Kevin Müller

Kevin Müller
Kevin Müller (2017)
Personnel
birthday	March 15, 1991
place of birth	Rostock ,  Germany
size	190 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
1997-1998	TuSpo Bad Münder
1998-2010	Hansa Rostock
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010–2012	Hansa Rostock II	5 (0)
2010-2013	Hansa Rostock	64 (0)
2013-2015	VfB Stuttgart II	15 (0)
2014-2015	→  Energie Cottbus  (loan)	37 (0)
2015–	1. FC Heidenheim	135 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2010–2012	Germany U-20	7 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Kevin Müller (born March 15, 1991 in Rostock ) is a German football player . The goalkeeper , who played seven times for the youth national teams of the DFB , began his career at Hansa Rostock in the 3rd division and the 2nd Bundesliga .

Career

Youth in Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg

Although born in Rostock, the goalkeeper began his footballing career in 1997 in the youth department of TuSpo Bad Münder in Lower Saxony , after his parents had moved to the vicinity of Hanover for professional reasons soon after his birth .

In 1998 the family returned to Rostock and Kevin Müller moved to Hansa Rostock , for whom his uncle Martin Pieckenhagen, who was married on his mother's side, had already played as a goalkeeper in the Bundesliga . By 2010, Müller then went through all of the youth teams at Hansa, where he advanced to the top of the Rostock A-Youth coached by Michael Hartmann in the 2008/09 and 2009/10 seasons of the U-19 Bundesliga . So he reached the runner-up championship in 2008/09 and in the following season the championship of their season and the associated final of the German Youth Championship , which made Müller recommended for the temporary participation in the training of the Rostock second division team under Andreas Zachhuber . In the championship finals, the team led by Müller as captain finally won Hansa's first national youth title since reunification in the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with a 1-0 win. Shortly before, Müller had completed his Abitur at the Christophorus School in Rostock and then planned to take up distance learning in history and public law .

Beginnings at Hansa Rostock

Together with Lucas Albrecht , the most successful goalscorer of the championship team, Müller then moved up to the club's professional team, which had been relegated from the 2nd Bundesliga to the 3rd division shortly before . In this, Müller continued to train under Michael Hartmann, who had assumed the post of assistant trainer under the new trainer Peter Vollmann in the summer of 2010 . For goalkeeper Rostock in the season 2010/11 certain of these Jörg Hahnel , while Müller initially alternately filled Substitute goalkeeper Andreas Kerner, the third Hansa player on the goalie position that role. On the other hand, Müller collected match practice in missions for the reserve team, which played under Axel Rietentiet in the fifth-class Oberliga Nordost in 2010/11 . After Hahnel's injury, however, Müller was given preference over Kerner, who was three years older, so that he made his third division debut on October 16, 2010 against 1. FC Heidenheim . Müller remained the goalkeeper of the Hanseatic League until the winter break, but Jörg Hahnel took this post again at the beginning of the second half of the season.

On September 6, 2010, Müller made his debut in the U-20 national team coached by Frank Wormuth when he came on as a substitute in the 3-2 win over Switzerland in the second half. For the first time, however, he was not on the grid until March 24, 2011 in a 1-1 draw against Poland , which meant Müller's fourth appearance in the national team's dress.

For Rostock, Müller initially only played in the Landespokal-Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in spring 2011 , in which he played the eighth, quarter and semi-finals. In the league, however, he was only used again in April 2011 when he was initially called up again for the reserve team in the league. After the licensed team could not be taken back to the 2nd Bundesliga mathematically, Müller moved into the goal of the third division team again at the end of April and so came to two more appearances in the promotion team. The last game of the season, however, again played Müller's competitor Hahnel, who also acted as goalkeeper in the final of the state cup, which was victorious for Hansa.

For the 2011/12 season , Müller was preferred to Jörg Hahnel as Hansa's new goalkeeper. Even when coach Vollmann was replaced by Wolfgang Wolf in December 2011 due to the threat of relegation , Müller initially retained his position in the Hansa-Tor, so that he played in all Rostock games up to and including the 26th matchday. After a temporary injury to Müller, Wolf relied on the more experienced Hahnel in the relegation battle from the end of March 2012, so that Müller in the meantime also appeared again for the reserve team in the major league. In the end, Rostock was already relegated from the penultimate match day, after which Müller again guarded the Hansa goal in the last game of the season. Müller then extended his contract with Hansa, which expired at the end of the season, for a year until 2013.

At the beginning of the third division season 2012/13 , Müller again prevailed against his competitors in the goalkeeping position, but was represented in the course of the first half of the season by both the older Hahnel and the younger Johannes Brinkies due to injury . In the spring of 2013, Marc Fascher , now acting as coach, preferred the latter to Müller for some games, but ultimately he returned to the Hansa-Tor and thus made a total of 28 season appearances. Instead of the actually targeted promotion, the team had played against the threatened relegation to fourth division and only achieved relegation on the penultimate match day. Müller subsequently did not extend his expiring contract with Hansa.

Müller at VfB Stuttgart and on loan in Cottbus

In June 2013, Müller signed a two-year contract with VfB Stuttgart , in which he was initially provided for the reserve team, who played in the 3rd division in 2013/14 just like Hansa.

On August 1, 2014, Müller was loaned out to Energie Cottbus by VfB until the end of the 2014/15 season and extended his contract with Stuttgart until 2016.

Müller at 1. FC Heidenheim

For the 2015/16 season , Müller moved to 1. FC Heidenheim .

In the away game on December 2, 2016 at Hannover 96 , Müller suffered a ten-centimeter tear in his neck after a collision with opponent Noah Sarenren Bazee and had to be replaced in the 38th minute of the game bleeding heavily.

family

On May 25, 2012, Müller married the mother of their son, who was born on April 24, 2011.

Web links

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

• Kevin Müller in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kevin Müller in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DFB.de: U-20 national player Müller
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Abitur done, now the title should be here
3. ↑ FC-Hansa.de, February 8, 2010: Kevin Müller trains with the professionals , accessed on October 16, 2010
4. ↑ FC-Hansa.de, October 15, 2010: Jörg Hahnel is canceled - chance for Kevin Müller , accessed on October 16, 2010
5. ↑ FC-Hansa.de, May 17, 2012: Contract extension: Kevin Müller stays with FC Hansa Rostock , accessed on May 18, 2012
6. ↑ fc-hansa.de: Unsinkable since 1965: White and blue goalkeepers from Hansa's history. March 27, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 . 
7. ↑ VfB.de, June 10, 2013: Kevin Müller is coming ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2013
8. ↑ Energie Cottbus, August 1, 2014: Kevin Müller loaned from VfB ( Memento from August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ VfB Stuttgart, August 1, 2014: Kevin Müller is loaned out ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ 1. FC Heidenheim, May 25, 2015: FCH newcomer Kevin Müller receives a contract until 2018! ( Memento from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Sport1.de: Kevin Müller from 1. FC Heidenheim suffers lacerations in his neck / shock at Heidenheim's Müller , December 2, 2016, accessed on December 4, 2016
12. ↑ FC-Hansa.de, May 25, 2012: Wedding bells: Kevin Müller says 'Yes' to his Steffi , accessed on May 30, 2012