Mario Eggimann

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Mario Eggimann
Eggimann.jpg
Mario Eggimann, 2011
Personnel
birthday January 24, 1981
place of birth Brugg ,  Switzerland
Size 189 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
1986-1989 FC Küttigen
1989-1998 FC Aarau
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2002 FC Aarau 75 0(2)
2002-2008 Karlsruher SC 176 (18)
2008-2013 Hannover 96 93 0(2)
2013-2015 1. FC Union Berlin 17 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Switzerland U-16 7 0(0)
Switzerland U-17 24 0(3)
Switzerland U-18 12 0(1)
Switzerland U-19 1 0(0)
2000-2004 Switzerland U-21 23 0(1)
2007-2010 Switzerland 10 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Eggimann (born January 24, 1981 in Brugg ) is a former Swiss football player who was most recently under contract with 1. FC Union Berlin .

Career

In the club

Eggimann started playing football at the age of five in the youth team of FC Küttigen. In 1989 he moved to the youth department of FC Aarau . When his youth coach became the first team coach, he was already pulled up by him at the age of 17.

In the summer of 2002, the German second division club Karlsruher SC signed the defender. During his time at KSC, the central defender continued to develop and from the 2006/07 season he was the captain of the team that won the second division that year and was promoted to the Bundesliga. There he scored his first Bundesliga goal for Karlsruhe in a 2-1 win against VfL Wolfsburg on September 16, 2007, the 5th match day. On March 10, 2008 Eggimann made use of an exit clause in his contract that enabled him to leave KSC for 1.4 million euros. He signed a contract with Hannover 96 , which began with the 2008/09 season and ended on June 30, 2013. Under the coaches Dieter Hecking and Andreas Bergmann, Eggimann was only a substitute for the 96ers. After the engagement of Mirko Slomka as coach, Mario Eggimann became a regular player, then the club signed Emanuel Pogatetz and Eggimann became a substitute again. From the second half of 2011/12 he was a regular again. On the 19th match day of the 2012/13 season, in the Lower Saxony derby against VfL Wolfsburg, he suffered a broken ankle.

After his contract expired on June 30, 2013, Eggimann left the club and switched to the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FC Union Berlin for the 2013/14 season , where he signed a contract until June 30, 2015 with an option for a further year .

In October 2015, he announced that he had ended his active career due to health problems.

National team

Eggimann was the captain of the Swiss U-21 national team. On September 7, 2007 he played for the senior national team for the first time . He was in the provisional squad for the EM 2008 , but was not nominated for the tournament.

Eggimann took part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but only made short appearances. He celebrated a particular success in the game against the reigning European champions Spain , in which the Confederates managed a 1-0 victory against the eventual world champions.

successes

  • Promotion to the 1st Bundesliga with Karlsruher SC (2007)

Private

Eggimann has a daughter (* 2009) and a son (* 2012) with his wife, who is from Karlsruhe. His father Hans Eggimann was the coach of FC Küttigen and his older brother Patrick was also active as a footballer. Eggimann now lives with his family in Sindelfingen - Darmsheim and trains the TV Darmsheim there as an assistant trainer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebration for «Ritzer»: Bundesliga star Mario Eggimann inaugurates the new playing field , aargauerzeitung.ch
  2. ↑ Competition from their own country - Eggimann has to fear for his place , www.aargauerzeitung.ch of January 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Eggimann and Eichner per head , match report on kicker.de, accessed on April 14, 2019.
  4. ↑ Hannover 96: Broken ankle in Mario Eggimann , goal.com from January 26, 2013
  5. ↑ 1. FC Union Berlin eV signs Mario Eggimann , fc-union-berlin.de from May 20, 2013
  6. ↑ "It no longer works": Eggimann ends career , kicker.de of October 4, 2015
  7. ↑ The late bloomers , soccernet.espn.go.com of 2 April of 2008.
  8. ^ TVD: Ex-professional as assistant trainer , bbheute.de from March 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Eggimann, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss football player
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Brugg , Switzerland