Julian Brandt

Julian Brandt
Julian Brandt (2019)
Personnel
birthday	May 2, 1996
place of birth	Bremen ,  Germany
size	185 cm
position	Attacking midfield wing attack
Juniors
Years	station
2001-2009	SC Borgfeld
2009-2011	FC Oberneuland
2011-2013	VfL Wolfsburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2014-2019	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	165 (34)
2014	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	1 0(1)
2019–	Borussia Dortmund	33 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011	Germany U15	2 0(2)
2011–2012	Germany U16	3 0(1)
2012-2013	Germany U17	19 0(5)
2013-2014	Germany U19	14 0(2)
2015	Germany U20	6 0(2)
2015-2016	Germany U21	8 0(1)
2016	Germany Olympia	6 0(0)
2016–	Germany	31 0(3)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 19, 2019

Julian Brandt (born May 2, 1996 in Bremen ) is a German football player . The offensive player left his hometown as a teenager and came to Bayer 04 Leverkusen via VfL Wolfsburg , where he asserted himself in professional football and became a German national player . He also won the silver medal with the Olympic selection at the 2016 Summer Olympics . He has been playing for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund since the 2019/20 season .

Career

societies

Beginnings

Brandt began his career in the youth teams of SC Borgfeld and FC Oberneuland . For the 2011/12 season he moved to the VfL Wolfsburg youth training center . In Lower Saxony he was initially used in the U17; there he scored 14 goals in 25 games in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga . For the 2012/13 season Brandt moved up to the U19 . In his first season in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga he scored 13 goals in 23 games in the regular season. In the final round, at the end of which Brandt and his team won the championship in the final against Hansa Rostock , he scored another goal in three appearances. In the first half of the 2013/14 season , he scored six more goals in 14 games.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Brandt moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen during the winter break of the 2013/14 season . He signed a professional contract that ran until June 30, 2019. On February 15, 2014 (21st matchday), he played his first Bundesliga appearance in the 2-1 defeat at home against FC Schalke 04 when he came on for Heung-Min Son in the 82nd minute . On February 18, 2014 he made his European debut in the first leg of the first leg in the Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain , in which he was substituted on in the second half. In his seventh Bundesliga game for Leverkusen, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the 1: 2 defeat in the away game at Hamburger SV on April 4, 2014 (29th matchday) with the 1-1 goal in the 58th minute. On December 7, 2016, he scored his first Champions League goal in the home game against AS Monaco with the 2-0 goal. From the 2016/17 season he was definitely one of the regular members of the team.

His contract term at Bayer 04 Leverkusen was extended early in April 2018 to mid-2021.

In his last season for Bayer, Brandt provided the most assists and, as a leader in attacking midfield, played a significant role in reaching fourth place, with which the team was able to qualify for the Champions League.

In the context of Football Leaks it became known that Brandt's father Jürgen had negotiated a contract with the club himself in the course of signing the contract with Bayer Leverkusen, which initially gave him 300,000 euros and up to 250,000 for each subsequent season his son played in Leverkusen Euro should have brought in.

Borussia Dortmund

For the season 2019/20 Brandt moved to Borussia Dortmund . He received a contract that ran until June 30, 2024. In August 2019, Brandt won his first title with the club when the double winner of the previous season, FC Bayern Munich , was defeated 2-0 in the DFL Supercup . On matchday 1, the midfielder was on the field for the first time after a substitution for BVB in the Bundesliga and scored the 5-1 final against FC Augsburg . Initially, head coach Favre put the North German, who had to struggle with adjustment difficulties due to the higher level of performance, on the wings until he finally found the role in midfield that he had already played convincingly in Leverkusen and that Mario Götze actually held before his performance low. Sometimes central, sometimes offensive, Brandt, who was able to establish himself as a regular player from November 2019, was soon a fixed point in the team's structure. While teammates like Axel Witsel behind him ensured peace and order, it was Brandt's job to set offensive accents and serve the strikers and wingers. After the injury-related loss of the captain Marco Reus , the offensive player also began to take his important position as the last man behind the mostly solo striker. He was runner-up with BVB and was able to collect 20 scorer points.

National team

Brandt (left) in the quarter-finals of the Olympic football tournament against Portugal, 2016

On May 17, 2016, Brandt was nominated for the first time for the senior national team by national coach Joachim Löw . He was one of the 27 players for the preliminary DFB squad for the European Championship in France . On May 29, 2016 he made his debut in the friendly against Slovakia , in which he came on for Mario Gómez in the second half . However, he was not accepted into the final EM squad.

On July 15, 2016 Brandt was appointed to the DFB squad for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . In all six games Brandt was called up over the full game distance and in the end won the silver medal with the DFB selection. Although he did not score a goal, he was still able to participate in nine of the 22 tournament goals as a template provider. He was named Player of the Game in the quarter-finals against Portugal. On November 1, 2016, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf together with the Olympic soccer team .

Brandt was appointed to the German team for the international matches, including the Confederations Cup in Russia, taking place in June and July 2017 . In the 7-0 win against San Marino on June 10, 2017 in the qualifying game for the 2018 World Cup, he scored his first goal for the senior national team. In the subsequent Confederations Cup he was used in three of the five games and ultimately won the title with Germany by beating Chile 1-0 in the final .

He was appointed to the final squad for the 2018 World Cup . He made his World Cup debut in the first group game in the 1-0 defeat against Mexico , when he came on for Timo Werner in the 86th minute . Brandt was also substituted on late in the other two group games of the World Cup - against Sweden and South Korea he came on for Jonas Hector in the 87th and 78th minutes respectively . After the group stage, Germany was in last place and was eliminated for the first time in the history of the German Football Association in the preliminary round of a football World Cup.

successes

VfL Wolfsburg

• German A youth champion : 2013

Borussia Dortmund

• DFL Supercup winner: 2019

National team

• U17 Vice European Champion : 2012
• U19 European Champion : 2014
• Olympic silver medal : 2016
• FIFA Confederations Cup Winner: 2017

Awards and records

• Fritz Walter Medal 2013 in silver (Category: U17 youngsters)
• Fritz Walter Medal 2014 in gold (Category: U18 youngsters)
• Most consecutive Bundesliga games by a U20 player with at least one goal: 6

Web links

Commons : Julian Brandt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Julian Brandt in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Julian Brandt in the database of weltfussball.de
• Julian Brandt in the database of kicker.de
• Julian Brandt in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Julian Brandt in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bvb.de
2. ↑ Brandt changes to Bayer. bundesliga.de , December 12, 2013, archived from the original on February 15, 2014 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Bayer 04 extended with national player Brandt ; bayer04.de, published and accessed on April 4, 2018
4. ↑ Rafael Buschmann, Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Stephan Heffner, Christoph Henrichs, Andreas Meyhoff, Nicola Naber, Jörg Schmitt, Alfred Weinzierl, Michael Wulzinger: Football Leaks: The brute business with young footballers. In: Spiegel Online . December 11, 2016, accessed May 15, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Borussia Dortmund sign Julian Brandt , bvb.de, May 22, 2019, accessed on May 22, 2019.
6. ↑ Dortmund wins Supercup against Bayern Munich , spiegel.de, accessed on August 3, 2019
7. ↑ A player for the wow effect , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on June 29, 2020
8. ↑ Löw's EM selection: "There is no potential candidate for removal" . dfb.de , May 17, 2016, accessed on May 21, 2016.
   The expanded EM squad for the 2016 European Championship in France (June 10 to July 10). In: dfb.de. Archived from the original on May 21, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Team and coach: The roster for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (August 3 to 20, 2016). In: dfb.de. July 15, 2016, archived from the original on July 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Performance data of Julian Brandt in the soccer tournament of the Olympic Games 2016. transfermarkt.de , accessed on August 18, 2016.
11. ↑ semi-finals! Strong Germany defeated Portugal. In: kicker online . August 13, 2016, accessed February 7, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf . Website of the Office of the Federal President , November 1, 2016, accessed on November 14, 2016.
13. ↑ Unchanged squad for Confed Cup . dfb.de, June 7, 2017, accessed June 18, 2017.
14. ↑ Germany - San Marino, 10.06.2017 - World Cup qualification Europe - match report . transfermarkt.de , accessed on February 7, 2018.
15. ↑ The squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Retrieved June 4, 2018 . 
16. ↑ Bad start: Lozano punishes weak DFB-Elf. In: kicker.de . June 17, 2018, accessed June 18, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Michael Stricz: Fritz Walter Medal 2013: The winners: These are the best talents in Germany . Spox.com , July 15, 2013, accessed February 7, 2018.
18. ↑ Brandt would love to play the EM . transfermarkt.de, May 1, 2016, accessed on February 7, 2018.