Marco Höger

Marco Höger
Höger (2015)
Personnel
birthday	September 16, 1989
place of birth	Cologne ,  Germany
size	182 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1994-2001	TuS Höhenhaus
2001-2005	Bayer 04 Leverkusen
2005-2008	Alemannia Aachen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2011	Alemannia Aachen II	39 (7)
2009-2011	Alemannia Aachen	43 (7)
2011-2016	FC Schalke 04	88 (7)
2016–	1. FC Cologne	94 (1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20

Marco Höger (born September 16, 1989 in Cologne ) is a German soccer player who is under contract with 1. FC Cologne . His preferred position is the defensive midfield, but he can also be used as a right defender.

Childhood and youth

Höger grew up in Bergisch Gladbach . He has been a fan of 1. FC Köln since childhood . His role model was Toni Polster .

Career

Beginnings

Marco Höger began his career in 1994 at TuS Höhenhaus and joined Bayer 04 Leverkusen when he was twelve . After five years in the youth of Bayer Leverkusen, he moved to Alemannia Aachen .

Alemannia Aachen

There he joined the Aachen reserve team in the NRW League in 2008 and became team captain. On March 6, 2010, Höger made his first appearance in the 2nd Bundesliga . He established himself in the first team of Alemannia and played regularly as a right midfielder, but also as a right full-back . In the game against 1. FC Union Berlin in the 2010/11 season , he scored his first goal in professional football. Two game days later, he scored the 1-1 final score with a penalty in the away game against Greuther Fürth . At the end of the season there were seven goals and nine assists after 33 games.

FC Schalke 04

Höger (2011)

For the 2011/12 season, Höger moved to FC Schalke 04 . He played his first game for Schalke in the 3-0 away defeat at VfB Stuttgart on the first day of the 2011/12 season . He scored his first Bundesliga goal on January 28, 2012 to make it 4-1 at 1. FC Köln . Due to his variability in defense and midfield, he came to regular hours and fought for a regular place in the team. In his first season he came in the league on 27 missions; due to two tears in the syndesmosis tape in the 2012/13 season, however, to 22 missions. In the Bundesliga game against Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2013/14 season , he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture that put him out of action for several months. He finally made his comeback against SC Freiburg on the penultimate matchday after almost seven months . In total, he was only used eight times in the league and scored two goals. He started the 2014/15 season without injuries, although he suffered injuries in the pre-season. In the second half of the season opener in the home game against Hannover 96 , he scored his first goal of the season with the decisive 1-0.

On May 11, 2015, Höger was temporarily suspended from the club's training and game operations, while Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sidney Sam were permanently affected. According to sports director Horst Heldt, the reason for this was "doubts about his loyalty to the club". Since May 18, 2015 he has been part of the Schalke team again. For the 2015/16 season , Höger was fully integrated into the squad again and was considered a squad player under the new coach André Breitenreiter . In the 1-0 win against HSV on the 7th matchday of the Bundesliga, he tore a partial cruciate ligament and was out for the first half of the season. His contract with FC Schalke 04 ran until June 2017.

1. FC Cologne

For the 2016/17 season he moved to 1. FC Köln . In 2020 he had a guest appearance in the crime series SOKO Cologne : Episode: Tango.

Style of play

Höger is characterized by high variability. So he can play the positions in the defensive and central midfield, but also as a right midfielder or right back. His ball security and accuracy of fit are valued. He closes open spaces with clever runs. In addition, he is considered a very fair player, as he was not even expelled from the field during his entire professional career ( as of October 2015 ). Nevertheless, he received eleven yellow cards in the 2014/15 Bundesliga season . These result mainly from tactical fouls .

successes

• 2011 DFL Supercup winner
• German second division champions: 2018/19

Web links

• Marco Höger in the database of weltfussball.de
• Marco Höger in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Marco Höger in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Player profile at schalke04.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Lempe: Interview with Schalke star from Cologne Marco Höger: Toni Polster was a real role model! In: EXPRESS. DuMont Rheinland Media24 GmbH / DuMont Mediengruppe, May 9, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Marco Höger - 2nd division - kicker online (accessed on May 3, 2011)
3. ↑ Portrait at Alemannia Aachen (accessed on May 3, 2011)
4. ^ Alemannia Aachen: Match data Energie Cottbus vs Alemannia Aachen ( Memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), March 6, 2010.
5. ↑ Marco Höger changes to FC Schalke 04 ( memento from June 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), club homepage of FC Schalke 04 from June 8, 2011.
6. ↑ kicker.de
7. ↑ kicker.de
8. ↑ FC Schalke 04 .de: Marco Höger suffers a partial cruciate ligament tear , accessed on September 27, 2015.
9. ↑ FC Schalke 04 .de: Marco Höger extends contract until 2017 , accessed on October 21, 2015.
10. ↑ Schalker is coming in the summer fc-koeln.de, accessed on February 22, 2016.
11. ↑ SOKO Cologne , report on express.de from May 14, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020
12. ↑ Höger's season end , Halbfeldflanke.de, accessed on October 26, 2013.