Kevin Grosskreutz

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Kevin Grosskreutz
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Kevin Großkreutz (2016)
Personnel
birthday July 19, 1988
place of birth Dortmund ,  Germany
size 187 cm
position Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years station
1992–? VfL Kemminghausen
DJK Rot-Weiß Obereving
FC Merkur 07 Dortmund
000? –2002 Borussia Dortmund
2002-2006 LR Ahlen / Rot Weiss Ahlen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006 LR Ahlen II 9 0(4)
2006-2009 Red and white awls 95 (23)
2006-2007 Rot Weiss Ahlen II 2 0(2)
2009-2015 Borussia Dortmund 176 (23)
2015 Borussia Dortmund II 7 0(0)
2015 Galatasaray Istanbul 0 0(0)
2016-2017 VfB Stuttgart 26 0(1)
2017-2018 SV Darmstadt 98 27 0(3)
2018– KFC Uerdingen 05 42 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2010 Germany U21 1 0(1)
2010-2014 Germany 6 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2018-2019 VfL Kemminghausen (assistant coach)
2019– Türkspor Dortmund (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 9, 2020

Kevin Großkreutz (born July 19, 1988 in Dortmund ) is a German soccer player . With Borussia Dortmund he was German champion twice and with the German national team in 2014 in Brazil world champion . He is under contract with third division club KFC Uerdingen 05 .

youth

Großkreutz grew up in the Dortmund district of Eving . He was always closely connected to the Borussia Dortmund club. At the age of seven he had his first season ticket.

Großkreutz started playing soccer at VfL Kemminghausen at the age of four . He then played for DJK Rot-Weiß Obereving , FC Merkur 07 Dortmund and finally for Borussia Dortmund. In 2002, however, he had to leave the club again because he was classified as too thin. Großkreutz therefore switched to Rot Weiss Ahlen . There he made the jump from youth to the first team.

Career as a player

Red and white awls

At Rot Weiss Ahlen he played as a regular player in the Regionalliga Nord from 2006 . In 2008 the team and teammate Marco Reus were promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga , in which the offensive player was the second most successful goalscorer of his team with twelve goals and was voted into the eleven of the year by the kicker sports magazine .

Borussia Dortmund

Kevin Großkreutz in training at Borussia Dortmund

On January 24, 2009, Großkreutz signed a three-year contract with Borussia Dortmund, which came into effect for the 2009/10 season and has meanwhile been extended to June 30, 2016. He played his first Bundesliga game on the first day of the 2009/10 season. In his first Bundesliga season he established himself as a regular player. On December 5, 2009, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the game against 1. FC Nürnberg .

At Borussia Dortmund, Großkreutz mainly played on one of the offensive wing positions, but was also used as a full-back. Because of its flexibility, it is often referred to as an "all-rounder". He played on the team in a total of seven different positions. This also included a deployment as a goalkeeper on matchday 34 of the 2012/13 season in the game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . After goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller was sent off with a red card after an emergency brake in the 81st minute and Borussia Dortmund had already made three changes, Großkreutz took over the goalkeeping position. He could not save the subsequent penalty .

On December 11, 2013, Großkreutz scored the 2-1 winner at Olympique Marseille for BVB shortly before the end . With that, he shot Dortmund into the last sixteen of the Champions League shortly before the end of the game . In the quarterfinals, despite a 2-0 win, the team was eliminated due to the 0-3 in the first leg against Real Madrid .

Due to various injuries, Großkreutz was out of action for almost the entire first half of 2015. Under the new coach Thomas Tuchel , who took over the team from July 1, 2015, he was no longer considered and was only used in the second team of BVB.

He won the German soccer championship with Borussia in 2011 and the double of the championship and DFB Cup in 2012 .

Galatasaray Istanbul

On August 31, 2015, Großkreutz, Borussia Dortmund and Galatasaray Istanbul agreed to change clubs. Because of a formal error - Galatasaray had registered incomplete documents with FIFA during the transfer period - FIFA did not grant him the right to play for the new club. The clubs agreed to make the change anyway. Großkreutz had a valid contract with Galatasaray, but was not allowed to play in the club's competitive games until the beginning of the next transfer period on January 1, 2016. Galatasaray paid a transfer fee of 1.5 million euros.

In December 2015 it was announced that Großkreutz wanted to return to Germany because he no longer wanted to commute between Turkey and Germany to visit his family. Without having played a game for Galatasaray, he moved back to the Bundesliga in January 2016.

VfB Stuttgart

On January 6, 2016, Großkreutz moved to the German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart for around 2.2 million euros . He made his competitive and league debut for VfB on January 23, 2016, the 18th matchday, in VfB's 3-1 away win against 1. FC Köln . At the end of the season, Großkreutz and his club were relegated to the second Bundesliga .

