Markus Mendler

Markus Mendler
Beginning of the 2013/14 season
Personnel
Surname	Markus Mendler
birthday	January 7, 1993
place of birth	Memmingen ,  Germany
size	173 cm
position	attacking midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2003	TSV Legau
2003-2008	FC Memmingen
2008–2012	1. FC Nuremberg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2010-2015	1. FC Nuremberg	16 0(0)
2011-2015	1. FC Nuremberg II	39 0(7)
2014	→  SV Sandhausen  (loan)	2 0(0)
2015-2016	Stuttgart Kickers	24 0(2)
2016	Stuttgart Kickers II	1 0(0)
2016–	1. FC Saarbrücken	95 (27)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2010-2011	Germany U-18	7 0(5)
2011	Germany U-19	9 0(3)
2013	Germany U-20	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of March 26, 2013

Markus Mendler (born January 7, 1993 in Memmingen ) is a German soccer player .

Life

Mendler grew up in Legau, Upper Swabia, south of Memmingen. At TSV Legau, he began playing football before moving to FC Memmingen . There he was discovered for the youth development team of the Bavarian Football Association, with whom he became German champions in the U-15.

In 2008 Mendler moved to 1. FC Nürnberg , where he went through the other youth teams. As an A-youth he was invited to train the professional team on a trial basis. During an international break in the Bundesliga, he played in a professional friendly game as a substitute for Mike Frantz in September 2010 and impressed with a good performance and a free kick goal. On October 16, Frantz was injured before the game at FC St. Pauli and Mendler went to Hamburg as a substitute. When the club was behind towards the end of the game, he made his first Bundesliga appearance in attack in the last minutes of the game . He then stayed in the extended squad in the following games and was substituted on again in the final quarter of an hour in the cup game at SV Elversberg . At the beginning of November, his contract was prematurely extended by three years to 2014.

In the game against Borussia Mönchengladbach on the first day of the second half of the 2010/11 season, he scored for the first time in the Bundesliga, but the goal was not recognized. In the following home game against Hamburger SV , he was in the starting lineup of the Nuremberg for the first time. After a total of six first division appearances, he returned to the U-19 team for the rest of the season.

The following season began with a convincing appearance as a right winger in the starting line-up against Hertha BSC in the opening game. Mendler played again and again until the seventh matchday. However, he could not hold the performance and was taken off the squad again. In the second half of the season, back problems forced him to take a longer break. He then began the 2012/13 season in the regional league team and scored his first two goals in the senior division in the opening game. However, he tore his meniscus in the first game and had to undergo an operation. As a result, he missed the entire first half of the season and only returned to the professional team in the second half of the season. In the crucial phase of the season he was regularly in the squad, but he was only used in the U-23. Only played for the first team again on the last three Bundesliga match days.

On January 16, 2014 Mendler was up to the end of the season in the 2. Bundesliga at the SV Sandhausen awarded. After only two missions, however, he suffered an injury to his lateral meniscus and was out for the rest of the second half of the season. Mendler returned to Nuremberg in the summer of 2014, but only played for the second team of the FCN in the 2014/15 season.

National team

Mendler was nominated for a German junior national team for the first time in the 2010/11 season. On November 16, 2010, he made his debut in the U-18s and ended up being the most successful goalscorer of his year with five goals in seven games. At the end of the season he was awarded the Fritz Walter bronze medal by the DFB as the third best player in the U-18 juniors .

After that, he was also part of the U-19 national team and was used there regularly. In 2012, however, he was completely out of action due to an injury and it took until March 2013 for Mendler to return to the junior national team for two games between the German U-20s against Switzerland.

titles and achievements

Selection of the Bavarian Football Association

• German U-15 champions: 2007 (as a player for FC Memmingen)

Personal awards

• Fritz Walter Medal in bronze: 2011 (U-18)

Web links

• Markus Mendler in the weltfussball.de database
• Markus Mendler in the kicker.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1. FC Nürnberg: Number 7 on cloud 7 , Abendzeitung Nürnberg, September 5, 2010
2. ^ Club youngster Mendler came and met , Nürnberger Zeitung, September 3, 2010
3. ↑ Markus Mendler until 2014 , homepage 1. FC Nürnberg, November 2, 2010
4. ↑ Mendler at SV Sandhausen / Lais, possibly to Chemnitz , svs1916.de, January 16, 2014
5. ↑ U 18 juniors - team overview , DFB, May 22, 2011
6. ^ Winner of the Fritz Walter Medal 2010/11 , DFB, July 22, 2011