Erwin Hoffer

Jimmy Hoffer is a redirect to this article. See also: Jimmy Hoffa and Jimmy Hoffa (film) .

Erwin Hoffer
Erwin Hoffer (2014)
Personnel
birthday	April 14, 1987
place of birth	Baden ,  Austria
size	176 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1994-1995	1. SC Haidhof
1995-1998	FC Tribuswinkel
1998-2002	Baden AC
2002-2004	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2006	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling II	53 (27)
2004-2006	VfB Admira Wacker Mödling	21 0(4)
2006-2007	SK Rapid Vienna II	11 (11)
2006-2009	SK Rapid Vienna	85 (41)
2009-2013	SSC Naples	8 0(0)
2010	→  1. FC Kaiserslautern II  (loan)	1 0(3)
2010-2011	→  1. FC Kaiserslautern  (loan)	24 0(5)
2011-2013	→  Eintracht Frankfurt  (loan)	36 (10)
2013	→ 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan)	14 0(3)
2013-2015	Fortuna Dusseldorf	45 (13)
2015-2017	Karlsruher SC	50 0(6)
2017-2019	KFCO Beerschot Wilrijk	50 0(8)
2019–	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	25 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2004-2005	Austria U-17	13 0(9)
2005	Austria U-18	2 0(0)
2005-2008	Austria U-19	10 0(5)
2007	Austria U-20	8 0(4)
2005-2008	Austria U-21	12 0(6)
2007–2012	Austria	28 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 4, 2020 2 As of September 19, 2014

Erwin "Jimmy" Hoffer (born April 14, 1987 in Baden ) is an Austrian football player in the position of a striker . He owes his nickname "Jimmy" to his junior coach Karl Brauneder .

Career

societies

Hoffer began his career as a professional footballer with Admira Wacker Mödling , for whom he played on the fighting team from 2004 to 2006. His nickname "Jimmy" came from a comparison with the killer Jimmy the tulip from the movie No half measures . According to coach Brauneder, Hoffer has the same freezing cold as the film character in front of the goal . Furthermore, the nickname is an allusion to the former US union leader Jimmy Hoffa .

Erwin Hoffer (2009)

The young striker drew attention to himself with goals in the 2005/06 season finale at Admira due to his goal instinct and his speed. Hoffer made his first appearance in the Bundesliga in the 2004/05 season. In June 2006 he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga competitor SK Rapid Vienna , where he replaced the striker Muhammet Akagündüz who had migrated to Turkey .

In 2006 he reached the semi-finals of the U-19 European Championship in Poland with the Austrian U-19 team, not least thanks to his four goals. However, he missed the defeat in the semi-final against Spain due to a yellow card suspension. In 2007 he finished fourth with the Austrian team at the U-20 World Cup in Canada . He scored three goals, which made him fifth on the top scorer list.

In addition, the striker established himself as a regular at Rapid. In the 2007/08 season, Hoffer scored three goals in Rapids' 7-0 away win against FC Red Bull Salzburg . A few games later, before the end of the season, he became Austrian champions for the first time in his career. In the following season he scored four goals in one half in a 7-2 win against Bundesliga club SCR Altach .

In the summer of 2009, Hoffer moved to the Italian Serie A club SSC Napoli after he had already played three competitive games for Rapid . The parties agreed not to disclose the transfer fee. Hoffer scored in the first competitive match for SSC Napoli in the Coppa Italia , although he did not have a secure starting place in the team for the entire following season.

For the 2010/11 season Hoffer was loaned to the German Bundesliga promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In his first competitive game, a cup game against VfL Osnabrück , Hoffer scored two goals in extra time and thus ensured Kaiserslautern advance to the second round of the DFB Cup. On September 18, 2010, he scored his first two goals in the German Bundesliga on matchday four in a 2-2 draw against TSG Hoffenheim.

For the 2011/12 season, Hoffer moved to Eintracht Frankfurt, who had been relegated to the second division , as a loan with an option to buy in case of promotion. Despite the rise, Hoffer was not firmly committed and initially returned to Naples after the season. On August 4, 2012, the loan for the 2012/13 season was extended.

For the second half of the 2012/13 season Hoffer moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern on loan . His first game after his return to Kaiserslautern was the 1-0 away win on February 4, 2013 against TSV 1860 Munich , when he came on for Mimoun Azaouagh in the 63rd minute . He scored his first goal after his return on February 8, 2013 in a 3-0 home win against Dynamo Dresden with the goal of the final score.

On August 21, 2013 Hoffer moved back to the 2nd Bundesliga at Fortuna Düsseldorf , where he signed a two-year contract until June 30, 2015. In June 2015, Karlsruher SC signed him with a two-year contract. He scored his first goal for Karlsruhe in the 2-1 away win against FSV Frankfurt on August 14, 2015, the 3rd matchday of the 2015/16 season. After a total of 50 league appearances and 6 goals for KSC, Hoffer was relegated to the third division with the club at the end of the 2016/17 season. His expiring contract was not extended, so he was without a club. He then moved to Belgium in September 2017 to join the second division KFCO Beerschot Wilrijk , where he played until his contract expired in June 2019.

In August 2019 he returned to Admira Wacker Mödling.

National team

Hoffer made his A international debut in the Austrian national team in the 0-0 draw against Paraguay on June 2, 2007 in the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium and was then part of the Austrian squad at the 2008 European Championship in his own country. There he played in the last group game against Germany and set a lot of accents. He played throughout the game, which Austria ultimately lost 1-0. Many daily newspapers agreed that despite the defeat, he was one of the assets of the Austrian team.

In the first game under Didi Constantini, he was the match winner with two goals in a 2-1 win against Romania in the World Cup qualification. He thus marked his first goals for the A-team of the Austrian national team.

successes

• 1 × Austrian champion : 2008
• 1 × participation in the U17 European Championship: 2004 (3rd place)
• 1 × participation in the U19 European Championship: 2006 (3rd place)
• 1 × participation in the U20 World Cup: 2007 (4th place)
• 1 × participation in the European Championship: 2008 (preliminary round)

Web links

Commons : Erwin Hoffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Erwin Hoffer in the weltfussball.de database
• Erwin Hoffer in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Erwin Hoffer on the official website of the ÖFB
• Erwin Hoffer in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Erwin Hoffer in the Rapid Archive

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jimmy Hoffer leaves Rapid ( Memento from July 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ rheinpfalz.de: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Hope bearers Hoffer - football: FCK lends goal scorers from SSC Napoli ) July 3, 2010. Accessed July 3, 2010
3. ↑ Lakic saves Red Devils from early cup knockouts , kicker.de
4. ↑ Hoffer remains an eagle carrier ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
5. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/startseite/581066/artikel_hoffer_der-naechste-frankfurter-fuer-den-fck.html
6. ^ Riedel: Winning goal with the first ball contact
7. ↑ Vain sunshine in the Palatinate - thanks to Karl & Co
8. ↑ Fortuna signs Erwin Hoffer
9. ↑ KSC signs Erwin "Jimmy" Hoffer ( Memento from June 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Weis' bad luck brings KSC the first three , match report on kicker.de, accessed on August 7, 2017.
11. ↑ Nieuwe spits voor KFCO Beerschot Wilrijk: Erwin Hoffer beerschotwilrijk.be, on September 11, 2017, accessed on September 11, 2017
12. ↑ Striker castling at Admira: "Jimmy" Hoffer comes back, Patrick Schmidt goes to flyeralarmadmira.at, on August 8, 2019, accessed on August 8, 2019