Lukas Klostermann

Lukas Klostermann
Lukas Klostermann (2019)
Personnel
Surname	Lukas Manuel Klostermann
birthday	June 3, 1996
place of birth	Herdecke ,  Germany
size	187 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2008	FSV Gevelsberg
2008-2010	SSV Hagen
2010-2014	VfL Bochum
2014-2015	RB Leipzig
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2014	VfL Bochum II	2 (0)
2014	VfL Bochum	9 (0)
2014	RB Leipzig II	2 (1)
2014–	RB Leipzig	123 (11)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2013	Germany U17	6 (0)
2014-2015	Germany U19	11 (0)
2015-2019	Germany U21	22 (2)
2016	Germany Olympic selection	6 (1)
2019–	Germany	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 1, 2020 2 As of November 19, 2019

Lukas Manuel Klostermann (born June 3, 1996 in Herdecke ) is a German soccer player . He is under contract with RB Leipzig and is a German senior and junior national player.

Career

societies

Klostermann played in his youth at VfL Gevelsberg and SSV Hagen .

From 2010, the defensively versatile Westphalian was trained in the youth performance center of VfL Bochum , he led the B-youth at times as team captain. He made his first appearance in professional football as A-Junior at VfL's second division game on matchday 25 of the 2013/14 season at VfR Aalen , which was won 2-0. In total, he came to eight more season appearances for Bochum.

Shortly after the start of the 2014/15 season , Klostermann moved to league rivals RB Leipzig . He completed three games for the U19s in the Bundesliga North / Northeast and failed with her as relay champion in the final round of the championship at TSG Hoffenheim . Klostermann also played two games in the Oberliga Nordost and thirteen in the 2nd Bundesliga. From the 23rd match day he was part of the regular formation of the first team and scored his first goal on the 30th matchday against SV Darmstadt 98 . As a result, the defender continued to be a regular player and was promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in spring 2016 with RB as runner- up. After the ascent, Klostermann only had one season assignment due to a torn cruciate ligament; Leipzig was runner-up behind FC Bayern . The club was able to qualify for the European Cup for the first time in its history; the defender reached the quarter-finals of the Europa League with Leipzig after the group out in the Champions League and made 39 competitive appearances across all competitions.

In 2018/19 Klostermann was regularly considered under head coach Ralf Rangnick , the DFB Cup final was reached, but was lost to the "double winner" FC Bayern. Until the season break ordered due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the defender was not on the field in just three games of the season under Rangnicks successor Julian Nagelsmann , in the also paused "premier class" they made it to the quarter-finals for the time being. At the beginning of May 2020, his contract was extended to June 2024.

National team

Klostermann played six times for the German U17 national team in 2013 . He made his debut on February 10, 2013 against the Netherlands . The first time he was on the field for the German U19 national team was on September 5, 2014. Again you played against the Netherlands . On May 19, 2015 he was nominated for the provisional squad for the U19 European Championship in Greece . He completed the full operating time and was eliminated with the team in the group stage.

On July 15, 2016, the defender was appointed to the squad of the German Olympic football team for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the semi-final against Nigeria he was named player of the game and had to admit defeat with the team in the final Brazil . On November 1, 2016, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf together with the German Olympic team .

Klostermann in the 2016 Olympic team

For the friendly against the national team of Serbia on 20 and the EM 2020 qualifying match against the Netherlands on 24 March 2019 Klostermann by national coach Joachim Loew for the first time for the senior team nominated. He made his A international debut in the encounter with the Serbian national team in a 1-1 draw from the start, before being substituted for Thilo Kehrer in the 90th minute .

Achievements and Awards

RB Leipzig

• Promotion to the Bundesliga : 2016
• German runner-up : 2017

National team

• 2016 Summer Olympics : silver medal

Awards

• Awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in bronze: 2015 (U19)

Private life

Klostermann attended the municipal high school in his home town of Gevelsberg . His younger sister Lisa also plays football professionally.

Web links

Commons : Lukas Klostermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lukas Klostermann in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Lukas Klostermann in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DFB.de: U-21 national player Klostermann
2. ↑ See the official squad list for the 2016 Olympic Games, p. 7 (available as PDF ; 3.81 MB).
3. ↑ Aydin and Butscher decide tough duel kicker.de, accessed on April 11, 2014
4. ↑ kicker.de: RB catches Bochum talent Klostermann (August 22, 2014)
5. ↑ Contract with Lukas Klostermann extended early until 2024! , dierotenbullen.com, accessed May 9, 2020
6. ↑ U19: DFB nominates 30-man squad . transfermarkt.de . May 19, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
7. ↑ The Olympic squad has been determined. In: www.dfb.de. Deutscher Fußball-Bund eV (DFB), July 15, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Finale! DFB-Elf play for Olympic gold in Rio. kicker.de, August 17, 2016, accessed on August 20, 2016 . 
9. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 30, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Löw appoints Stark, Klostermann and Eggestein , kicker.de, accessed on March 15, 2019
11. ↑ Match report Germany - Serbia , transfermarkt.de, accessed on March 20, 2019
12. ↑ Lukas Klostermann becomes a national player. In: Städtisches Gymnasium Gevelsberg. March 20, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Stefan Scherer: For Alexandra Popp and Lukas Klostermann, Gevelsberg is like a vacation. In: Westfalenpost . December 23, 2016, accessed June 28, 2019 . 
14. ↑ ^{a b} Krystian Wozniak: Klostermann: "There is no favorite in the cup final". In: Westfälische Rundschau . May 24, 2019, accessed June 28, 2019 .