Karim Matmour

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Karim Matmour
Karim Matmour 2012.jpg
Karim Matmour (2012)
Personnel
birthday June 25, 1985
place of birth Strasbourg ,  France
size 181 cm
position Midfield / storm
Juniors
Years station
1990 / 91-1999 ASPV Strasbourg
1999-2003 Racing Strasbourg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2001-2003 Racing Strasbourg B 3 0(0)
2003-2004 ASPV Strasbourg
2004-2006 SC Freiburg II 51 (15)
2006-2008 Sc freiburg 79 (10)
2008-2011 Borussia M'gladbach 77 0(4)
2011-2013 Eintracht Frankfurt 52 0(7)
2013-2015 1. FC Kaiserslautern 56 0(5)
2015 al-Arabi 2 0(2)
2016 Huddersfield Town 16 0(1)
2016-2017 TSV 1860 Munich 13 0(0)
2017 Adelaide United 8 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2007–2012 Algeria 30 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2018 Kehler FV (assistant trainer)
2018 Kehler FV
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Karim Matmour ( Arabic كريم مطمور, DMG Karīm Maṭmūr ; * June 25, 1985 in Strasbourg ) is a former French - Algerian soccer player who was used as a midfielder or striker during his playing career. He played in the Bundesliga for Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt and made 101 appearances (five goals) in the top German division. Due to the origins of his family, Matmour was also eligible to play for the Algerian national team, with which he took part in the 2010 Africa Cup in Angola and in the same year in the World Cup in South Africa . Karim Matmour played 30 games (two goals) for the desert foxes .

Origin, family and youth

Karim Matmour was born in 1985 as one of six children to Algerian immigrants in Strasbourg and grew up there.

Player career

Matmour started playing football at ASPV Strasbourg at the age of five . In 1999 he moved to the youth department of the then first division team Racing Strasbourg . From 2001 he came to missions in the reserve team. In the winter break of the 2003/04 season he went back to his home club.

In the 2004/05 season he moved across the nearby border to SC Freiburg . In July 2005, Volker Finke took Matmour to the training camp for the professionals who had previously been relegated from the Bundesliga . On January 28, 2006, the 19th matchday of the 2nd Bundesliga , he made his debut for the professional team of SC Freiburg in the game against FC Carl Zeiss Jena . On the 32nd matchday in the game against Hansa Rostock he scored his first goal. After three goals in 31 games, he narrowly missed promotion to the Bundesliga with SC Freiburg at the end of the season. In July 2007, Matmour extended his contract term to 2010 and scored five goals in five assists in 32 games in the 2007/08 second division season.

For the 2008/09 season he moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach , which had previously been promoted to the Bundesliga. He made his competitive debut for Borussia on August 9, 2008 in the first round match of the DFB Cup against VfB Fichte Bielefeld in the starting eleven. He played his first Bundesliga game at the start of the season on August 17, 2008 in the 1: 3 defeat against VfB Stuttgart . Matmour marked his first Bundesliga goal on August 30, 2008 (3rd matchday) in a 3-2 win over Werder Bremen . In this season, in which Borussia played against relegation and finished in 15th place, Matmour was used in all 34 Bundesliga games and scored three goals. In the 2009/10 season, in which they fluctuated between 11th and 13th place, he scored a goal in 25 Bundesliga appearances and ended up in twelfth place in the table with Borussia. In the 2010/11 season, in which Borussia Mönchengladbach finished 18th after the first half of the season and saved himself to 16th place after the change of coach from Michael Frontzeck to Lucien Favre , Matmour made 18 appearances in the Bundesliga. He did not score a goal.

On July 1, 2011, Matmour moved to relegated from the Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt . He played his first competitive game for Eintracht on July 15, 2011, when he came on as a substitute in the 80th minute on the first day of the 2nd Bundesliga match at SpVgg Greuther Fürth and scored the winning goal in the 89th minute. He had a total of 28 missions this season, four of them over the full season. He scored six goals and rose as second in the table with Eintracht in the Bundesliga.

In November 2012, Matmour was sent off the pitch twice within seven days, which was a novelty in the Bundesliga.