On March 2, 2017, the contract between Großkreutz and VfB Stuttgart was terminated. The reason for this was a night out a few days earlier with underage teammates in downtown Stuttgart and a subsequent violent confrontation. As a result, Großkreutz kept fit with the BVB regional league team .

SV Darmstadt 98

For the 2017/18 season, Großkreutz signed a two-year contract with SV Darmstadt 98 . He played 27 games in the 2nd Bundesliga, scored three goals and finished the 2017/18 season with the team in tenth place.

KFC Uerdingen

For the 2018/19 season, Großkreutz moved to the third division for KFC Uerdingen and signed a contract with the promoted team until June 30, 2021. In his first season he was on the right defensive flank and only missed four league games due to Yellow card suspensions and minor injuries. However, after the end of the season, the KFC, together with relegated Aalen, had the second most goals conceded in the league. In the following season, Großkreutz lost his regular place to Alexander Bittroff and later to Boubacar Barry and only played 15 competitive games across all competitions. Among other things, he was banned for four league games after an assault against an opponent and suffered from muscular problems and a hip injury.

National teams

Großkreutz at the 2014 World Cup award ceremony

Großkreutz was nominated on August 5, 2010 for the game of the German U21 national team against Iceland on August 11, 2010. In this game he was in the starting line-up and scored the goal to make it 1: 1 (final score 1: 4).

Before that, on May 13, 2010, he had made his debut in the senior national team in the international match against Malta at the Tivoli in Aachen . He was substituted on in the 57th minute and initiated the goal to 2-0 with his first ball contacts. The German team won 3-0 (1-0).

After a total of three games in 2010 and 2011, in which he was once on the starting line-up, Großkreutz initially found no further consideration in the national team. He was only nominated again for the international trip to the USA in June 2013 - as the only Dortmund player after the Champions League final - but had to cancel the invitation due to injury. On March 5, 2014, he was called up again in a 1-0 win against Chile for the first time in three years. Grosskreutz benefited from the fact that defender Philipp Lahm replaced the injured Sami Khedira in the defensive midfield, and was used as a right-back for Lahm.

On June 2, 2014, national coach Joachim Löw added him to the squad of the German senior national team for the World Cup in Brazil , which then won the title. In addition to Matthias Ginter and Erik Durm , however, he was one of three field players without a mission.

After the 2014 World Cup, he was nominated twice. On the one hand for the friendly against Argentina on September 3, 2014, in which he also played his last game so far, and finally for the European Championship qualifier against Scotland on September 7, 2014, in which he was not used. Großkreutz was the only world champion who was not nominated for the subsequent international matches in October 2014. This was justified with the high load in the club.

In January 2016, national coach Löw announced that Großkreutz would not be nominated for the 2016 European Football Championship in France. As a reason, in addition to the lack of match practice, Löw stated that Großkreutz traveled to Germany almost every weekend during his time in Istanbul and thus showed no willingness to integrate.

Career as a coach

In October 2018 Großkreutz announced that he would be available as an assistant coach to the regional league club VfL Kemminghausen from the Dortmund district of the same name as an active player in the KFC Uerdingen "in an advisory capacity". A year later, head coach Reza Hassani and his assistant Großkreutz left the club, which had meanwhile been relegated to the district league, and took over the local competitor Türkspor Dortmund.

Private

Kevin Großkreutz has a younger brother, Lenny. His cousin Marcel Großkreutz also plays soccer.

Großkreutz has a tattoo with the inscription "Little Brother Lenny" on his forearm. It should always remind him of his brother. In addition, out of love for his hometown, he wears the Dortmund skyline on his right calf, including the city coat of arms and the words "Dortmund". Furthermore, he wears tattoos of all the titles he has won in his career on his left shoulder. His nickname is fish .

Since January 2013 Großkreutz has been an honorary ambassador for the Solidarity Fund Foundation NRW. In this role, he replaced Rudi Assauer , who was ill at the time and who died in 2019 .

His daughter Leonie was born on December 14, 2016 in Dortmund and his son on May 15, 2019.

Controversy

The British Guardian listed Großkreutz in its list of the ten most unfair sports personalities of the year at the end of 2014. The reason for this was an incident after the final of the DFB-Pokal 2013/14 in May 2014, when Großkreutz is said to have urinated in a Berlin hotel while drunk in the lobby , and an incident in Cologne in which a fan accused him of having him with to have pelted a kebab . Großkreutz publicly apologized for his behavior after the cup final; his club Borussia Dortmund imposed a fine of 50,000 euros, the highest in the club's history to date.

Großkreutz often makes derogatory remarks about clubs like RB Leipzig on the social network Instagram . In 2016, he ironically claimed that he had signed with the club, which brought him criticism from the then sports director of VfB Stuttgart, Jan Schindelmeiser . At the beginning of January 2017, he also announced via this account that he would present himself naked when his club rose.

