Jonathan Tah

Jonathan Tah
Jonathan Tah (2019)
Personnel
Surname	Jonathan Glao Tah
birthday	February 11, 1996
place of birth	Hamburg ,  Germany
size	194 cm
position	Central defense
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2009	Altona 93
2009	SC Concordia Hamburg
2009-2014	Hamburger SV
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2015	Hamburger SV	16 (0)
2013-2014	Hamburger SV II	8 (0)
2014-2015	→  Fortuna Düsseldorf  (loan)	23 (0)
2015–	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	134 (4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–2012	Germany U16	5 (1)
2012-2013	Germany U17	13 (1)
2014-2015	Germany U19	9 (1)
2015-2019	Germany U21	14 (0)
2016–	Germany	9 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 19, 2019

Jonathan Glao Tah (born February 11, 1996 in Hamburg ) is a German soccer player . He has been under contract with Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen since the 2015/16 season and is a German senior and multiple junior national player.

Club career

Beginnings and youth

Jonathan Tah had his career in the youth teams of the Hamburg district club Altona 93 and SC Concordia started before in the 2009 youth academy of Hamburger SV moved. He developed into a regular player in all teams. In January 2013, he extended his contract, which expired in summer 2014, to June 30, 2016. Clubs from the English Premier League were also interested in signing Tah.

Professional at Hamburger SV

Tah at HSV training (2014)

From February 2013 he trained once a week with the professionals and moved up to the professional squad for the 2013/14 season , in which coach Thorsten Fink planned with him as the fourth central defender after Heiko Westermann , Johan Djourou and Lasse Sobiech . Tah made his competitive debut on August 4, 2013 in the first round of the DFB Cup , when he came on for Heiko Westermann in the 83rd minute of the 4-0 win against SV Schott Jena . At 17 years, five months and 23 days, he replaced Mustafa Kučuković (17 years, ten months and six days in 2004) as the youngest HSV player to have played in a competitive game since the beginning of the Bundesliga (in March 2018 he was in this Ranking of Josha Vagnoman , who made his debut in the Bundesliga at the age of 17 years, two months and 27 days). Tah made his Bundesliga debut on August 24, 2013 when he came on for Zhi Gin Lam in the 1-0 defeat at Hertha BSC shortly before the end of the game . A week later he was in the north derby against Werder Bremen , which was lost 2-0, in the starting line-up for the first time. As a result, Tah developed into a regular under the new coach Bert van Marwijk until the end of the first half of the season. At the end of November 2013, he extended his contract term by two years to June 30, 2018. Tah was also in the starting line-up on the first two match days of the second half of the season in the 3-0 defeats against Schalke and Hoffenheim . At the beginning of February 2014, details of his contract became public. Under the new coach Mirko Slomka , the 18-year-old Tah only made a brief appearance on the penultimate match day against FC Bayern Munich - also because of the club's sporting situation, the contract details that have become public and his upcoming professional qualification . During this time he was in the second team and the A-youth team, who played like the pros against relegation.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

After Tah had not been used in the first round of the German Cup and the first two match days, he was on 1 September 2014 to the end of season 2014/15 in the 2. Bundesliga at Fortuna Dusseldorf borrowed. He made his debut for Fortuna on September 15, 2014 in a 2-0 away win against 1. FC Nürnberg from the 59th minute. He quickly rose to become one of the team's top performers. In the first half of the season, he suspended two games because of a hamstring. On February 8, 2015, the 20th matchday, Tah was sent off the pitch in a 1-1 draw against Karlsruher SC in the 39th minute because of two yellow cards within just three minutes with yellow-red and for the next league game against Erzgebirge Aue closed. At the end of the season, which Fortuna Düsseldorf finished in tenth place, Tah had 23 competitive appearances (all in the league) in which he had given a goal assist.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

For the start of training in the 2015/16 season on July 1, Tah initially returned to HSV, but traveled a few days later to the U-19 European Championship , which began on July 6 in Greece . Even before he took part in the tournament, he informed the club that he wanted to move to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . On July 16, Tah signed a five-year contract with the Werkself , dated June 30, 2020.

He made his competitive debut for Bayer Leverkusen on August 8, 2015 in the first round of the DFB Cup in the game at Sportfreunde Lotte , in which he played for the entire game. He made his first Champions League appearance on September 16, 2015 in the home game against BATE Baryssau over the entire season. Following on from this, he played all 28 competitive games in the first half of the season.

His contract with the Werkself runs until 2023.

National team career

Because of his father's origins, Tah had the opportunity to play for the Ivorian national team in addition to the German team. In an interview from January 2014 - when he was already active for German youth selections - he had not yet made a decision. Tah played for the German U17 selection , which he led as team captain. With her he won the Algarve Cup in February 2013 . He also played five times for the U16 team . In the 6-0 victory of the U19 team over the team from Kazakhstan , Tah scored the 4-0 in the 88th minute on October 9, 2014. He also led his national team on March 31, 2015 when they qualified for the 2015 U19 European Championship in a 6-0 win over the Czech Republic .