For the 2013/14 season , Matmour moved to 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He signed a contract with the second division team until June 30, 2015. On July 20, 2013 he made his debut in the away game against SC Paderborn , which FCK won 1-0. By the end of the 2014/15 season, he had played 56 second division games for FCK, in which he scored five goals.

After his contract expired in the summer of 2015, Matmour moved to Kuwait for free in the Kuwaiti Premier League for the club al-Arabi . In January 2016 he signed a contract with the English second division club Huddersfield Town . His contract was not renewed after the end of the season because there was no agreement on the salary.

For the 2016/17 season , Matmour moved to the German second division club TSV 1860 Munich , with whom he received a two-year contract. At the beginning of 2017, there was a serious rift between the club and Matmour. Coach Vitor Pereira sorted Matmour out of the squad during the 2016/17 winter break, among other things because Matmour was a ten and he preferred a system without a tens. Matmour should only continue training in the club's U21s. Headlines also made headlines when Matmours and his partner were invited to a team dinner at the club in February 2017. There were numerous other media speculations about an escalation of the dispute, but without receiving official confirmation from the player or the club. In fact, there was a labor court hearing a few weeks later, but the interim injunction sought by Matmour for the right to training with the professional team was rejected, while the main proceedings were postponed. Matmour unilaterally drew a contract clause in March 2017 that extended the contract with 1860 for one year until 2019. This was no longer valid after relegation from the 2nd Bundesliga and the non-receipt for the 3rd division .

Matmour found a new employer in August 2017 with the Australian first division club Adelaide United .

After only 11 appearances (8 in the league, 3 in the cup), Matmour dissolved his contract with the club in December 2017 and ended his active career.

National team

On February 7, 2007 Matmour made his debut in the Algerian national team in a 2-1 win over Libya . He scored two goals in 30 international matches.

In mid-November 2009 he qualified with the national team for the 2010 World Cup . In the group stage he faced Slovenia , England and the USA . Matmour was used in all games. At the beginning of the year he had already participated in the 2010 African Cup of Nations and scored a goal in five games.

Matmour stated on May 3, 2012 that he was no longer available for the national team because he wanted to concentrate on his club career. He last played for his country against Gambia on February 29, 2012.

Coaching career

On January 6, 2018, Matmour joined the national division Kehler FV as an assistant coach. Matmour took over his post as head coach at the start of the 2018/19 season, but resigned in October. In February 2020 he became a scout for Bayer 04 Leverkusen for France.

Play style

Because of his high basic speed and agility, but also because of his often lack of overview on the ball, Matmour's style of play is often reminiscent of the behavior of a bat . As a result, he was nicknamed "Batmour" by fans.

Others

At the beginning of May 2007, Matmour criticized the later French President, Nicolas Sarkozy , and accused him of creating conflicts because of derogatory statements against young French people with a migrant background.

Matmour speaks French , German and understands Arabic according to its own statements. Matmour is married to the singer of the German band Milk & Honey , Manel Filali.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sarah Faupel: Karim Matmour, the nimble wing racer. In: Deutsche Welle. Deutsche Welle, December 14, 2010, accessed on June 5, 2020 (Karim Matmour describes himself as French).
  2. ^ A b c Matmour, Karim: Karim Matmour: Sarkozy created conflicts. (No longer available online.) Online Verlag GmbH Freiburg, archived from the original on October 8, 2012 ; accessed on April 7, 2012 (interview with fudder.de). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fudder.de
  3. ↑ Rogowski, Uwe: Fotheringham in the "intensive test". kicker online, July 7, 2005, accessed April 7, 2012 .
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  5. ↑ Transfermarkt GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): Hansa Rostock - SC Freiburg 1: 2. May 3, 2006, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  6. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2007, Retrieved April 7, 2012 .
  7. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour stays until 2010. July 13, 2007, accessed on April 7, 2012 .
  8. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2008, Retrieved April 7, 2012 .
  9. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Gladbach obliges Matmour. June 4, 2008, Retrieved April 7, 2012 .
  10. ↑ kicker online (ed.): VfB Fichte Bielefeld - Borussia M'gladbach. August 9, 2008, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  11. ↑ kicker online (publisher): 1. Bundesliga - matchday / table. 2009, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  12. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2009, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  13. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Borussia M'gladbach. 2010, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  14. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2010, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  15. ↑ kicker online (publisher): 1. Bundesliga - matchday / table. 2010, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  16. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Favre follows Frontzeck - contract until 2013. February 14, 2011, accessed on April 7, 2012 .
  17. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2011, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  18. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour changes to Eintracht, Wolf does not. July 1, 2011, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  19. ↑ kicker online (ed.): SpVgg Greuther Fürth - Eintracht Frankfurt. July 15, 2011, accessed April 7, 2012 .
  20. ↑ kicker online (ed.): Matmour, Karim. 2012, accessed May 17, 2012 .
  21. ↑ Two evictions in one week. t-online.de, December 1, 2012, accessed on September 27, 2015 .
  22. ↑ FCK signs Karim Matmour ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archived in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ List of transfers for the 2015/16 season on the 1. KCK website, accessed on August 19, 2015
  24. ↑ Karim Matmour: Huddersfield Town sign Algeria international BBC Sport, accessed on January 21, 2016 (English)
  25. ↑ a b Claudius Mayer: Eichin wants to get EM kickers - Matmour change fixed. In: tz . June 28, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Sport1.de: Mobbing? Karim Matmour unloaded from celebration at 1860 Munich . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on May 30, 2017]).
  27. ↑ FOCUS Online: The case of Matmour: Who does not fit in 1860, is bullied out by the Ismaik henchman . In: FOCUS Online . ( focus.de [accessed on May 30, 2017]).
  28. ^ Sport1.de: Zoff at 1860 Munich: Lawsuit and extension of Karim Matmour . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on May 30, 2017]).
  29. ↑ Sport1.de: Mobbing? Karim Matmour unloaded from celebration at 1860 Munich . In: Sport1.de . ( sport1.de [accessed on May 30, 2017]).
  30. ↑ Abendzeitung, Germany: TSV 1860 Munich: Karim Matmour with Hasan Ismaik against Würzburger Kickers in the stands . ( Abendzeitung-muenchen.de [accessed on May 30, 2017]).
  31. ↑ Bierofka distances himself from Matmour's allegations . In: https://www.tz.de/ . March 15, 2017 ( tz.de [accessed May 30, 2017]).
  32. ↑ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: The lion year to roar . May 30, 2017 ( spox.com [accessed May 30, 2017]).
  33. ↑ fourfourtwo.com.au: Adelaide United sign Algerian midfielder Karim Matmour (15 Aug 2017)
  34. ^ Adelaide United confirm departure of Algerian international Karim Matmour after just 11 games at the club. In: adelaidenow.com.au. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  35. ↑ DZFOOT (ed.): MATMOUR Karim. Archived from the original on February 9, 2013 ; Retrieved on April 8, 2012 (archived in the Internet Archive ).
  36. ↑ FIFA (ed.): Algeria. 2010, accessed on April 18, 2012 (team line-ups can be found by clicking on the individual games).
  37. ↑ Karim Matmour leaves the Algerian national soccer team. algerien-heute.de, May 4, 2013, accessed on August 7, 2013 .
  38. ↑ Karim Matmour - national team. transfermarkt.de, accessed on August 7, 2013 .
  39. ↑ Matmour becomes assistant trainer at Kehler FV. In: dieblaue24.com. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  40. ↑ Karim Matmour new head coach at Kehler FV. In: BO.de. Retrieved July 11, 2018 .
  41. ↑ Michael Fissler and Felix Gieger: Matmour is no longer a trainer in Kehl. In: Black Forest Messenger. Schwarzwälder Bote Mediengesellschaft mbH, October 10, 2018, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  42. ↑ Achim Müller: Rival counters Gladbach success with a new French spy. In: Express. DuMont.next GmbH & Co. KG, February 21, 2020, accessed on June 5, 2020 .
  43. ↑ The man from the field service in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 22, 2011, accessed January 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Matmour, Karim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Algerian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg , France