Dexter Langen

Dexter Langen
Personnel
Surname	Dexter Lamar Langen
birthday	December 16, 1980
place of birth	Friedberg ,  Germany
size	186 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1986-1996	TSV Langgöns
1996-1997	VfB Giessen
1997-1998	Bor. Mönchengladbach
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-1999	Kickers Offenbach
2000-2001	VfB Giessen
2001-2003	Kickers Offenbach	35 0(0)
2003-2006	Dynamo Dresden	86 0(3)
2006–2012	Hansa Rostock	90 0(1)
2008–2012	Hansa Rostock II	11 0(4)
2019–	FC Fog Coast Rostock	13 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2012–	FSV Bentwisch U19 (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given. Status: winter break 2019/20

Dexter Lamar Langen (born December 16, 1980 in Friedberg ) is a former German football player who was used on the right side of the defense and midfield .

Life

youth

Dexter Langen was born in Friedberg, Hesse, as the son of the Germans Renate Langen and a US officer named McKenzey.

He started playing soccer when he was seven when schoolmates took him away. Langen played at TSV Langgöns until he was 16 ; then he moved to VfB Giessen for a year . Another year later, in 1997, at the age of 16, he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach , where he said he was homesick and therefore moved back to Hesse after a year to the Kickers Offenbach . According to his own statement, he “couldn't really concentrate on football” in Mönchengladbach.

Professional career

In December 1999 Langen left Kickers Offenbach, which he joined in 1998, and moved to his former club VfB Giessen. In 2001 he returned to the Kickers, who were playing in the third- tier Regionalliga Süd at the time . In the following 2001/02 season, he played 19 games, including seven over a full ninety minutes in which he failed to score, and in 2002/03 he came to 16 games without a goal. He had played a total of 35 regional league games for Offenbach in two years. In 2003 he also won the Hessen Cup with the Kickers .

In the same year Langen moved to the north regional division Dynamo Dresden on a free transfer , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga a year later, in 2004 . In the 2003/04 promotion season , he had played 33 games. In the first year after promotion, which ended his club as eighth in the table after a season marked by relegation battle, Langen came to 22 games with one goal. In the following 2005/06 season he scored two goals in 31 games, but could not prevent the relegation of 1. FC Dynamo to the Regionalliga Nord.

In May 2006, before Dresden's later relegation to the regional league was certain, Langen signed a contract with Hansa Rostock , to which he moved at the end of the season free of charge. In 2007 Langen rose to the Bundesliga with Rostock , but had to accept the immediate relegation there. After Rostock was in danger of relegation in the second division in the first half of the 2008/09 season , coach Dieter Eilts removed Langen as one of four players from the Ostseestädter squad during the winter break . However, since he did not find a new club at first, he should first take part in the training operations of the Rostock reserve team. After Andreas Zachhuber replaced Eilts as coach in March 2009, Langen's suspension was lifted by this, so that he still contributed to the league of the Hanseatic League with a deployment on the 28th matchday. In the following season 2009/10 Langen then played again in the Rostock regular formation, before he failed from the tenth game day due to injury and could only be used again in the relegation battle from the 26th game day. Nevertheless, Hansa was relegated to the third division for the first time in the club's history , whereupon Langen initially had ambitions to change clubs. However, he stayed in Rostock and was scheduled by the new coach Peter Vollmann as the designated top performer of the newly formed team, but suffered a cruciate ligament rupture on the first day of the game, so that he was canceled the rest of the 2010/11 season . Without Langen's participation, the team then achieved direct promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga and also won the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Cup . In the second division season 2011/12 , Langen only made six appearances in the professional team, which ultimately had to accept direct relegation to the third division, and also played six more games for Hansa's reserve team in the major league. He subsequently did not receive an offer to extend the contract.

Amateur football

From March 2019, almost seven years after ending his professional football career, Dexter Langen laced his football boots again. He was hired by FC NebelCOAST Rostock in the district league Warnow (10th league).

Coaching career

For the 2012/13 season, Langen was assistant coach of the A-youth of the FSV Bentwisch , who was supervised by Karsten Wenzlawski .

successes

• Promotion to the Bundesliga with Hansa Rostock in 2007
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga with Dynamo Dresden 2004, Hansa Rostock 2011
• Winning the state cup with Kickers Offenbach 2003, Hansa Rostock 2011

Web links

• Dexter Langen in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Dexter Langen in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kai Rehberg: Former Hansa Rostock professional Dexter Langen is now playing in the district league. In: sportbuzzer.de. March 19, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 .