Lars Lukas May

Lars Lukas May
Personnel
birthday	March 31, 2000
place of birth	Dresden ,  Germany
size	190 cm
position	Defense / Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2014	Dynamo Dresden
2014-2019	FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2017-2020	FC Bayern Munich II	54 (3)
2018-2020	FC Bayern Munich	2 (0)
2020–	→  SV Darmstadt 98  (loan)	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2015	Germany U15	2 (0)
2015-2016	Germany U16	6 (1)
2016-2017	Germany U17	19 (1)
2018	Germany U18	1 (0)
2019	Germany U19	3 (0)
2019–	Germany U20	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 24, 2020 2 As of November 18, 2019

Lars Lukas "Lasse" Mai (born March 31, 2000 in Dresden ) is a German football player . He has been under contract with SV Darmstadt 98 as a loan player from FC Bayern Munich since July 2020 and is a junior international .

Family and private

Mai's father Lars (* 1970) was a member of the Dynamo Dresden supervisory board from November 2013 to September 2017 . His brother Sebastian (* 1993) is also a soccer player. In the third division season 2019/20 the brothers met their respective clubs for the first time, Lars Lukas won both games with FC Bayern Munich II . His nickname and first name is Lasse .

Career

societies

Beginnings

Mai moved from Dynamo Dresden to the youth department of FC Bayern Munich in 2014 and was a regular player in the U16 in the Bayern League in the 2014/15 season .

In the following season Mai played 24 point games for the U17s in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga and scored one goal. During this season he was also used once in the U19 youth team in the A-Juniors Bundesliga . In the 2016/17 season he played 22 games in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga and scored two goals; he was used again in a point game of the U19. At the end of the season, Mai won the German B-Junior Championship as team captain with the U17s . For his achievements he received the bronze Fritz Walter Medal in the U17 age group.

In the 2017/18 season, Mai finally moved up to the U19. On July 30, 2017, he played a game for the second team in the fourth-class regional league Bayern in a 2-2 away game against FC Unterföhring , but otherwise continued to play for the A-Jugend and became team captain over the course of the season .

First professional contract with FC Bayern

On April 21, 2018, Mai made his debut in a 3-0 away win at Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga , when coach Jupp Heynckes spared numerous regular players in the game that was rather insignificant for Bayern after the championship they had already won; Mai played as a central defender for over 90 minutes . He had previously participated in the winter training camp in Qatar with the professional team in January. Six days after this debut, he signed his first professional contract, valid until June 30, 2021. The following day, he also played for 90 minutes in the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt and sat on the bench in the Champions League semi-final second leg away from Real Madrid the following two last Bundesliga games of the season. Through his two appearances, Mai became German champion for the first time .

For the 2018/19 season , Mai moved up to the squad of the second team, but was not injured at the start of the match. After his recovery, he immediately became a regular player in central defense for the Bayern Amateurs, but also played several games in the A-Juniors Bundesliga and UEFA Youth League for the A-Juniors (U19) . Overall, May came in the second representation on 27 regional league appearances, in which he scored two goals. He also played in both games of the promotion round, in which one rose to the 3rd division . In the professional team, Mai sat on the bench in seven Bundesliga games without being substituted on by head coach Niko Kovač . He became German champion for the second time with the professionals and won the DFB Cup for the first time , as he sat on the bench in the quarter-finals without a stake.

Also in the 2019/20 season, Mai was in the extended squad of the first team and also played for the second division in the third division. Under Kovač and his successor Hansi Flick , he was in 15 Bundesliga games in the matchday squad and was German champion for the third time without use. In addition, Mai was in the squad for three DFB Cup games and won this competition without a stake. In the second team, the central defender under Sebastian Hoeneß played 26 third division games (25 times from the start) in which he scored a goal and was third division champion.

SV Darmstadt 98

In July 2020, Mai extended his contract with FC Bayern until June 30, 2023 and switched to the 2nd Bundesliga for SV Darmstadt 98 on loan for the 2020/21 season .

National team

For the German U15 national team , the youngest national team of the DFB , played two games against the Netherlands in May 2015. From October 2015 he played for the U16 national team and scored his first goal with a penalty in the first game, a 4-2 in Austria. This was followed by five more appearances for the U16s until February 2016, some as a substitute. From September 2016 he played for the U17s , took part as a regular player at the European Championship in Croatia in May 2017 , where he was eliminated with the team in the semifinals against Spain on penalties. In the first group game, a 5-0 win against Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mai scored the first tournament goal for his team in the second minute of the game and missed his penalty in the penalty shoot-out against Spain.

Participation in the semi-finals at that European Championship was equivalent to qualifying for the U17 World Championship in India in October 2017. Mai was a regular there again and was eliminated from the tournament in the quarter-finals against Brazil. This defeat was also his last game for the U17 national team and he moved up to the U18 in March 2018 , for which he only played one game.

In autumn 2018 he took part with the U19 national team in a tournament in Armenia, but was not used there. In March 2019, he played all three qualifying games for the U19 European Championship , but failed with the team to Norway .

successes

• German champion 2018 , 2019 , 2020
• DFB Cup winners : 2019 , 2020
• Master of 3. Liga : 2020
• Promotion to the 3rd division: 2019
• Champion of the Regionalliga Bayern : 2019
• German B-Junior Champion : 2017

Awards

• Fritz Walter Medal : Bronze 2017 (U17)

Web links

• Lars Lukas Mai in the database of the German Football Association
• Lars Lukas Mai in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Lars Lukas Mai in the database of weltfussball.de
• Lars Lukas in May in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Lars Lukas Mai in the FuPa.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lars Mai resigns from his position as a member of the Supervisory Board , dynamo-dresden.de, September 27, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2018
2. ↑ Player portrait: Lukas Mai, 17 years old , lattenkreuz.de, May 12, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2018
3. ↑ Debutant Lars Lukas Mai impresses on the big stage at Bayern Munich , bundesliga.com, April 22, 2018, accessed on April 22, 2018
4. ↑ Match report , fcbayern.com, June 18, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2018
5. ^ Fritz Walter Gold Medals for Özcan, Arp and Feldkamp , dfb.de, July 28, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2018
6. ↑ Match report on the homepage of FC Bayern Munich
7. ↑ Comments on the debut on weltfussball.de
8. ↑ Defense Jewel May: That was my personal highlight , fupa.net, March 20, 2018, accessed on April 21, 2018
9. ↑ Young player Lars Lukas Mai signs professional contract In: fcbayern.com, April 27, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2018
10. ↑ Amateurs are "happy that things are starting now" , fcbayern.com, July 11, 2018, accessed on July 13, 2018
11. ^ SV 98 borrows Lars Lukas Mai . In: sv98.de (SV Darmstadt 98). July 21, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
12. ↑ FC Bayern extended with Lars Lukas Mai, loan to Darmstadt , fcbayern.com, July 21, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020.
13. ↑ Game data in the DFB data center, accessed on April 21, 2018