 16 league games by the end of the 2018/19 season , in which the club achieved relegation. Before the 2019/20 season, Diekmeier extended his contract until June 30, 2022 and was also appointed vice-captain by coach Uwe Koschinat . Since the actual captain Stefan Kulovits was out for the entire first half of the season due to an injury, Diekmeier played all 17 first half matches as captain for SVS. Regular player since the beginning of the season, he was still captain in the second half of the season. In the 1-0 away win against SV Wehen Wiesbaden on matchday 28, Diekmeier scored his first goal in his 294th professional game. He played a total of 33 league games during the season (all from the start) and scored another goal of the season against HSV in the Volksparkstadion on the last day of the match .

In the national team

Diekmeier became European champion in 2008 with the German U19 national team . During the tournament in the Czech Republic , he usually played as a right full-back. Following the final round, he was awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in gold .

Success as a player

• U19 European Champion 2008 with Germany
• Fritz Walter Gold Medal (U19), July 2008
• Promotion to the Bundesliga in 2008/09 with 1. FC Nürnberg

Trivia

With his appearance on the 1st matchday of the 2017/18 season against FC Augsburg - his 182nd Bundesliga game - Diekmeier drew level with Markus Schuler in the list of Bundesliga players with the most Bundesliga appearances without their own goals. Diekmeier has been the sole record holder since the 3-1 away win at 1. FC Köln one day later. In total, Diekmeier remained goalless in 203 Bundesliga games. In the German professional sector, 59 second division , 15 third division , 10 DFB Cup and 6 relegation appearances were added, which means that Diekmeier missed out on a total of 293 professional appearances. On matchday 28 of the 2019/20 season he scored his first professional goal for SV Sandhausen in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the men's area, he had previously only scored in September 2010 for the second team of HSV in the Regionalliga Nord .

On October 5, 2017 Diekmeier appeared as a guest actor in the episode Die Nervensäge of the ZDF television series Notruf Hafenkante .

Private

Diekmeier has been married since May 2010 and has four children with his wife. Together they operate the since October 2019 YouTube - Channel team Diekmeier with about 3,000 subscribers (as of May 2020).

Web links

Commons : Dennis Diekmeier  - Collection of images

• Dennis Diekmeier in the database of the German Football Association
• Dennis Diekmeier in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Dennis Diekmeier in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Dennis Diekmeier in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Butscher: Flexible and top (kicker online, June 11, 2009)
2. ↑ 1. Bundesliga - Eleven of the day
3. ↑ Luck for Dennis Diekmeier , October 16, 2009
4. ↑ That was good! , October 17, 2009
5. ^ Club: Mold caused allergic shock ( memento from October 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 28, 2009 (nn-online)
6. ↑ Diekmeier change failed (kicker online, February 1, 2010)
7. ↑ Diekmeier receives four-year contract  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
8. ↑ "I went to HSV as a child"
9. ↑ Kai Schiller: Diekmeier is the HSV player from Werderland. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH / Funke Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG, January 24, 2013, accessed on January 25, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hamburger SV: Dennis Diekmeier does not renew at Hamburger SV - That is why Diekmeier is leaving HSV on Sport1.de , February 14, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018
11. ↑ Hamburger SV: HSV says goodbye to five professionals , May 15, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018.
12. ↑ A terribly nice family on RTL Nord , December 11, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018
13. ↑ SVS signs Diekmeier , svs1916.de, January 3, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2019.
14. ↑ Diekmeier extended at SVS , svs1916.de, May 23, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2019.
15. ↑ "He has the authority": Diekmeier becomes vice-captain , kicker.de, accessed on December 31, 2019
16. ↑ ^{a b} "Had it emerged": Diekmeier scored his first professional goal , kicker.de, May 26, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2020.
17. ↑ FOCUS online: Goalless record: Diekmeier draws level with students , accessed on August 20, 2017
18. ↑ Spox.com: Dennis Diekmeier from HSV has broken the record of goalless games , accessed on August 26, 2017
19. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Why Diekmeier needs the help of the police , accessed on October 12, 2017
20. ↑ When does HSV Diekmeier get hold of? bild.de, June 3, 2010
21. ↑ Report on mopo.de, accessed on December 17, 2017
22. ↑ Team Diekmeier on YouTube (accessed on January 18, 2020.)