Felix Wiedwald

Felix Wiedwald
Felix Wiedwald (2012)
Personnel
birthday	March 15, 1990
place of birth	Thedinghausen ,  Germany
size	190 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
1997-1999	TSV Achim
1999-2009	Werder Bremen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2011	Werder Bremen II	39 (0)
2010-2011	Werder Bremen	0 (0)
2011-2013	MSV Duisburg	47 (0)
2013-2015	Eintracht Frankfurt	11 (0)
2013	Eintracht Frankfurt II	1 (0)
2015-2017	Werder Bremen	59 (0)
2017-2018	Leeds United	28 (0)
2018–	Eintracht Frankfurt	3 (0)
2019	→ MSV Duisburg (loan)	15 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2009	Germany U20	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Felix Wiedwald (born March 15, 1990 in Thedinghausen ) is a German football goalkeeper . He is under contract with Eintracht Frankfurt .

career

In the club

Beginnings in Bremen

Wiedwald started playing football at TSV Achim. At the age of nine he moved to Werder Bremen , where he went through all youth departments and won the North German championship with the C and A juniors . In his last year of youth, he occasionally took part in the training of the professional squad, with whom he completed a training camp in January 2009. For the 2009/10 season he became part of the second team, for which he made his professional league debut on September 26, 2009 in a 2-2 away game at FC Carl Zeiss Jena in the third division . He then regularly guarded the gate of the reserve and received a professional contract dated until 2012 in February 2010.

Via Duisburg to Frankfurt

In the summer of 2011, Wiedwald moved to MSV Duisburg . He signed a three-year contract until 2014. Here he was initially a substitute goalkeeper behind Florian Fromlowitz and had to wait until November 18, 2011 (14th matchday) until he was preferred to Fromlowitz for the first time in the home game against Eintracht Braunschweig .

After MSV Duisburg's forced relegation, Wiedwald moved to Eintracht Frankfurt as a substitute goalkeeper behind Kevin Trapp for the 2013/14 season . He signed a contract until June 30, 2015. He made his competitive debut for Eintracht Frankfurt on December 12, 2013 in the Europa League against APOEL Nicosia ; he made his first appearance in the Bundesliga on February 2, 2014, when he came on for the injured Kevin Trapp in the game against Bayern Munich .

On the 5th matchday of the 2014/15 season Trapp suffered a severe syndesmosis against 1. FSV Mainz 05 and Wiedwald was substituted on in the final phase. On the 6th matchday, Wiedwald was in the Frankfurt goal for the first time in the Bundesliga in the 2-1 away win at Hamburger SV , after Eintracht officials trusted him as Trapp's representative despite the short-term commitment of the more experienced goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand was.

Return to Werder Bremen

For the 2015/16 season Wiedwald returned to Werder Bremen , where he received a contract until June 30, 2017 and the shirt number 42. In Bremen, Wiedwald fought a duel with Jaroslav Drobný for the position of the goalkeeper. After playing more than 20 Bundesliga games in the 2016/17 season , his contract term was extended by another year.

Leeds United

Nevertheless, he left Bremen at the end of the season and joined the English second division club Leeds United .

Return to Frankfurt and Duisburg

Wiedwald returned to Eintracht Frankfurt for the 2018/19 season. Mid-June 2018 he signed with the Cup Winners' Cup the previous season a contract until 2021. After being in the first round behind Kevin Trapp and Frederik Rønnow was disbanded duty Stakes, he returned early in January 2019 to the end of the second division season 2018/19 on loan to MSV Duisburg back , with whom he was relegated at the end of the season as bottom of the table.

In the national team

After his first appearances in the junior division, Wiedwald was appointed once for a junior team of the DFB . He was in the U20 squad for the international match against Austria on November 13, 2009 and guarded the goal in the second half.

Web links

Commons : Felix Wiedwald  - Collection of Images

• Felix Wiedwald in the database of weltfussball.de
• Felix Wiedwald in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Felix Wiedwald in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.werder.de/aktuelles/news/meldung.php/14803/Felix-Wiedwald-fliegt-von-einem-Ablebnis-zum-Naechsten (link not available)
2. ↑ Wiedwald strengthens unity in goal ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Eintracht Frankfurt commits Timo Hildebrand ( memento from September 25, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ), eintracht.de from September 25, 2014, accessed on September 29, 2014
4. ↑ Werder signed Felix Wiedwald and Ulisses Garcia. (No longer available online.) Www.werder.de, May 26, 2015, archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on May 26, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Felix Wiedwald remains - "definitely"
6. ↑ Fix: Werders Wiedwald is moving to Leeds
7. ↑ Returnees signs three-year contract on eintracht.de from June 19, 2018, accessed on June 19, 2018
8. ↑ Felix Wiedwald changes on loan to MSV Duisburg , eintracht.de, accessed on January 2, 2019