Matthias Ginter

Matthias Ginter
Ginter with the national team (2019)
Personnel
Surname	Matthias Lukas Ginter
birthday	January 19, 1994
place of birth	Freiburg im Breisgau ,  Germany
size	191 cm
position	Defense , midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1998-2005	SC March
2005–2012	Sc freiburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2014	Sc freiburg	70 (2)
2014-2017	Borussia Dortmund	67 (3)
2015	Borussia Dortmund II	2 (0)
2017–	Borussia M'gladbach	92 (8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2011–2012	Germany U18	6 (0)
2012-2013	Germany U19	5 (1)
2013-2017	Germany U21	18 (1)
2016	Germany Olympic selection	5 (2)
2014–	Germany	29 (1)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of November 16, 2019

Matthias Lukas Ginter (born January 19, 1994 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German soccer player . As a professional he played for SC Freiburg and Borussia Dortmund and has been under contract with Borussia Mönchengladbach since 2017 . In 2014 he became world champion with the German national team in Brazil , but was not involved in the tournament. He was part of the respective teams that won the silver medal in the 2016 Olympic Games football tournament and the 2017 Confederations Cup . He can be used in various defensive positions, but mostly plays as a central defender .

Career

societies

youth

Ginter started playing football at the age of four at SC March, a small club in Breisgau just outside Freiburg . At the age of eleven, he moved to the young talent center of SC Freiburg for the 2005/06 season and initially played for the Breisgauer youth team . In September 2009, when he started playing for the U17s in the B-Junioren-Bundesliga Süd / Südwest at the age of 15, he was out for several months with a broken tibia and fibula. In the summer of 2010 he moved up to the A-youth coached by Christian Streich , secured a regular place there and won the 2011 DFB junior club cup with the team . After this success, Streich became assistant coach of the professional team under Marcus Sorg , who was, however, already on leave after six months due to unsuccessfulness. As his successor, right after starting his job in January 2012, he brought Ginter to the professionals with whom he completed the winter preparations.

Professional at SC Freiburg

On the following Bundesliga matchday, Ginter, who had just turned 18, made his first competitive appearance for the professionals. He was substituted on in the 70th minute and scored the 1-0 winning goal against FC Augsburg shortly before the end of the game . Two days later he signed his first professional contract with SC Freiburg. In the course of the second half of the season he worked out a regular place next to Fallou Diagne in central defense. With the professionals, Ginter achieved relegation in the Bundesliga. At the same time, he played individual games for the A-Jugend and won the DFB Junior Club Cup with them as in the previous year. His contract ran until the summer of 2017. In the following season , the young Ginter had a regular place with the professionals, mostly in central defense, and only had to pause for a while due to a vertebral injury. With the team and coach Streich, he reached fifth place in the Bundesliga and thus the club was qualified for the UEFA Europa League . In the DFB Cup, Ginter reached the semi-finals with SC Freiburg.

Ginter was also a regular in the 2013/14 season and he made his first European appearances in the Europa League. Here, however, Freiburg failed already in the preliminary round and the team also played against relegation for a long time in the Bundesliga, after several players had switched to financially stronger clubs before the season. After the end of the season, Ginter also went this way.

Borussia Dortmund

In July 2014 Ginter moved to Borussia Dortmund ; He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2019 and was given jersey number 28. Before the start of the 2014/15 Bundesliga season , he won the DFL Supercup with Borussia Dortmund . Ginter's first season in Dortmund was marked by many games on the bench and a few games in the starting line-up and twice he was used for the Borussia amateur team in the third division . He was also just a spectator at the DFB Cup final, which BVB lost to VfL Wolfsburg . In the second year he came on more missions, but could hardly consider himself a regular player. In the DFB Cup final against FC Bayern Munich , which was lost on penalties , he only came on as a substitute. His third year in Dortmund was much more enjoyable for him, he was in the starting line-up 35 times in a total of 51 competitive games for BVB, including in May 2017 in the 2-1 final win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the DFB Cup. He won his first major club title as a professional footballer.

Borussia Monchengladbach

At the beginning of July 2017, Ginter moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach . He made his debut for the new employer in the first competitive game of the season with a 2-1 win against Rot-Weiss Essen on August 11, 2017 in the first round of the DFB Cup. In the Bundesliga season, Ginter played over 90 minutes in all 34 games. He scored five goals, his first on September 30, 2017 in a 2-1 home win against Hannover 96 on matchday 7.

The following season 2018/19 he started again as a regular player until he sustained a serious facial injury in an unfortunate collision with Hanoverian player Noah Sarenren Bazee on matchday 12 , which forced him to take a longer break. Matthias Ginter made 27 Bundesliga games and one goal this season.

In the 2019/20 season , Ginter was again a regular player and played 31 Bundesliga games, all of them in the starting line-up, and scored one goal. On September 19, 2019, in the 4-0 home defeat against Wolfsberger AC , he was also able to make his international debut for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Europa League . The Bundesliga season ended in fourth place, qualifying for the group stage of the 2020/21 Champions League .

Matthias Ginter's contract runs until 2021.

National team

Ginter played six times for the U18 team and five times for the U19 . He took part with the U21 national team in the U21 European Championship 2013 and retired with the team after the group stage; at the U21 European Championship 2015 he reached the semi-finals with the team. He played a total of 18 games for the U21s.

Ginter made his debut for the senior national team on March 5, 2014 in a 1-0 test match victory in the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Stuttgart against Chile . He came on in the 89th minute for Mesut Özil . In the 106-year history of the German national soccer team , Ginter was the 900th player. In the following test match against Poland on May 13th in Hamburg he was in the starting line-up for the first time and played a full 90 minutes. The game ended 0-0.

He was the youngest player in the DFB squad for the 2014 World Cup . With the German team he was world champion at the soccer world championship in Brazil, whereby he - as well as his later Dortmund club colleagues Kevin Großkreutz and Erik Durm - remained without commitment. Ginter is the youngest German world champion to date with 20 years and 176 days on the final day.

In the summer of 2016, Ginter was not nominated for the European Championship in France by Joachim Löw . Instead, Horst Hrubesch , who was in charge of the Olympic selection, appointed him to the roster for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . With the exception of one round game, he played there all games and scored two goals. The final was lost to hosts Brazil on penalties, in which Ginter converted the first penalty.

Ginter was part of the German national team for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia , which he won with the team. With the exception of the first group game, he was on the pitch from the start of every game, including the final against Chile, which was won 1-0. At this tournament he, Shkodran Mustafi and captain Julian Draxler were the only 2014 world champions in the German squad.

National coach Löw appointed Matthias Ginter to the squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Germany only finished last in its preliminary group and was eliminated for the first time after the preliminary round of a World Cup. Ginter was not used in any of the three group games.

After Ginter until then, apart from the Confederations Cup, had to consider himself mostly as a supplementary player, his game shares increased significantly after the World Cup. Until November 2019, he only missed one qualifying game for the 2020 European Football Championship due to injury. On November 16, 2019, he scored his first international goal in a 4-0 qualification victory over Belarus with the 1-0 win at Borussia-Park . Mathias Ginter is the first Borussia Mönchengladbach player to score an international goal in Mönchengladbach . At the end of the season, the goal for the international goal and Ginter was voted national player of the year.

