Raphael Schäfer

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Raphael Schäfer
Raphael Schäfer FCN 2013.jpg
Raphael Schäfer (2013)
Personnel
birthday January 30, 1979
place of birth Kędzierzyn-Koźle ,  Poland
size 190 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1987-1991 SC Drispenstedt
1991-1996 Hannover 96
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1998 Hannover 96 1 (0)
1998-2001 VfB Lübeck 76 (0)
2001-2007 1. FC Nuremberg 130 (0)
2007-2008 VfB Stuttgart 23 (0)
2008-2017 1. FC Nuremberg 228 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-15 4 (0)
Germany U-16 4 (0)
Germany U-18 10 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Raphael Schäfer ( Polish Rafał Szaefer ; born January 30, 1979 in Kędzierzyn-Koźle , Poland ) is a former German football player on the position of goalkeeper .

biography

Childhood and youth

Raphael Schäfer was born in 1979 as a member of the German minority in Kędzierzyn-Koźle , Poland , and came to Northern Germany with his father in 1986 as a resettler . In 1987 he started playing football at SC Drispenstedt from the Hildesheim district of Drispenstedt . At the age of twelve Hannover 96 brought him into the youth team of the then second division club .

society

For the 1996/97 season, the 17-year-old Schäfer moved into the squad of the first team of Hannover 96, which played in the Regionalliga . In the following two seasons, after which the team rose again to the second division, he did not make it into the regular formation. So he decided for the 1998/99 season to move back to VfB Lübeck in the Regionalliga Nord. After eight appearances in the 1998/99 season, he developed into a regular goalkeeper in the following season and completed 33 league games. 2000/01 he played in 35 championship games. For three years, VfB only reached the place immediately behind the promotion ranks to the 2nd Bundesliga.

Captain Schäfer held up the 2007 DFB Cup , which he won in his last game in his first time in Nuremberg.

In the summer of 2001, Schäfer moved to 1. FC Nürnberg , which had just been promoted to the 1. Bundesliga . Here he had to be content with the post of substitute keeper behind Darius Kampa and still made his first division debut against Borussia Mönchengladbach on March 16, 2002 . Despite a good performance, he had to step back into the second rank for the next game. There he also spent the following season, so that by the time Nuremberg was relegated in summer 2003 he had only played three Bundesliga games.

With the beginning of the second division 2003/04 season, the situation at the Nürnberger Tor changed. Schäfer was also named number 1 because the club management around Wolfgang Wolf , who was then working in a double function (trainer and manager), was speculating on a profitable sale of Kampa. When Kampa stayed in the club and was not sold, Schäfer defended his position as a regular goalkeeper and played 33 games for 1. FC Nürnberg. Even after the promotion at the beginning of the 2004/05 season, Schäfer prevailed in the duel for the space between the posts, this time against Daniel Klewer . After surviving an injury, he contributed to relegation in the second half of the season, so that his position as regular goalkeeper at 1. FC Nürnberg at the beginning of the 2005/06 season was almost undisputed for the first time. He played all 34 Bundesliga games and was replaced once due to an injury. For the 2006/07 season, Schäfer was elected team captain . During the winter break, the fans voted him the first half of the season via an internet vote . In his last competitive game for Nuremberg, team captain Schäfer faced his future club, the reigning German champions VfB Stuttgart , in the 2006/07 DFB Cup final . The game ended 3-2 after extra time for the club.

On January 23, 2007, 1. FC Nürnberg and VfB Stuttgart agreed on a transfer from Schäfer for the 2007/08 season . Although his contract would have expired at the end of the season, 1. FC Nürnberg used an option to extend it. Thus VfB paid a transfer fee because he wanted to sign him immediately as a replacement for the goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand who had moved abroad . Schäfer agreed with the Stuttgarters on a four-year contract valid until 2011. He played his first league game for the Swabians on August 10, 2007 in the season opener against FC Schalke 04 (2-2). He also played in the European Cup for the first time: with VfB Stuttgart he had six appearances in the 2007/08 Champions League , but after the preliminary round he was eliminated with only three points. Schäfer had a bad stand with some fans from the start, because he had demanded a red card for the Stuttgart Cacau in the 2007 DFB Cup final as captain of 1. FC Nürnberg . After the away defeat on the 18th matchday in the second leg against Schalke, his rival Sven Ulreich was preferred in the next ten Bundesliga games. On matchday 29, Schäfer finally made his comeback between the posts at VfB in a home win (3-0) against his former club, 1. FC Nürnberg. Before the last game of the season at home against Arminia Bielefeld , coach Armin Veh and manager Horst Heldt Schäfer offered to be released until the end of the season to protect him from the displeasure of some fans. Schäfer opted for the exemption. On June 25, 2008, his contract with VfB was terminated; the club had signed Jens Lehmann as the new goalkeeper.