On 18 March 2016 it appointed national coach Joachim Loew for the first time in the squad of the senior national team for the friendly matches against the English (26 March), and Italian choices (March 29). He made his debut in the 3-2 loss to England at the Olympiastadion Berlin when he came on for Mats Hummels in the second half .

On June 8, 2016, Löw nominated Tah for the German squad for the European Championship in France after Antonio Rüdiger injured his cruciate ligament the day before . Tah did not come to use during the tournament. The German team was eliminated in the semifinals after a 2-0 defeat against the hosts . Tah was part of the extended squad for the 2018 World Cup and took part in the national team's training camp in Eppan , but did not travel to the tournament in Russia because national coach Joachim Löw did not appoint him to the final World Cup squad.

At the U21 European Championship 2019 , he led the German team as team captain to the final, which was lost 1: 2 to Spain .

successes

National team

• Algarve Cup winner 2013

Awards

• Youth Player of the Year 2014 ( Hamburg Football Association )
• Fritz Walter Medal in Gold: 2015 (U-19)

Private

Tah's mother is German and the father is from Ivory Coast . The parents divorced when Tah was a toddler.

In addition to training and playing at Hamburger SV, Tah obtained the advanced technical college entrance qualification at the Foorthkamp upper level in the Hamburg district of Langenhorn .

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Tah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jonathan Tah in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jonathan Tah in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Jonathan Tah in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Until 2016: HSV extended with young talent Jonathan Tah . ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Communication from Hamburger SV of January 23, 2013.  
2. ↑ Jonathan Tah: Careful construction with the professionals . ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Communication from Hamburger SV dated February 20, 2013.  
3. ↑ HSV thanks to Rudnevs in the end befitting . kicker online , August 4, 2013.
4. ↑ HSV youngster Tah breaks Bubi record . Hamburger Morgenpost , August 5, 2013.
5. ↑ Papadopoulos bursts his collar after a bloodless HSV appearance , abendblatt.de, March 10, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2018.
6. ↑ Schulz presents, Ramos completes . kicker online , August 24, 2013.
7. ↑ Perfect: Jonathan Tah extends contract .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger SV, November 27, 2013.  
8. ↑ Marco Tripmaker: Contracts for the HSV talent Jonathan Tah . Welt Online , February 6, 2014.
9. ↑ Michael Manske: Pause: Mirko Slomka protects Jonathan Tah Hamburger Morgenpost, March 5, 2014.
10. ↑ Hamburger SV: Jonathan Tah and Kerem Demirbay are awarded for one year ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 1, 2014. 
11. ^ Christoffer Kleindienst: Jonathan Tah is making an important comeback . Article from November 2, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on November 2, 2014.
12. ↑ RP Online : HSV starts without access, but with Tah , July 1, 2015, accessed on May 23, 2016.
13. ↑ Hamburger SV: "We have decided to sell Jonathan Tah" ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 14, 2015, accessed May 23, 2016. 
14. ↑ Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Bayer 04 sign German U19 captain Jonathan Tah ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , July 16, 2016, accessed May 23, 2016. 
15. ^ Match report Sportfreunde Lotte against Bayer 04 Leverkusen from August 8, 2015 ; kicker.de, accessed on August 16, 2015.
16. ↑ Match report Bayer 04 Leverkusen versus BATE Baryssau from September 16, 2015 ; kicker.de, accessed on September 17, 2015.
17. ↑ Jonathan Tah's performance data in the 2015/16 season ; transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 19, 2016.
18. ↑ Bayer 04 Leverkusen: Jonathan Tah extended until 2023 , February 25, 2018, accessed on February 26, 2018.
19. ↑ ^{a b} HSV-Juwel Tah: "We have to be more constant" . German Football Association from January 31, 2014.
20. ↑ DFB wins the Algarve Cup with three red pants . ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger SV, February 13, 2013.  
21. ↑ European Championship qualification: Timo Werner shoots U19 to victory . Article from October 9, 2014 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on October 11, 2014.
22. ↑ Henric Jakobs: Fortuna Düsseldorf is happy about HSV talent Tah . Article from April 1, 2015 in the Abendblatt.de portal , accessed on April 4, 2015.
23. ↑ Löw gets Jonathan Tah ; sueddeutsche.de, published and accessed on March 18, 2016.
24. ↑ Löw nominates Tah for Rüdiger ; dfb.de, published and accessed on June 8, 2016.
25. ↑ Germany against France of July 7, 2016 ; kicker.de, accessed on July 8, 2016.
26. ↑ at U21 European Championship in goal - Bayer's Tah captain on June 15, 2019 ; kicker.de, accessed on June 18, 2019.
27. ↑ It's about coal! Dirty game about the HSV super talent Jonathan Tah . Hamburger Morgenpost from February 4, 2014.
28. ↑ Kai-Uwe Hesse: Hamburg's new super-Bubi Tah (17). In: BILD.de. September 30, 2013, accessed April 12, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Jonathan Tah is the model student from Altona ; Abendblatt.de, March 24, 2016, accessed April 16, 2017.