Niklas Süle

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Niklas Süle
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Niklas Süle with the national team (2018)
Personnel
birthday September 3, 1995
place of birth Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size 195 cm
position Defense
Juniors
Years station
0000-2006 Rot-Weiß Walldorf
2006-2009 Eintracht Frankfurt
2009 SV Darmstadt 98
2010-2013 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2013 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II 6 (0)
2013-2017 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 108 (7)
2017– FC Bayern Munich 66 (4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010-2011 Germany U16 10 (2)
2011–2012 Germany U17 16 (3)
2012-2013 Germany U18 4 (0)
2013-2014 Germany U19 3 (0)
2014 Germany U20 1 (0)
2014-2016 Germany U21 11 (1)
2016 Germany Olympic selection 6 (0)
2016– Germany 24 (1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: October 19, 2019

2 As of October 13, 2019

Niklas Süle (born September 3, 1995 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German soccer player . After several years at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , he has been playing almost exclusively as a central defender at Bayern Munich since 2017 . He has been in the same position in the German national team since 2016 .

Origin and education

Süle's family comes from Hungary on his father's side . His grandfather György emigrated to Germany with his wife from the Hungarian capital Budapest . His father Georg was born in Germany, but until he was 16 he had both a German and a Hungarian passport. Süle's parents separated when he was four years old; he has a brother who is three years older, who is also football enthusiast. Because of his surname, which is similar to the Turkish name Süleyman , Süle once received a request from representatives of the Turkish Football Association who thought he was of Turkish descent.

At the same time as his football career, Süle graduated from secondary school at the Kraichgau-Realschule in Sinsheim.

Career

societies

Beginnings

Süle started playing football at Rot-Weiß Walldorf and at the age of ten moved to the youth department of Eintracht Frankfurt , for which he was active for three seasons. In June 2009 he moved to SV Darmstadt 98 , to which he was a member for six months before he was signed by TSG 1899 Hoffenheim during the winter break .

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

For the 2012/13 season, Süle moved up to the second team of Hoffenheim, for which he was used six times in two seasons in the Regionalliga Südwest . In his first season the defender also made his first appearances in the Bundesliga . He made his debut on May 11, 2013 (33rd matchday) in the 1: 4 defeat in the home game against Hamburger SV . At 17 years, 8 months and 8 days until February 8, 2020, the defender was the youngest player that TSG had played in the Bundesliga. He scored his first Bundesliga goal in the following season on November 2, 2013 in a 2-1 defeat in the home game against Bayern Munich with the opening goal in the 34th minute. Between December 2014 and May 2015, the defender was out on a long-term basis due to a torn cruciate ligament. On March 31, 2017, Süle, who had been in central defense at TSG from autumn 2013, played his 100th Bundesliga game against Hertha BSC and scored the goal to make it 2-1 in a 3-1 away win. He finished fourth in the table with TSG Hoffenheim, their best season, helping them to take part in the Champions League play-offs for the first time , which the team successfully contested without him.

FC Bayern Munich

2018 during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich

For the 2017/18 season he was signed by FC Bayern Munich , which provided him with a contract that ran until June 30, 2022. On August 18, 2017 (1st match day), the defender played his first Bundesliga game for Bayern in a 3-1 home win against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and scored the 1-0 goal in the ninth minute, the first goal of the 55th Bundesliga season .

In his first two seasons, Süle won the championship and the DFL Supercup twice with the club as well as the DFB Cup once ; In spring 2018 he reached the semi-finals of the Champions League with FC Bayern , where they were eliminated by Real Madrid . From the 2018/19 season , Süle was a regular in central defense and played alongside changing partners such as Mats Hummels or later Lucas Hernández . On October 19, 2019, Süle suffered another cruciate ligament rupture in the Bundesliga match against FC Augsburg and was out for months. In mid-February 2020, the defender was able to start individual training. When he won the cup on July 4, 2020, he was back in the Bayern squad for the first time. On July 31, 2020, Süle made his comeback in a friendly against Olympique Marseille . On August 8, 2020, he played a competitive game for the first time since October 2019 when he came on for Jerome Boateng in the 63rd minute of the UEFA Champions League against Chelsea FC . In Bayern's Champions League victory , he came on again in the 25th minute for Boateng after he had torn a muscle fiber. So he won the triple with Bayern .

National team

Süle made his debut on October 15, 2010 in the U16 national team , which won 3-2 in Göttingen against the Northern Irish selection . He scored his first international goal two days later in Baunatal in a 4-1 win against the same opponent with the goal to make it 2-0 in the 65th minute. He took part with the U17 national team at the European Championship , which was held in Slovenia from May 4 to 16, 2012 , and played four tournament games there, including the final, which was lost 4-5 on penalties against the Netherlands . At the Olympic soccer tournament from August 3rd to 20th, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro , he played all six tournament games. The final against Brazil was lost 4-5 on penalties, with Süle converting his penalty. On November 1, 2016, he and his teammates from the Olympic team were awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by the Federal President .

In the first international game after the European Championship on August 31, 2016 in Mönchengladbach against Finland , Süle made his debut in the senior national team with his starting eleven in a 2-0 win . National coach Joachim Löw nominated him for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 in Russia . In the tournament that the German team won, he made four appearances, including a brief appearance in the 1-0 final win over Chile on July 2, 2017. The defender was also in the squad at the 2018 World Cup , which was also held in Russia was used in the last of the three group matches; then the reigning world champion was eliminated from the competition. In an international test match against the Russian national team on November 15, 2018 , Süle scored his first international goal in a 3-0 win.

successes

National team

societies

FC Bayern Munich

Awards

Web links

Commons : Niklas Süle  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fcbayernmunchen.hu: Niklas Süle magyar származású ( Memento from December 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Achtzehn99.de : Julius Illes: “Tapemaster J.” in retirement
  3. ↑ a b Niklas Süle . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 44/2016 from November 1, 2016, supplemented by news from the MA-Journal until week 20/2018 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  4. ↑ Curious glitch: Turkey wanted Süle sport1.de, on March 25, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2017
  5. ^ Süle, Niklas - Kicker.de
  6. ^ Gisdol: "Ordinary performance from Süle" - 1899 actual ( Memento from June 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Süle replaced: Beier now Hoffenheim's youngest Bundesliga player , transfermarkt.de, accessed on February 9, 2020
  8. ↑ Süle's first Bundesliga club on Fussballdaten.de
  9. ↑ Press release on the FC Bayern Munich website, accessed on January 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ Niklas Süle suffers cruciate ligament rupture fcbayern.de, accessed on November 23, 2019
  11. ↑ Niklas Süle starts running , fcbayern.com, accessed on February 17, 2020
  12. ↑ Süle celebrates comeback against Marseille after 286 days of waiting fcbayern.com, accessed on July 31, 2020
  13. ↑ Welcome back! Sink celebrates comeback against Chelsea fcbayern.com, accessed on August 9, 2020
  14. ↑ The Olympic squad has been determined. In: www.dfb.de. Deutscher Fußball-Bund eV (DFB), July 15, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Award of the Silver Laurel Leaf on bundespraesident.de on November 1, 2016, accessed on November 14, 2016
  16. ↑ Match pairing on dfb.de.
  17. ↑ This is the German squad for the Confed Cup 2017. TZ.de, June 19, 2017, accessed on June 19, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Michael Horeni: An unexpected German summer fairy tale. In: faz.net. July 2, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Süle, Niklas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany