Michael Langer (soccer player)

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Michael Langer
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Michael Langer (2019)
Personnel
birthday January 6, 1985
place of birth BregenzAustria
size 195 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
FC Viktoria 62 Bregenz
0000-2003 FC Hard
2003-2004 VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2007 VfB Stuttgart II 28 (0)
2006-2007 VfB Stuttgart 1 (0)
2008-2010 Sc freiburg 14 (0)
2008-2010 SC Freiburg II 11 (0)
2010–2012 FSV Frankfurt 5 (0)
2010–2012 FSV Frankfurt II 12 (0)
2012-2014 SV Sandhausen 8 (0)
2014-2015 Vålerenga Oslo 42 (0)
2016 Tampa Bay rowdies 0 (0)
2016-2017 IFK Norrköping 28 (0)
2017– FC Schalke 04 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2006 Austria U-21 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2017/18

Michael Langer (born January 6, 1985 in Bregenz , Vorarlberg ) is an Austrian football player in the position of goalkeeper who is currently under contract with FC Schalke 04 .

Career

Langer was a substitute goalkeeper in the professional team of VfB Stuttgart from the 2006/07 Bundesliga season until the end of 2007 . Between 2004 and 2007 he played 28 games for the Stuttgart amateur team.

Michael Langer made his Bundesliga debut on March 10, 2007 in the home game against VfL Wolfsburg , when he was in goal for Timo Hildebrand, who was sick with the flu . The game ended 0-0.

After Langer was unable to assert himself against both Hildebrand and his successor Raphael Schäfer at VfB, he moved to SC Freiburg on January 2, 2008 . With the Breisgauer he signed a contract valid until the end of June 2011.

At the beginning of November 2009, Langer completed a 3-day trial training session in the Premier League at Manchester United , where he trained with the professional team. In mid-December, he also completed a trial training with the English second division club Ipswich Town . Langer completed trial training units for several days at the Hungarian first division club Debreceni VSC from January 21, 2010 .

For the 2010/11 season Langer moved to the second division club FSV Frankfurt , where he signed a contract until 2012. There he was substitute goalkeeper behind Patric Klandt , occasionally he was also in goal for the U-23 representation of the FSV in the Regionalliga Süd. He made his debut in the first team on matchday 30 in the home game against 1860 Munich (2-1), when coach Hans-Jürgen Boysen put him in place of the goalkeeper Klandt, who had previously been insecure in the games. Langer played the last five games of the season for the FSV. In the following second division season, however, Klandt was again in the Bornheimer's goal, so that Langer was only used in the two appearances of the FSV in the DFB Cup.

In the summer of 2012, Langer signed a contract with second division promoted SV Sandhausen until June 30, 2014, which was also valid for the third division. After he was not used in the second division season 2013/14 , and was only the club's fourth goalkeeper, he moved to Vålerenga Oslo in April 2014 , where he received a contract until the end of the current Norwegian first division season , which then went up to December 2015 was extended.

On February 1, 2016, Langer signed a contract with the US North American Soccer League franchise Tampa Bay Rowdies . After only half a year he returned to Europe and in July 2016 joined the reigning Swedish champions IFK Norrköping , with whom the 31-year-old signed a one-year contract. Just two days later, he was substituting for Andreas Vaikla in the season game against Gefle IF. As the season progressed, he established himself as a regular goalkeeper and played 13 championship games by the end of the 2016 season. In the following season he was the number one of the Swedish club under coach Jens Gustafsson and played all 15 league games until mid-July 2017. Nevertheless, the club and the players could not agree on an extension of the expiring contract.

On August 4, 2017, Langer signed a two-year contract with the German Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 , which was extended in spring 2019 to June 30, 2021.

successes

  • German champion 2007 with VfB Stuttgart
  • German second division champion 2009 with SC Freiburg
  • German vice-champions 2017/18 with FC Schalke 04

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Goalkeeper Langer on trial training at ManUnited ( Memento from March 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Langer is auditioning at Ipswich Town , accessed on December 17, 2009 at www.badische-zeitung.de
  3. Osztrák kapust tesztel a Loki (Hungarian), accessed on January 21, 2010
  4. fsv-frankfurt.de: Langer completes the goalkeeping team of the FSV
  5. Langer is looking for a new challenge at SVS. kicker.de (May 29, 2012)
  6. Christian Adam: Langer is moving to Norway . Vorarlberger Nachrichten, April 1, 2014, accessed on the same day
  7. Michael Langer stands between the posts at Valerenga Oslo . Press release of SV Sandhausen, April 1, 2014, accessed on the same day
  8. ^ Rowdies Sign Austrian Goalkeeper Michael Langer . In: RowdiesSoccer.com . February 1, 2016. Accessed February 1, 2016.
  9. IFK värvar Michael Langer . In: ifknorrkoping.se . July 21, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  10. ifknorrkoping.se: "IFK Norrköping och Michael Langer går skilda vägar" (accessed on July 10, 2017)
  11. Michael Langer completes the goalkeeper trio , accessed on August 4, 2017
  12. S04 extends contract with Michael Langer until June 30, 2021 , schalke04.de, May 19, 2019, accessed on May 19, 2019