Kevin Friesenbichler

Kevin Friesenbichler
Kevin Friesenbichler (2016)
Personnel
birthday	May 6, 1994
place of birth	Weiz ,  Austria
size	188 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2008	SC Weiz
2008-2009	FK Austria Vienna
2009-2010	FC Admira Wacker Mödling
2010–2012	FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2014	FC Bayern Munich II	36 (16)
2014-2016	Benfica Lisbon B	0 0(0)
2014-2015	→  Lechia Gdańsk  (loan)	17 0(5)
2015-2016	→  FK Austria Wien  (loan)	31 0(6)
2016-2019	FK Austria Vienna	75 (15)
2019	→  Wolfsberger AC  (loan)	12 0(2)
2019-2020	VfL Osnabrück	6 0(0)
2020–	SK Sturm Graz	12 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009-2010	Austria U16	6 (10)
2010	Austria U17	5 0(3)
2011	Austria U18	2 0(0)
2012	Austria U19	5 0(3)
2013-2016	Austria U21	19 0(8)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 5, 2020 2 As of November 11, 2016

Kevin Friesenbichler (born May 6, 1994 in Weiz ) is an Austrian football player . The striker moved to Bayern Munich as a youth , but later did not get beyond appearances in the amateur team . After only one season in Poland, he returned to Austria and moved to the second division VfL Osnabrück in the summer of 2019 , which he left after half a year and joined SK Sturm Graz . He also played numerous international matches for various Austrian junior national teams.

Career

societies

Beginnings in Austria and Munich

Friesenbichler began playing football in Weiz , his birthplace in Styria , at SC Weiz , which is located there. After eight years he moved to the Academy of Vienna Austria . In 2009 he went to the academy of FC Admira Wacker Mödling in Lower Austria . In 2010 he came to Germany to the youth performance center of FC Bayern Munich . Although he was only 16 years old, he mostly played for the U19s in the A-Junioren-Bundesliga Süd / Südwest, but was out of action for a long time in the spring of 2011 due to an injury. With the team he only reached seventh place in the table. In the following season he was with nine goals in 14 league games - he again missed a few games due to injury - significantly involved in the success of the A-Juniors, who took first place in the league with six points and thus for the final round of the German A- Junior Championship was qualified. With the team he reached the final there , but it was lost to Schalke 04 . In addition, he was on the bench once during an amateur game in the fourth-class Bavarian regional league that season . He then played for half a year in the youth team before he was taken over to the second team after the winter break in 2012/13. There he scored his first goal in his first point game on March 23, 2013 in a 3-2 home win against TSV Buchbach with a 2-1 goal from a penalty kick in the 56th minute.

Via Lisbon to Poland and Austria

In the summer of 2014 he moved to the second Portuguese division to Benfica Lisbon B , the second team of the Portuguese record champions Benfica Lisbon , for which he was never used. In August of the same year he was awarded to the Polish first division club Lechia Gdańsk , with whom he finished the championship round as fourth . In 2015 it was awarded again, this time to his former youth club Austria Wien. He made his Bundesliga debut on matchday two of the 2015/16 season against SCR Altach . In July 2016, after taking part in the pre-season with Benfica, he was awarded again to Austria. In the 2016/17 season , the striker played for the club in 32 of 36 league games and scored five goals, but was unable to earn a regular place. In July 2017, Austria took him under contract without returning to Portugal.

In January 2019, he was awarded to the league competitor Wolfsberger AC until the end of the season, with whom he qualified third in the table for the group stage of the Europa League .

VfL Osnabrück

In the German 2. Bundesliga ascended VfL Osnabrück took the striker to season 2019/20 for two years under contract. Due to an operation on his knee, Friesenbichler only played six league games and played in the 2: 3 against RB Leipzig in the DFB Cup .

SK Sturm Graz

The Austrian returned home at the end of January 2020 after Osnabrück had signed another striker with Assan Ceesay , and moved to SK Sturm Graz , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2021.

National team

Friesenbichler played his first international match as a 15-year-old for the U16 national team on August 14, 2009 in an 8-0 win in the international test match against Liechtenstein , in which he scored two goals. This was followed by 36 more appearances for the Austrian junior national teams. With the U21 national team , he narrowly failed in qualifying for the 2017 European Championship in the play-offs against the Spanish U21 .

Others

Friesenbichler is the son of Bruno Friesenbichler and nephew of Günter Friesenbichler , both former football players who also played in the first division. His younger brother Robin is also a footballer who has been active for the Austrian third division club SC Weiz since the 2016/17 season .

Web links

Commons : Kevin Friesenbichler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kevin Friesenbichler in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kevin Friesenbichler in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Performance data for the 2010/11 season , transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 3, 2019. Note: Possible assignments for the U16s in the B-Junior Bayern League are not considered here.
2. ↑ Performance data for the 2011/12 season , transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 3, 2019
3. ↑ FCB II starts the football year 2013 with a win , fcbayern.com, on March 23, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2017
4. ↑ Austria eist Friesenbichler from Benfica los fk-ausria.at, on July 22, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2016
5. ↑ FK Austria Wien obliges Friesenbichler long-term fk-austria.at, on July 1, 2017, accessed on July 1, 2017
6. ↑ Friesenbichler fix rzpelletswac.at, on January 12, 2019, accessed on January 12, 2019
7. ↑ VfL obliges Friesenbichler , vfl.de, accessed on July 2, 2019
8. ↑ Friesenbichler from now on in black sksturm.at, on January 30, 2020, accessed on January 30, 2020
9. ↑ Robin Friesenbichler in the team of SC Weiz on fussballoesterreich.at