Roman Weidenfeller

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Roman Weidenfeller
Roman Weidenfeller 2011.jpg
during the championship celebration (2011)
Personnel
birthday August 6, 1980
place of birth Diez ,  Germany
size 190 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
1985-1996 Sportfreunde Eisbachtal
1996-1998 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2002 1. FC Kaiserslautern amateurs 76 (0)
1999-2002 1. FC Kaiserslautern 6 (0)
2002-2004 Borussia Dortmund amateurs 13 (0)
2002-2018 Borussia Dortmund 349 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1997 Germany U-16 1 (0)
1997 Germany U-17 8 (0)
1999-2001 Germany U-21 3 (0)
2005 Team 2006 1 (0)
2013-2015 Germany 5 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Roman Weidenfeller (born August 6, 1980 in Diez ) is a former German football player . He was under contract with Borussia Dortmund for 16 years . In 2014 he became world champion with the national team in Brazil .

Life

Weidenfeller grew up in Nentershausen in the Westerwald. He started playing football at the age of five with Sportfreunde Eisbachtal and played there for eleven years. His father trained him privately on his own meadow and Dirk Hannappel in the club. At the age of 15 he moved to the youth department of 1. FC Kaiserslautern 160 kilometers from Nentershausen and initially lived in the club's boarding school . He is a trained office clerk . On March 3, 2016, his wife gave birth to their first son.

Weidenfeller belongs to the Roman Catholic Church and is committed to roterkeil.net - gets the children off the line , an initiative against child prostitution that was founded by the priest Jochen Reidegeld .

Career

societies

1. FC Kaiserslautern

In 1998, Weidenfeller made the leap into the Palatinate amateur team. In 1999 he was awarded a professional contract, was a substitute goalkeeper for the first team of the FCK and was also the amateurs' regular goalkeeper until 2001. In the seasons 2000/01 and 2001/02 he played three Bundesliga games. On March 8, 2001, he also played in the UEFA Cup against PSV Eindhoven (1-0) and showed an outstanding performance.

Borussia Dortmund

Roman Weidenfeller during training in summer 2006

Weidenfeller was signed by Borussia Dortmund on a free transfer in July 2002. In Dortmund he acted as a substitute goalkeeper behind Jens Lehmann . Due to an injury to Lehmann at the end of the season, he came in the 2002/03 season on eleven appearances in the top German division.

After moving from Lehmann to Arsenal FC in the summer of 2003, Weidenfeller was declared the new number one. However, he could not meet the expectations placed in him in the first half of the season and made the headlines several times due to mistakes. At the beginning of the second half of 2004, then coach Matthias Sammer placed his trust in Guillaume Warmuz, who was signed as a substitute in the summer . The older and more experienced Warmuz should give more support to the Dortmund team, which was then in a state of upheaval. Under the new coach Bert van Marwijk , Weidenfeller had to be satisfied with the reserve role at the beginning of the 2004/05 season . On the 9th matchday he was surprisingly preferred to Warmuz in the home game against Hamburger SV . Despite initial incomprehension among the Dortmund fans, he fought back his regular position in goal and the favor of the supporters.

Weidenfeller in action during the championship season (2010)

In the 2005/06 season, Weidenfeller strengthened his position as a regular goalkeeper due to a steady increase in performance. The trade press recognized his performance with numerous awards. He was voted footballer of the month by football fans in both March and May 2005 .

At the beginning of the 2007/08 season Weidenfeller got into an argument with the Schalke international Gerald Asamoah , in the course of which he insulted the striker. After a hearing by the DFB, Weidenfeller was banned for three games "because of a degrading and denigrating statement" according to Section 9 of the DFB's legal and procedural rules. He was also sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros. According to his own account, Weidenfeller described Schalke as a "gay pig". Other sources state that he denigrated his counterpart as a "black pig".

After a shoulder injury, Weidenfeller was operated on on December 22, 2007 and only returned to BVB team training at the end of March. On April 12, 2008, shortly before his planned comeback, he pulled a partial tear of the inner ligament during training and was thus out until the end of the season. Therefore, a week later , he was not in the squad in the DFB Cup final in Berlin , which was lost 2-1 (a.d.) to Bayern Munich . Weidenfeller was injured again in the first game of the 2008/09 season at Bayer Leverkusen. He suffered a flesh wound on his left knee without direct action from an opponent. From the fourth day of the match he was BVB's regular goalkeeper again.

In the 2010/11 season , Weidenfeller became German champions for the first time in his career with Borussia Dortmund . On behalf of the long-injured captain Sebastian Kehl , he accepted the championship trophy as captain of the Dortmund season. In August 2011, Weidenfeller's interview with Ruhr Nachrichten caused irritation at the DFB. After he had repeatedly not been nominated for the national team, he was quoted there with the words: "Maybe I should cut my hair or just become a little more delicate." This was used by some media as an allusion to a supposed homosexuality of national coach Joachim Löw interpreted.

In the 2011/12 season , Weidenfeller won the German championship with Borussia Dortmund for the second time in his career, and on May 12, 2012 he was also the DFB Cup winner . The team beat FC Bayern Munich 5-2 in the final.

In the 2012/13 season, Weidenfeller was particularly praised in the Champions League for his achievements, which had helped Borussia Dortmund move into the final. On May 25, 2013, he and his team lost 2-1 to their national rivals FC Bayern Munich in the first purely German final of this competition.

Weidenfeller played his 300th Bundesliga game on November 1, 2013 in a 6-1 win at home against VfB Stuttgart.

Weidenfeller during the interview at the beginning of the 2014/15 season

In the 2014/15 season, Weidenfeller showed fluctuating performances, while Borussia slipped out of the top of the Bundesliga for the first time in years and even slipped into the relegation battle. At the end of the first half of the season he lost his regular place to the Australian Mitchell Langerak . For the second half of the season he was called up again constantly in the gate, among other things because Langerak took part in the Asian Cup taking place in the spring . At the end of the season he had to sit on the bench again, while BVB was able to catch up with the exception of a Europa League starting place. After playing in the last game of the season against Werder Bremen , Langerak was preferred to him, as expected, in the DFB Cup final , which was lost 3-1 to VfL Wolfsburg .

After speculating about Langerak's establishment and a duel with Weidenfeller, Borussia Dortmund signed the Swiss goalkeeper Roman Bürki from the relegated SC Freiburg under the new coach Thomas Tuchel . Shortly thereafter, Langerak moved to VfB Stuttgart , and there was a duel between Weidenfeller and Bürki. In the preparation phase it was unclear for a long time who Tuchel would bring up in the gate. In qualifying for the Europa League, both got one use each. After all, Weidenfeller had to watch the first Bundesliga game of the new season against Borussia Mönchengladbach from the bench. Tuchel stated that Weidenfeller would play the international cup games for it. Weidenfeller made his first Bundesliga appearance in the 2015/16 season in the 2-0 away win on matchday 24 against Darmstadt 98 , when he took on the sick Bürki. On May 27, 2017, Weidenfeller won the DFB Cup with BVB for the second time in his career. In the final against Eintracht Frankfurt (2: 1) he was a substitute goalkeeper, previously Weidenfeller had in the first two rounds of the competition against Eintracht Trier (3: 0) and 1. FC Union Berlin (4: 1 n. E.) between the Post stood.

On May 9, 2017, he extended his contract term with BVB to June 30, 2018. At the end of the 2017/18 season, he ended his active career after substituting for goalkeeper Bürki on matchday 34, but will continue to work at BVB in a different position be.

His farewell game took place on September 7, 2018 in front of over 70,000 spectators in the Westfalenstadion .

National team

Weidenfeller (center) next to Ron-Robert Zieler (left), Kevin Großkreutz (2nd from right) and André Schürrle (right) with the World Cup trophy at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil

Weidenfeller made his debut in a DFB selection on April 3, 1997 in Weinheim when the U-16 national team lost 1-0 to Turkey. Four months later, on August 10th in Oberhaching , in the 5-1 win against the Oman team, and on August 22nd in Hard , in the 5-2 win against the Austrian team, he played his first two international matches for the U. -17 national team .

In the same year Weidenfeller played five out of six tournament games at the U-17 World Cup in Egypt and finished fourth with the German team. He was named to the All-Star Team as the tournament's best goalkeeper . His last international match for this national team he played on November 25, 1997 in Gera in a 1-1 draw against France. He also played three internationals for the U-21 national team between 1999 and 2001 and in 2005, having recently been a regular goalkeeper at Borussia Dortmund, at the age of 25, he played an international match for the Perspektiven team 2006 .

In the following years there was no nomination for the senior national team until national coach Joachim Löw Weidenfeller on November 8, 2013, due to his strong performance at international level in the Champions League, now 33 years old, shortly before the upcoming World Cup for the first time the German national team nominated. After a game on the bench against Italy , he made his full-time debut on November 19, 2013 in a 1-0 win over England at Wembley Stadium . At 33 years and 105 days, he replaced Toni Turek as the oldest goalkeeper on his debut and is the sixth oldest national player on his debut. He then took part in the 2014 World Cup with the national team and played two games in preparation. At the tournament in Brazil he acted alongside Ron-Robert Zieler as an unused substitute goalkeeper behind Manuel Neuer and became world champion with the team. His fifth and last international match was in June 2015 from an EM qualifying match against Gibraltar , his only competitive appearance for the DFB-Elf.

Others

Since 2018 he has been an expert for RTL in the games of the UEFA Europa League .

On January 1, 2020, he had a guest appearance on the television program Traumschiff , in which he played a goalkeeper in a charity goal shoot.

Achievements and Awards

Weidenfeller and the German team at the handover of the World Cup 2014

successes

National team

Borussia Dortmund

Awards

Web links

Commons : Roman Weidenfeller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c faz.net: Eindhoven instead of Eisbachtal , March 9, 2001
  3. ↑ [1] , www.flw24.de of November 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Tobias Wilhelm: Hope for divine assistance , Paulinus, July 3, 2014
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Roman Weidenfeller - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ [2] Spiegel Online: Substitute keeper keeps Lautern's chance for the semi-finals
  7. ↑ sport.ard.de: DFB sports court condemns Weidenfeller ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Coming out of footballers: "The fan curve is not the problem" - Spiegel Online , January 9, 2014
  9. ↑ Insult: Weidenfeller banned for three games. In: Spiegel Online . August 23, 2007, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Kicker online on December 22, 2007: "Weidenfeller operates", accessed on December 22, 2007
  11. ↑ http://www.bvb.de/?%9F%2Ak%97%84%ECRm%E3%8D%99
  12. ↑ http://www.n-tv.de/sport/fussball/Weidenfeller-frustriert-von-Loew-article4108106.html
  13. ↑ sport1.de "World goalkeeper on the march" accessed on June 1, 2013
  14. ↑ www.welt.de from August 14, 2015
  15. ↑ 2: 0 in Darmstadt - Ramos and Durm meet ( memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Borussia Dortmund website, accessed on March 4, 2016
  16. ↑ Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co KGaA: With Weidenfeller until 2018. Accessed on May 9, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Marcus Bark: BVB defeat against Mainz: Roman saves the mood . In: Spiegel Online . May 5, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 5, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Beyond the summer: Weidenfeller will remain with BVB . In: Kicker . April 10, 2018 ( kicker.de [accessed May 5, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Adrenalin trip to Roman Weidenfeller's farewell game , BVB.de, accessed on June 17, 2018
  20. ↑ Federal coach Löw appoints BVB goalkeeper Weidenfeller for the first time ( memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, November 8, 2013, accessed on November 8, 2013
  21. ↑ Debutants: Weidenfeller's oldest goalkeeper ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Roman Weidenfeller - International Appearances . RSSSF . August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 24, 2018.
  23. ↑ RTL Expert , report on ip.de, accessed on February 26, 2020
  24. ^ Posse about the Supercup
  25. ↑ Fußballkultur.org ( Memento from April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Weidenfeller, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Diez , Germany