Awards

He was the first to win the negative Golden Umberto award for his acting performance in a Mentos commercial.

successes

societies

Red and white awls
Borussia Dortmund
KFC Uerdingen 05

National team

Web links

Commons : Kevin Großkreutz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f My club, my city. It's like a dream. (No longer available online.) Borussia Dortmund, archived from the original on June 29, 2014 ; accessed on July 24, 2014 (player portrait on the Borussia Dortmund homepage).
  2. ^ Jonah Vreda Reiter (child reporter): Interview. WAZ, October 4, 2012, accessed October 4, 2012 .
  3. ↑ biography. (No longer available online.) DFB , archived from the original on July 8, 2014 ; Retrieved July 24, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Borussia Dortmund - TSV 1899 Hoffenheim. Kicker, May 13, 2013, accessed May 13, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Christopher Köster: Kevin Großkreutz talks about Thomas Tuchel and his departure from Borussia Dortmund. Eurosport, September 8, 2015, accessed September 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Großkreutz changes without a license to play. In: kicker.de , September 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ That is why Kevin Großkreutz wants to leave Galatasaray Istanbul again. December 3, 2015, accessed January 9, 2016 .
  8. ^ Confirmation from Galatasaray.
  9. ↑ Kevin Großkreutz 'transfer is fixed ( memento from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) VfB Stuttgart January 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ Termination of contract with Kevin Großkreutz by mutual agreement. VfB Stuttgart , March 3, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
  11. ^ Stuttgart farewell to Kevin Großkreutz: Beaten. Spiegel Online , March 3, 2017, accessed March 3, 2017 .
  12. ↑ message. In: sport1.de. March 22, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Lilien sign Kevin Großkreutz. (No longer available online.) SV Darmstadt 98 , April 11, 2017, archived from the original on April 11, 2017 ; Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Report on the KFC Uerdingen website, accessed on July 5, 2018
  15. ↑ a b c Großkreutz: World Champion on the siding in League 3 , wz.de, accessed on August 6, 2020
  16. ↑ Drastic suspension for Kevin Großkreutz , reviersport.de, accessed on August 6, 2020
  17. ↑ Injured BVB professional: Großkreutz is out for the DFB trip. Spiegel online, May 26, 2013, accessed June 2, 2013 .
  18. ^ German squad for the World Cup. Frankfurter Allgemeine, June 2, 2014, accessed June 2, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Was that about Großkreutz 'DFB career? Die Welt, October 4, 2014, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Löw wants to spare Großkreutz for BVB. Spiegel online, October 6, 2014, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Kevin Großkreutz put in front of the door in a world championship. Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 19, 2016, accessed on January 19, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Ex-Borusse Großkreutz is involved in Dortmund , wa.de, accessed on October 14, 2018
  23. ↑ Surprise: Uerdingens Großkreutz has a new coaching job , liga3-online.de, accessed on September 20, 2019
  24. ↑ a b c Kevin Großkreutz: A special type. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Kevin Großkreutz Tattoos. starflash, accessed July 23, 2014 .
  26. ↑ http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inhalt.dortmund-star-nach-wm-sieg-kevin-grosskreutz-postet-weltmeister-tattoo.88ff1e35-095f-469f-8cab-2c4cd904976b.html
  27. ↑ Stefan Bunse: BVB professional will be Assauer's successor. (No longer available online.) Revier Sport, January 11, 2013, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 11, 2013 .
  28. ↑ https://www.derwesten.de/sport/fussball/bvb/kevin-grosskreutz-ist-papa-herzlichen-glueckwunsch-zur-geburt-der-kleinen-leonie-id208986813.html
  29. ↑ World champion is father! Here Papa Großkreutz proudly shows his Leonie. In: express.de. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  30. ↑ https://www.gala.de/stars/news/kevin-grosskreutz--fussball-star-ist-wieder-papa-geworden-22065862.html
  31. ↑ https://www.gala.de/stars/news/kevin-grosskreutz-und-seine-caro--hurra--das-baby-ist-da--22065168.html
  32. ^ The Anti-Sports Personality of the Year Awards 2014 . The Guardian, December 9, 2015.
  33. ↑ Peter Ahrens: Trouble with BVB players: Großkreutz is the repentant sinner. Spiegel online, May 25, 2014, accessed May 25, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Heiko Ostendorp, Dirk Schlickmann: Sport image . No. 22 , May 28, 2014, pp. 14-16 .
  35. ↑ Counted because of the Instagram gag Kevin Großkreutz at VfB Stuttgart. In: sport1.de
  36. ↑ Kevin Großkreutz wants to show himself naked in the event of an ascent. In: sport1.de
personal data
SURNAME Grosskreutz, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany