Manfred Starke

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Manfred Starke
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Manfred Starke (2019)
Personnel
birthday February 21, 1991
place of birth Windhoek ,  Namibia
size 179 cm
position Midfielder , full-back
Juniors
Years station
1998-2004 SK Windhoek
2004-2006 Hansa Rostock
2006-2007 FSV Bentwisch
2007-2010 Hansa Rostock
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2015 Hansa Rostock II 64 (17)
2011-2015 Hansa Rostock 49 0(4)
2015-2019 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 120 (32)
2019– 1. FC Kaiserslautern 29 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009 Namibia U-19
2010 Namibia U-23
2012– Namibia 6 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of June 28, 2019

Manfred Starke (born February 21, 1991 in Windhoek ) is a Namibian football player who is used as a left foot mostly in the left midfield or in the external defense , but also in the central midfield . Starke, who has been a national player in his country of birth since October 13, 2012, began his career with Hansa Rostock in the 2nd and 3rd division . He was also temporarily active in fistball for the Namibian youth national teams . German citizenship is also strong .

Career

Childhood and youth in Namibia

Manfred Starke was born in 1991 as the son of his German Namibian father Richard, who had actively played soccer and later worked as the soccer coach of SK Windhoek , and his mother Carla, who came from the Netherlands , in Windhoek . At the age of seven he started playing football at the German Higher Private School in Windhoek . Four years later he began to play fistball as well.

When Starkes father met Heinz Werner through a coaching course in 2003 , Manfred became aware of Manfred and referred him to 1. FC Union Berlin for a three-week trial training session . Since Union did not have a boarding school at that time , a permanent change to this club was out of the question, whereupon Manfred Starke completed a three-month trial training at Hansa Rostock . The following year, at the age of 13, he moved to Rostock, where he was housed in the club's own boarding school.

Adolescent years in Germany

From 2004 to 2006 Starke played for Hansa's C-youth . In 2006 his sister Sandra, who was two years younger than him, moved to Germany and was aiming for a career as a soccer player at 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam ; she became a German national youth player. Manfred Starke had to vacate the boarding school in Rostock in the summer of 2006 due to a lack of athletic prospects, whereupon he lived with a host family in Rostock and continued his football career at the local club FSV Bentwisch . In the summer of 2007 he returned to FC Hansa after he was able to convince those responsible for the club with good performance in Bentwisch's B-youth team.

Starke played in the U-17 Bundesliga with Rostock B-Jugend from 2007 onwards and, under coach Roland Kroos, contributed two goals in 25 missions to fifth place in the 2007/08 final table . In the summer of 2008 Starke moved up to the club's A-youth team and made 25 appearances for them in the 2008/09 season of the U-19 Bundesliga . The team trained by Michael Hartmann finished second in their Bundesliga relay with one point behind Werder Bremen and missed the final round of the German A-Juniors soccer championship .

In the U-19 Bundesliga season 2009/10 , Starke contributed to first place in the North / Northeast season with 23 appearances after he had passed his technical diploma in metal technology at the “Vocational School of the Hanseatic City of Rostock”. In the championship finals he was used in the semi-finals against Mainz and in the final against Leverkusen . With a 1-0 victory, Hansa won the first national youth title in all-German football.

Although Starke had barely played fistball since moving to Germany, he was nominated for the Namibian U-18 national fistball team in winter 2008/09 and took part in the U-18 World Cup in Swakopmund in January 2009 . The Namibian team came last among the six participating nations. In the same year, Starke played for the first time for the youth team of the Namibian Football Association : At a four-nation tournament that took place in Angola at the end of August 2009 , he finished second with the U-19 team. He mainly took part in national team games when he was on vacation in Namibia, including in December 2010 at a game of the U-23 team as part of the Olympic qualification . During his holidays he also played for SK Windhoek in tournaments such as the "Christmas Cup".

Beginnings at Hansa Rostock

Although Hansa's professional team was relegated to the third division in the summer of 2010 and with the integration of Tom Trybull , Kevin Müller and Lucas Albrecht increasingly relied on players from the A-youth championship, Starke could not recommend himself to be taken over in Rostock's professional squad. He was assigned to the reserve team that played in the 2010/11 season under coach Axel Rietentiet in the fifth-class Oberliga Nordost , in which they withdrew for financial reasons, although they had achieved relegation in the regional league . Starke established himself as a regular player and contributed in 27 missions to the fact that the team took second place in the final table, level on points with first-placed Torgelow . Hansa's reserve team renounced the promotion made possible by Torgelow's waiver and also played in the league in the 2011/12 season .

