Max Meyer (soccer player)

Max Meyer
in the jersey of FC Schalke 04 (2015)
Personnel
Surname	Maximilian Meyer
birthday	September 18, 1995
place of birth	Oberhausen ,  Germany
size	173 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
2000-2002	FC Sardegna Oberhausen
2002-2004	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen
2004-2009	MSV Duisburg
2009-2013	FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2012-2018	FC Schalke 04	146 (17)
2013	FC Schalke 04 II	1 0(2)
2018–	Crystal Palace	42 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2009	Germany U15	1 0(1)
2010-2011	Germany U16	6 0(2)
2011–2012	Germany U17	18 0(9)
2013-2014	Germany U19	6 0(3)
2014-2017	Germany U21	24 0(7)
2016	Germany Olympia	6 0(4)
2014-2016	Germany	4 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 8, 2020

Maximilian "Max" Meyer (born September 18, 1995 in Oberhausen ) is a German soccer player . He has been under contract with the London football club Crystal Palace since 2018 .

Club career

Beginnings

Meyer began playing soccer at the local club FC Sardegna Oberhausen, for which he played from 2000 to 2002. He then played for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen until 2004 . Then he joined the youth department of the MSV Duisburg . For MSV he played five years before going into the 2009 youth academy of FC Schalke 04 moved. In his youth, Meyer was also active as a futsal player at PSV Wesel-Lackhausen .

Junior time at FC Schalke 04

In the 2010/11 season he scored seven goals in 24 games and prepared two more goals in the B-Jugend-Bundesliga West. In the 2011/12 season he exceeded this mark when he had already scored eleven goals after 17 games and presented ten more. He was then appointed to the A youth team (U19) at Schalke 04 at the age of 16 . With her he won the German A-Youth Championship in 2012.

In the DFB-Pokal game against SV Sandhausen , he was in the professional squad for the first time on October 30, 2012, but was not used.

On December 14, 2012, Meyer signed a sponsorship agreement that ran until June 30, 2015. The agreement included an option for further cooperation.

FC Schalke 04

Meyer in April 2013; behind his then trainer Jens Keller

In the winter break of 2012/13, Schalke took Meyer to the training camp in Qatar . On the 22nd matchday of the 2012/13 Bundesliga season , Meyer made his professional debut when he was substituted on for the away game against 1. FSV Mainz 05 . On March 12, 2013 Meyer played for the first time in a European Cup competition when he was substituted on in the second leg of the Champions League against Galatasaray Istanbul .

In May 2013 Meyer extended his contract, which expired in the summer of 2015, to 2017. While he was still playing with the shirt number 29 in the 2012/13 season , he got the number 7 for the 2013/14 season , which Raúl had previously worn and not for an indefinite period of time more should be forgiven.

In the play-off first leg of the Champions League against PAOK Saloniki , he was in the starting line-up for the first time in a professional game. In November 2013, Meyer extended his contract prematurely until June 30, 2018.

In the 2014/15 season he came as an attacking midfielder to 28 league games in which he was able to score five goals and prepare another. In the 2015/16 season he was also used on the outside under coach André Breitenreiter . For the 2016/17 season , Breitenreiter was replaced by Markus Weinzierl . In the first seven Bundesliga games, Meyer only entered 264 of a possible 630 game minutes. Although he acted again as a tenth, he only played his way into the team after a system change, after which he played a kind of hanging top .

In the 2017/18 season , Meyer was retrained as a defensive midfielder by the new coach Domenico Tedesco . He played 24 Bundesliga games (21 of which were in the starting line-up). Sports director Christian Heidel announced in April 2018 before the home game against Borussia Mönchengladbach that Meyer would not extend his expiring contract and would leave the club in the summer. On April 29, Meyer criticized the behavior of the association in an interview with Bild and stated that he no longer wanted to work with Heidel. A day later, the club denied the allegations and released Meyer from training and games.

Crystal Palace

For the 2018/19 season, Meyer moved to the English Premier League at Crystal Palace . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2021. In his first season, Meyer came under the head coach Roy Hodgson on 29 Premier League appearances (15 times from the start), in which he scored a goal.

National team

After moving to Schalke, he made his debut in the U-15 national team on November 11, 2009 against the U15 Estonia.

Meyer participated with the U-17 national team in the U-17 European Football Championship 2012 in Slovenia . There they were only defeated in the final against the Netherlands. Meyer was elected the tournament's top scorer with three goals and also the best player.

In January 2013 he was nominated for the U-18 national team for the first time . In August he was appointed to the U-19 squad for the first time and was used against Hungary's U19s.

Meyer was used several times during the qualification for the U-19 European Championship in Hungary . For the tournament itself, however, the club refused to approve and justified this with the simultaneous preparation of the season and the player's need for recreation, so that U-19 coach Marcus Sorg finally decided not to be nominated.

On May 13, 2014 Meyer made his international debut in a friendly against Poland. After he was initially appointed to the provisional squad for the 2014 World Cup , he was canceled after the game for the preparatory training camp.

Meyer played in the German U21 the two qualifiers against Ukraine for the 2015 Under-21 Football Championship in the Czech Republic nominated.

In 2016 Meyer took part in the Olympic soccer tournament in Rio de Janeiro . He contributed three goals to the 10-0 win in the third group game against Fiji. After an injury to Leon Goretzka , Meyer was team captain and won the silver medal with the team. On November 1, 2016, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf together with the Olympic soccer team .

On August 31, 2016 Meyer played his second game against Finland in the German national team, two years after his debut, and scored his first international goal with the goal to make it 1-0.