Raphael Schäfer at an autograph session in 2011

For the 2008/09 season , Schäfer returned to 1. FC Nürnberg, who had meanwhile been relegated to the Second Bundesliga. According to an internet vote, he was the new addition that fans were looking forward to the most. He immediately became a regular goalkeeper with number 1 on his back. During the winter break he was named the best goalkeeper in the Second Bundesliga by Kicker-Sportmagazin , even if the club was eighth behind its own requirements. On May 13, 2009 he stayed in the game against VfL Osnabrück for the ninth time in a row in a home game without conceding a goal. Nürnberg exceeded the previous second division record of KSV Hessen Kassel , which had remained in the 1980/81 season 784 home game minutes without conceding a goal. Nuremberg had already broken the record for the single-track Second Bundesliga in the previous home game. In the following home game on the last match day against 1860 Munich, the series ended after 945 minutes when Schäfer conceded a goal in the 83rd minute. In addition, 1. FC Nürnberg had not conceded a goal in five games from the 24th to the 28th match day, which meant a new club record in professional football. At the end of the season, Schäfer had played through all 34 league games, two cup games and one relegation game. In the 87th minute of the second relegation game against Energie Cottbus on May 31, 2009, the number 2, Daniel Klewer, got another season appearance after the decision about promotion had already been made. Schäfer also wore the captain's armband for most of the season, as the actual captain Andreas Wolf had only been on seven missions due to two serious injuries. Even after the second half of the season, the kicker chose him again as the best league goalkeeper. Since he had also not conceded a goal in 16 games, he received the “White Vest” award from DSF.

Raphael Schäfer 2013

On the third matchday of the 2009/10 season , Schäfer completed his 100th first division game for 1. FC Nürnberg in the 2-0 home defeat against Hannover 96. On matchday 13, he caused a sensation during a 3-2 win at champions VfL Wolfsburg when he kicked the former Nuremberg Zvjezdan Misimović between the legs. The referee did not punish this, but the DFB sports court described it on November 26th as “grossly unsportsmanlike conduct in the form of assault against the opponent after a previously unsportsmanlike act against him” and suspended the goalkeeper for four league games. 1. FC Nürnberg lodged an objection and argued that the referee should have seen the situation, which is why the factual decision had to apply, but the ban was confirmed after an oral hearing in Frankfurt. Schäfer was eventually represented by Alexander Stephan , who made his professional debut.

In the second half of the season Schäfer showed stable performances again and only had to be replaced once when he suffered an injury. The club ended the season on the relegation place. In the following games against FC Augsburg Schäfer did not concede a goal and the league succeeded. At the end of the season, over 25,000 fans voted him Cluberer of the Season . For the 2010/11 season , the FCN was sixth in the league.

After relegation from the first Bundesliga in 2014, Schäfer was initially the club's goalkeeper in the second division. In the course of the first half of the season, however, Patrick Rakovsky was able to overtake him as number one in goal, Schäfer even had to be content with third place. After some mistakes by Rakovsky, coach René Weiler again preferred Schäfer.

