Fabian Herbers

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Fabian Herbers
Personnel
birthday 17th August 1993
place of birth Ahaus ,  Germany
size 182 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
FC Ottenstein
SuS city wages
2005-2011 FC Twente Enschede
2011–2012 Prussia Munster
2013-2015 Creighton University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2013 VfL Rhede 31 (7)
2014-2015 SpVgg Vreden 2 (0)
2016-2018 Philadelphia Union 54 (4)
2016-2018 →  Bethlehem Steel  (farm team) 23 (8)
2019– Chicago Fire 17 (3)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 7, 2020

Fabian Herbers (born August 17, 1993 in Ahaus ) is a German soccer player . The attacking midfielder is under contract in Major League Soccer with Chicago Fire .

Career

youth

Born and raised in Ahaus, Herbers learned to play football at FC Ottenstein . He later moved to SuS Stadtlohn and then to the youth of the Dutch first division club FC Twente Enschede , where he played for six years. From there he returned to Münsterland in 2011 and joined the A-youth of Preußen Münster . For Prussia he scored four goals in 25 games in the A-Juniors Bundesliga West during the 2011/12 season .

VfL Rhede

In summer 2012 he moved to VfL Rhede and played in the Oberliga Niederrhein in the 2012/13 season . There he was on the field 31 times and scored seven goals.

Change to the USA

In 2013, Herbers went to Creighton University in Omaha , Nebraska , where she studied business administration . For the next three years he successfully played college soccer for the Creighton Bluejays in the Big East Conference . He played 62 games for the Bluejays and scored 28 times. During that time, he was voted Big East Offensive Player of the Year twice .

During the breaks of the college season, he continued to play football in Germany and was always on the field for the first team of SpVgg Vreden , which plays in the Westphalia League.

Major League Soccer

On January 11, 2016, he was selected as the sixth player in the MLS SuperDraft 2016 by the Philadelphia Union . In the MLS, he made his debut on March 6, 2016 in the game against FC Dallas . He played for the entire time also in the farm team Bethlehem Steel in the United Soccer League . There he scored a goal in his first game on March 25, 2016. This was also the first goal in the history of the franchise.

For the season 2019 changed Herbers to Chicago Fire .

Others

Herbers gained greater fame in German-speaking countries when he confessed himself to being a fan of the mixed hack podcast by comedian Felix Lobrecht and author Tommi Schmitt, who have since celebrated him again and again as the “god of football”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fabian Herbers receives professional contract in the USA . muensterlandzeitung.de. January 15, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ From student to professional soccer player in the USA . Sport Supreme. March 26, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Union wheel and deal to land Yaro, Rosenberry, Herbers at SuperDraft ( English ) delcotimes.com. January 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ FC Dallas vs. Philadelphia Union - MatchCenter . In: MLSsoccer.com MatchCenter .
  5. ↑ a b Union's Fabian Herbers talks about historic goal, roommate situation and his personal chauffeur ( English ) phillyvoice.com. March 28, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  6. ↑ Chicago Fire Soccer Club Acquires Forward Fabian Herbers , chicago-fire.com, December 9, 2018, accessed March 27, 2019.
  7. ↑ Robin Tillenburg: World Champion, Champion and a "football god" - the Germans in the MLS . Sportschau.de. February 28, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ Once in the upper league, now with Schweini in Chicago (interview with Fabian Herbers). Football.de. July 13, 2019. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Herbers, Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Ahaus , Germany