Under U-21 national coach Stefan Kuntz , Meyer won the U21 European Championship 2017 in Poland. He was used in all five games. After the tournament he was elected to the "Team of the Tournament".

Style of play

Meyer plays around Walace at the 2016 Summer Olympics

When asked about his style of play, Meyer named his strengths: "Good ball safety, good overview, good dribbling". He is also certified as having a good finish on goal. Meyer attributes his good technique to the fact that at the age of ten he played futsal for four years in addition to club football . In addition to the training sessions at the club, he also had one futsal unit per week: the futsal game was played immediately after the soccer league game.

Meyer's favored position is that of the central attacking midfielder (" tens "). However, it can also be used on the wings or as a hanging tip . In the 2017/18 season, Meyer played in defensive midfield at Schalke 04.

successes

National team

• U-21 European Champion : 2017
• Olympic silver medal : 2016
• U-17 Vice European Champion : 2012

FC Schalke 04

• German A youth champion : 2011/12
• German runner-up : 2018

Awards

• Top scorer in the U-17 European Championship : 2012
• Best player in the U-17 European Championship : 2012
• Fritz Walter Medal
  • U-17: Silver (2012)
  • U-19: Silver (2014)
• Gelsenkirchen's Sportsman of the Year: 2013

engagement

• In 2014 Max Meyer took over the patronage for the international youth exchange "Multi" of the city of Oberhausen.

Web links

Commons : Max Meyer  - Collection of Images

• Max Meyer in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Max Meyer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Max Meyer in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Max Meyer in the database of kicker.de
• Max Meyer in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spox.com: "Germany is the last enclave" , accessed on February 8, 2017.
2. ↑ transfermarkt.de . Performance data Max Meyer season 10/11.
3. ↑ WAZ : Schalkes U19 triumphs over Bayern in the final , accessed on June 17, 2012.
4. ↑ transfermarkt.de . Match report FC Schalke 04 - SV Sandhausen, DFB-Pokal / 2nd round, October 30, 2012.
5. ^ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV (Hrsg.): Funding contract for Schalkes Meyer. (No longer available online.) In: FC Schalke website 04. 2012, archived from the original on December 16, 2012 ; Retrieved December 14, 2012 . 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.  
6. ↑ Three talents from the Knappenschmiede will travel to Qatar ( memento of the original from December 26, 2014) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Schalke 04 website, accessed January 1, 2013. 
7. ↑ Bitter end in the Champions League! ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2014 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. FC Schalke 04 website, accessed on March 12, 2013. 
8. ↑ Meyer extended until 2017 , FC Schalke on facebook.
9. ↑ WAZ : Schalke talent Meyer inherits jersey number 7 from Raul , accessed on June 26, 2013.
10. ↑ Max Meyer extends contract until June 30, 2018 , website FC Schalke 04, accessed on November 30, 2013.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Max Meyer: The new constant at FC Schalke 04 , bundesliga.com, accessed on April 30, 2018.
12. ↑ Max Meyer will leave FC Schalke 04 in the summer , eurosport.de, April 26, 2018, accessed on April 30, 2018.
13. ↑ Meyer feels bullied and calls Tönnies statements "a mess" , kicker.de, April 29, 2018, accessed on April 30, 2018.
14. ↑ Max Meyer no longer takes part in professional training , schalke04.de, April 30, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018.
15. ↑ Max Meyer Joins Crystal Palace , cpfc.co.uk, August 2, 2018, accessed August 2, 2018.
16. ↑ transfermarkt.de . Match report of the German U15 against Estonia.
17. ↑ UEFA.com . German-language website of the UEFA / U17 tournament dates.
18. ↑ 2012: Max Meyer . UEFA Best Player Report.
19. ↑ International game trip : Max Meyer nominated for U18 national team ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . FC Schalke 04 website. 
20. ↑ Meyer is not supposed to go to the U19 European Championship on: reviersport.de, June 11, 2014
21. ↑ Without Meyer and Werner: Sorg names contingent on: kicker.de, July 10, 2014
22. ↑ Löw nominates 30 players for the extended World Cup squad ( Memento from May 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) dfb.de, May 8, 2014.
23. ↑ A-Team with 27 players to the training camp in South Tyrol ( Memento from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) dfb.de, May 14, 2014.
24. ↑ Spiegel Online : Playoff victory against Ukraine: Germany's U21s are close to participating in the European Championship , accessed on October 10, 2014.
25. ↑ Olympic tournament men, 2016, preliminary round, 3rd matchday on kicker.de, accessed on August 10, 2016
26. ↑ Press release from the Office of the Federal President of November 1, 2016: Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf. Retrieved March 31, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Spox.com: DFB wins at Schweinsteiger farewell , accessed on September 1, 2016
28. ↑ UEFA.com: The official team of the U21 EURO tournament. Retrieved July 3, 2017 . 
29. ↑ Max Meyer: "Team success is paramount " . Official website of the DFB - Interview Max Meyer. Retrieved May 12, 2012
30. ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger : Schalke offensive player: Meyer slips into the role of Raul , from November 8, 2016, accessed on November 20, 2016.
31. ^ Fritz Walter Medal 2012
32. ↑ Max Meyer receives the Fritz Walter Medal in silver
33. ↑ Max Meyer is Gelsenkirchen's Sportsman of the Year , FC Schalke 04 website, accessed on February 8, 2014.
34. ↑ multi-online.org ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . International youth exchange "Multi" of the city of Oberhausen, contribution to the patronage of Max Meyer