Schäfer's contract with FCN initially ran until 2016. In 2010, he announced that he would end his career in Nuremberg. At the beginning of November 2015 he announced that he would not extend his contract until June 2016 and that he would end his career at the end of the season. In March 2016, he suffered a partial torn Achilles tendon in the home game against 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He made his comeback on the last matchday on May 15, 2016 in the away game against SC Paderborn 07 and took part in the subsequent relegation games against Eintracht Frankfurt , in which FCN missed promotion to the Bundesliga. After the season, Schäfer extended his contract term for another year. At the end of the 2016/17 season he ended his playing career after almost 400 competitive games for 1. FC Nürnberg. He played his last game on May 14, 2017, the penultimate match day of the season, in the 3-2 defeat of FCN against Fortuna Düsseldorf . Schäfer was the last player still active for the club from the team that had won the DFB Cup ten years earlier.

Schäfer then worked as a goalkeeper coordinator for the licensing and junior division of 1. FC Nürnberg. The collaboration ended on February 28, 2018.

National team

Raphael Schäfer was in the squad of the German U-15 and the U-16 national team . In 1995 he was part of the squad of the German U-17 national team , which took part in the U-17 World Cup in Ecuador in 1995 , but in which he was not used. Schäfer was also in the squad of the German U-18 national team .

According to his own statement, Schäfer had received a request from the Polish national team in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup , but he had rejected it at the request of his father.

Others

Schäfer has been married to his wife Anja since June 5, 2004, with whom he has three daughters. He lives in Nuremberg-Erlenstegen .

Schäfer had learned the German language quickly after his resettlement and had not spoken Polish for a long time before he met Darius Kampa, who was also born in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, and the Polish national player Jacek Krzynówek at 1. FC Nürnberg .

Awards

  • Winner of the “ Die Weiße Weste ” award as the “strongest” goalkeeper in the 2nd Bundesliga in the 2008/09 and 2015/16 seasons.

Title / Achievements

  • German cup winner 2007 with 1. FC Nürnberg
  • Promotion to the Bundesliga
    • 2003/04 with 1. FC Nürnberg as second division champions
    • 2008/09 with 1. FC Nürnberg

Web links

Commons : Raphael Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Frank Hellmann: "There is no substitute for the first division". In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Frankfurter Rundschau GmbH, February 17, 2011, accessed on August 6, 2014 .
  2. Jump up ↑ First half of the season: Raphael Schäfer , January 4, 2007
  3. ↑ Survey on fcn.de
  4. ↑ Master and apprentice as a top duo , December 23, 2008
  5. ↑ Vidosic becomes a guarantee of victory , (kicker online, May 4, 2009)
  6. ↑ Club magazine on the relegation second leg
  7. ↑ “With you, pack it!” , May 24, 2009
  8. ↑ We were only gone briefly , May 31, 2009
  9. ↑ Schäfer: Safe and confident (kicker online, June 8, 2009)
  10. ↑ Raphael's white vest: Now on CLUBtv , August 17, 2009
  11. ^ Nothing countable against Hanover , August 22, 2009
  12. ↑ Schäfer judgment only on Thursday (kicker online, September 25, 2009)
  13. ↑ Schäfer fights back vehemently (kicker online, September 26, 2009)
  14. ↑ DFB confirms Schäfer ban , November 27, 2009
  15. ↑ Raphael Schäfer is “Cluberer of the 2009/10 season” , June 1, 2010
  16. ^ Raphael Schäfer before the anniversary fcn.de, accessed on November 25, 2014
  17. ↑ Goalkeeper Schäfer extended from June 1, 2010 to spox.com in Nuremberg
  18. ↑ Nürnberg's goalkeeper Schäfer wants to end his career in the summer. Berliner Morgenpost , November 2, 2015, archived from the original on December 27, 2019 .;
  19. ↑ 1. FC Nürnberg: Will Raphael Schäfer hang on for another year? In: inFranken.de. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
  20. ^ "Fit and full of energy" in its 15th club season - 1. FC Nürnberg. In: fcn.de. Retrieved June 14, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Raphael Schäfer: He goes and stays. In: fcn.de. May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017 .
  22. ^ 1. FC Nürnberg: The club and Raphael Schäfer end their cooperation. Retrieved March 12, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Goalkeeper Raphael Schäfer marries his Anja ( memento from October 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), June 6, 2004
  24. ↑ Congratulations! Raffa has become a dad ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), January 20, 2006
  25. ^ Papa Schäfer , June 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Raphael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szaefer, Rafał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Kędzierzyn-Koźle , Poland