Mathias Abel

Mathias Abel
Mathias Abel in 2011
Personnel
birthday	June 22, 1981
place of birth	Kaiserslautern ,  Germany
size	188 cm
position	Central defense
Juniors
Years	station
1985-1990	SV Wiesenthalerhof
1990-1998	1. FC Kaiserslautern
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-2000	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach
2001-2002	Borussia Dortmund II	35 (2)
2002-2006	1. FSV Mainz 05	85 (4)
2006	FC Schalke 04	1 (0)
2007	→  Hamburger SV  (loan)	7 (0)
2007	→  Hamburger SV II  (loan)	2 (0)
2007-2008	FC Schalke 04	0 (0)
2008-2013	1. FC Kaiserslautern	48 (2)
2008-2010	1. FC Kaiserslautern II	20 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2003	Germany U-21	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Mathias Abel (born June 22, 1981 in Kaiserslautern ) is a former German soccer player .

Career

In his youth, the defender played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and moved to Eintracht Bad Kreuznach in 1998 . From January 2001 to 2002 he was under contract with Borussia Dortmund , for whose amateurs he played in the Regionalliga.

From the 2002/03 season he joined the second division club 1. FSV Mainz 05 , who played close to his home country and had been interested in him two years earlier. In Mainz Abel was originally intended for the league team, but then became a regular player for the professionals. He initially played in central defense and then in the second half of the season as a right defender. A cruciate ligament rupture in February 2004 forced Abel to take a six-month break. After Mainz's promotion to the Bundesliga, the defender found his way back into the team.

In the summer of 2005, Abel signed a contract with FC Schalke 04, which ran from July 2006 to 2010 . Due to a protracted back injury, Abel lost his regular place with the Mainz team in the 2005/06 season. At FC Schalke 04 he was only used once in the first 18 games of the 2006/07 season and on January 31, 2007 he was on loan with a purchase option at the end of the season for Hamburger SV . But even at HSV, he only made seven appearances. Since HSV did not take advantage of a purchase option, Abel returned to FC Schalke 04 in the 2007/08 season. However, he suffered a cruciate ligament rupture on September 10, 2007 and was not used for the entire season.

For the 2008/09 season Abel returned for free to 1. FC Kaiserslautern, where he signed a five-year contract. Because of his third cruciate ligament rupture, he made his competitive debut after two years; he had previously played in the second team. Favored by the injury of his rivals in central defense Rodnei and Jan Šimůnek , he was in the starting line-up from the middle of the first half of the 2010/11 season . At the beginning of the second half of the season he was ousted by Rodnei, but was able to push Martin Amedick out of the starting line-up in the further course of the second half . In the game against SC Freiburg on matchday 26 he wore the captain's armband for the first time.

After the 2012/13 season Abel left 1. FC Kaiserslautern after his contract was not extended. After being out of a club for over a year, he ended his career in 2014 and was elected to the FCK Supervisory Board in November 2014.

Web links

• Mathias Abel in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Mathias Abel in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mathias Abel in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ transfermarkt.de: http://www.transfermarkt.de/abel-und-amri-verlassen-den-fck/view/news/122465 , article from May 16, 2013
2. ↑ Abel's presentation of the election to the supervisory board at FCK 2014 fck.de, accessed on January 17, 2015 (pdf)
3. ↑ FCK with annual surplus - Trainer Runjaic extended ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. fck.de, accessed on January 20, 2015