Style of play

In his youth Matthias Ginter was mostly used as an attacking or defensive midfielder. After his jump into the professional squad of SC Freiburg at the beginning of 2012, he was therefore initially scheduled in the defensive midfield. Due to the failure of four central defenders, he was transferred to the defense center and established himself in this position in the Bundesliga. Both at Borussia Dortmund and in the German national team, Ginter often held the position of right full-back. Ginter gets by with very few fouls for a central defender. He has only 15 in 206 league games yellow cards seen and has never had a yellow card suspension served. He has never been expelled from the field in the Bundesliga either.

successes

National team

• World Champion : 2014 (without commitment)
• FIFA Confederations Cup : 2017
• Olympic silver medal : 2016

society

Sc freiburg

• DFB Junior Club Cup Winner (2): 2011 , 2012

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB Cup Winner : 2017
• DFL Supercup winner : 2014

Awards

• DFB national player of the year : 2019
• Fritz Walter Medal in Gold (2): 2012 (U-18) , 2013 (U-19)
• Silver bay leaf : 2014 as world champion, 2016 as winner of the Olympic silver medal
• National team goal of the year 2019

Others

At the same time as his first Bundesliga season, Ginter passed his Abitur in Freiburg. In March 2018 he completed a distance learning course to become a certified sports manager .

He witnessed the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris and the attack on the Borussia Dortmund team bus in 2017. Ginter's eighth international match was the friendly against France on November 13, 2015 in Paris, while the terrorist attacks were carried out in front of the stadium and in the city center . The players spent the night in the stadium for safety reasons. As a player from Borussia Dortmund, Ginter himself experienced an attack when a man detonated an explosive device on the fully occupied Borussia Dortmund team bus before the Champions League game against AS Monaco , which he hoped would cause the club's shares to lose value. Ginter himself was unharmed; only Ginter's teammate Marc Bartra was injured in the arm. In 2018, Ginter testified in court as one of three players alongside Bartra and Roman Weidenfeller .

Ginter married in May 2018 and fathered a son on January 19, 2020 (his own birthday). He has an older brother who was denied a career as a professional footballer due to injuries.

Web links

Commons : Matthias Ginter  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Matthias Ginter in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Matthias Ginter in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Matthias Ginter in the database of weltfussball.de
• Matthias Ginter in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Daniel Weber: Home game: Matthias Ginter. (No longer available online.) Chilli Freiburg GmbH, August 23, 2012, archived from the original on January 8, 2014 ; accessed on July 11, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Performance data for the 2009/10 season , transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 11, 2019
4. ↑ René Kübler: Double the challenge. Badischer Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, January 11, 2012, accessed on January 8, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Professional contracts for four football students. scfreiburg.com, January 23, 2012, accessed January 8, 2014 . 
6. ↑ U19 defends the DFB Cup title. scfreiburg.com, accessed January 8, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Ginter: "If I change, then to BVB". badische-zeitung.de , June 11, 2014, accessed on June 23, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Performance data for the 2012/13 season , transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 11, 2019
9. ↑ Borussia Dortmund sign Matthias Ginter BVB.de, accessed on July 17, 2014
10. ↑ Report on the BVB website, accessed on July 4, 2017
11. ↑ Borussia signs Matthias Ginter on borussia.de
12. ^ Matthias Ginter the 900th national player. March 6, 2014, accessed March 6, 2014 . 
13. ↑ The Olympic squad has been determined. DFB, July 15, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016 . 
14. ↑ This is the German squad for the Confed Cup 2017. TZ.de, June 19, 2017, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Ginter succeeds in what no Gladbacher has done before. In: kicker.de. November 17, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 . 
16. ↑ https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/ginter-ist-nationalplayer-des-jahres-2019-212015/
17. ↑ https://www.dfb.de/news/detail/ginter-erzielt-das-tor-des-jahres-2019-211978/
18. ↑ ^{a b} Matthias Ginter . In: International Sports Archive . Issue 03/2016 from January 19, 2016, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 10/2018. Retrieved from Munzinger Online
19. ↑ More professionals are starting their studies - Bayer goalkeeper Lomb: “Now it's getting more present” , transfermarkt.de, accessed on April 2, 2020
20. ↑ Louis Lewitan: Matthias Ginter: "We were lucky in misfortune" . In: The time . June 29, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de ).
21. ↑ The next world champion marries his beautiful player wife. May 21, 2018, accessed May 24, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Borussia's Matthias Ginter became a father. In: Rheinische Post. February 6, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .