Kolja Push

Kolja Push
Kolja Pusch (2017)
Personnel
birthday	February 12, 1993
place of birth	Wuppertal ,  Germany
size	181 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1998-2003	TSV 05 Ronsdorf
2003-2005	Green and white Wuppertal
2005–2012	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2013	Bayer 04 Leverkusen II	19 0(2)
2012-2013	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	0 0(0)
2013-2014	Chemnitzer FC	22 0(2)
2013-2014	Chemnitz FC II	12 0(0)
2015-2017	SSV Jahn Regensburg	81 (17)
2017	SSV Jahn Regensburg II	1 0(0)
2017-2019	1. FC Heidenheim	24 0(1)
2019	→  FC Admira Wacker Mödling  (loan)	11 0(2)
2019-2020	FC Admira Wacker Mödling	17 0(3)
2020–	KFC Uerdingen 05	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008-2009	Germany U-16	8 0(2)
2009-2010	Germany U-17	11 0(4)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 4, 2020

Kolja Pusch (born February 12, 1993 in Wuppertal ) is a German soccer player .

Career

society

He started at TSV 05 Ronsdorf at the age of five , where his father used to be in goal, and moved to local rivals Grün-Weiß Wuppertal at the age of ten . Scouts from Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen quickly became aware of him and accepted him into the youth department. Pusch went through all junior teams and was particularly convincing in the A-youth . At the age of 18 he played in the second team and became a top performer in the following season.

On November 22, 2012 he made his professional debut in the group stage of the Europa League against Metalist Kharkiv . He was on the starting line-up and played through in the 2-0 defeat.

For the 2013/14 season , Pusch moved to the 3rd division for Chemnitzer FC , where he signed a contract valid until June 30, 2015. During the winter break of the 2014/15 season he joined league rivals SSV Jahn Regensburg . He made his point game debut for Regensburg on January 31, 2015 in a 3-0 win in the home game against Borussia Dortmund II with a substitute for Andreas Geipl in the 63rd minute; two minutes later he scored the goal to make it 2-0.

In summer 2017 he moved to 1. FC Heidenheim in the 2nd Bundesliga . Here he made his debut on August 5, 2017, the 2nd matchday of the 2017/18 season, in the 0-2 defeat against Eintracht Braunschweig . He scored his first goal for Heidenheim in the 4-0 win against SpVgg Unterhaching in the first main round of the 2017/18 DFB Cup on August 12, 2017.

In January 2019 it was awarded to the Austrian Bundesliga club FC Admira Wacker Mödling . After the loan ended, he returned to Heidenheim for the 2019/20 season. He played a second division game for Heidenheim before he was permanently signed by Admira in September 2019. After 17 more appearances for Admira, he left the club after the 2019/20 season. He then returned to Germany for the 2020/21 season and switched to third division club KFC Uerdingen 05 , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2022.

National team

Pusch completed eight international matches for the U-16 national team ; for the U-17 national team , he completed eleven games in which he scored four goals.

Awards

• Winner of the Fritz Walter Medal in bronze in the U-17 category

successes

• Champion of the Regionalliga Bayern 2016 and promotion to the 3rd division (with SSV Jahn Regensburg)
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga 2017 with SSV Jahn Regensburg

Web links

• Kolja Pusch in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kolja Pusch in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lars Lenssen: Youth football: Pusch's path is mapped out ; www.wz-newsline.de from October 7, 2008
2. ↑ Bayer Leverkusen loses in Charkow, Hannover 96 is lame , focus.de from November 22, 2012
3. ↑ CFC commits Kolja Pusch , chemnitzerfc.de from July 18, 2013
4. ↑ kicker.de: Captain Palionis leads by example (January 31, 2015)
5. ↑ An own goal decides the lawn chess , match report on kicker.de, accessed on August 14, 2017.
6. ↑ Beermann heads the FCH into the second round , match report on kicker.de, accessed on August 14, 2017.
7. ↑ Admira strengthens the offensive with Kolja Pusch from 1. FC Heidenheim flyeralarmadmira.at, on January 28, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2019
8. ↑ Admira brings Kolja Pusch from 1. FC Heidenheim permanently to Südstadt flyeralarmadmira.at, on September 2, 2019, accessed on September 2, 2019
9. ↑ Admira will get a facelift despite being relegated kurier.at, on July 6, 2020, accessed on July 6, 2020
10. ↑ KFC signs Kolja Pusch kfc-uerdingen.de, on August 3, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020