Rostock's professional team was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in summer 2011 and Starke's chances of playing decreased. By autumn he played in 12 games in the reserve team, where he performed well for the professional team under Peter Vollmann . In November 2011, Vollmann called Starke into the professional squad, where he sat on the bench for the first time against Union Berlin on November 25 . To get match practice, Starke belonged in the following period to the regular formation of the reserve in the league. After coach Vollmann was replaced by Wolfgang Wolf in December 2011 , the situation did not change at first. On April 10, 2012 Starke made his debut in the 2nd Bundesliga by substitution in the away game against Energie Cottbus . He was used on the following four match days, twice on the starting grid. With the team he got a point in these last four games of the season, which sealed the club's relegation to the third division. He extended his expiring contract with Hansa by one year until 2013.

In October 2012 Starke was appointed to the Namibian national soccer team for the first time by national coach Bernhard Kaanjuka , who held a ten-day training camp at the Kaiserau sports school in Germany in preparation for the qualifying games for the 2014 World Cup . Due to an injury he had to cancel his participation and came on October 13, 2012 in the 0-0 draw of Namibia in the friendly against Rwanda for his first international appearance.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 third division season , Starke played a reserve role and only made five short appearances until the spring of 2013 despite the change from Wolf to Marc Fascher . Hansa was again in danger of relegation. From April 2013 Starke was in the last seven games of the season on the starting line-up and scored three goals, which he had a share in relegation. He extended his contract by two years until 2015. At the end of the 2014/15 season , the contract was not extended. This ended his 9-year career at the club.

Carl Zeiss Jena

On May 27, 2015, Starkes switched to the regional division FC Carl Zeiss Jena . He followed his Rostock teammate Robin Krauße . In the 2016/17 season, Starke qualified with Jena for the promotion relegation to the 3rd division, in which they prevailed against FC Viktoria Köln . By 2019 he had played 64 games for Jena in the 3rd division, in which he scored 11 goals and prepared 15.

1. FC Kaiserslautern

In the summer of 2019, Starke signed a two-year contract with third division club 1. FC Kaiserslautern . In the first half of the 2019/20 season , he provided five assists.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Manfred Starke: “I have what it takes to be a Brave Warrior!” Interview in the Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) , January 6, 2012, accessed on January 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Professional squad. Carl-Zeiss Jena. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b "A boy from Africa with hand and foot" . ( Memento of October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Kogge - official club magazine of FC Hansa Rostock eV, issue 10 of the 2008/09 season from February 16, 2009, pp. 30–31 (pdf; 7.6 MB) , accessed May 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b On Christmas vacation to the fistball world championship . FC-Hansa.de, December 19, 2008, accessed on January 7, 2012.
  5. ↑ Namibia's "Young Warriors" miss Olympic qualification . Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) , December 20, 2010, accessed April 15, 2012.
  6. ↑ Strong, media, lock: The Hansa splitter . FC-Hansa.de, November 22, 2011, accessed December 7, 2012.
  7. ↑ Despite four goals: Rostock is relegated . ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Sport1.de , April 29, 2012, accessed on May 9, 2012.
  8. ↑ a b Manfred Starke: Contract extension until 2013 . FC-Hansa.de, May 11, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2012.
  9. ^ Brave Warriors to tour Germany . ( Memento of May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) NFA.org.na , May 7, 2012, accessed on May 9, 2012 (English).
    Strong appointed for Namibia . Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) , May 8, 2012, accessed May 9, 2012.
  10. ^ Namibia, Rwanda in entertaining draw . ( Memento of October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) namibiasport.com.na, October 14, 2012, accessed on October 14, 2012 (English).
  11. ↑ Contract extension: Manfred Starke stays with FC Hansa Rostock . FC-Hansa.de, June 16, 2013, accessed on June 17, 2013.
  12. ↑ 3rd league: Hansa Rostock gives away at least eleven players . Sport1.de , May 24, 2015.
  13. ↑ Detailed performance data transfermarkt.de, accessed on June 19, 2019.
  14. ↑ Offensive player Manfred Starke comes from Jena to Betze fck.de, June 19, 2019, accessed on June 19, 2019.
  15. ↑ Oliver Sperk and Horst Konzok: The half-year reports of the FCK professionals: Dominik Schad is the leader. In: www.rheinpfalz.de. December 16, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Strong, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Windhoek , Namibia