Sebastian Polter

Sebastian Polter
with ball, in a game scene 2015
Personnel
birthday	April 1, 1991
place of birth	Wilhelmshaven ,  Germany
size	191 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1994-2003	Heidmühler FC
2003-2004	SV Wilhelmshaven
2004-2005	SV Werder Bremen
2005-2006	SV Wilhelmshaven
2006-2007	Eintracht Braunschweig
2007-2010	VfL Wolfsburg
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008–2012	VfL Wolfsburg II	68 (19)
2011-2013	VfL Wolfsburg	12 0(2)
2012-2013	→  1. FC Nürnberg  (loan)	26 0(5)
2013	→  1. FC Nürnberg II  (loan)	2 0(1)
2013-2014	1. FSV Mainz 05 II	8 0(3)
2013-2015	1. FSV Mainz 05	13 0(0)
2014-2015	→  1. FC Union Berlin  (loan)	29 (14)
2015-2017	Queens Park Rangers	51 (10)
2017-2020	1. FC Union Berlin	57 (23)
2020–	Fortuna Sittard	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	Germany U15
	Germany U16
2008-2009	Germany U18	6 0(3)
2012	Germany U20	1 0(2)
2012-2013	Germany U21	11 0(5)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 17, 2020

Sebastian Polter (born April 1, 1991 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a German football player . He has been under contract with the Dutch first division club Fortuna Sittard since August 2020 . In addition, the striker was active for German youth national teams.

Career

societies

Polter began playing football as a goalkeeper for Heidmühler FC , a district club in Schortens . There he drew national attention and was appointed to the selection team of the Lower Saxony Football Association in 2002 . At the age of twelve he returned to his hometown, where he was discovered by the talent scouts of SV Werder Bremen and brought to their youth a year later. Although he was invited to the youth team of the DFB, he did not strive for a future as a goalkeeper, but wanted to prove himself as a striker. Since this was not possible for him in Bremen, he moved to SV Wilhelmshaven , where he was able to use this opportunity. In the first game he scored all five goals for his team; he scored a total of 69 hits in one year. He was again included in the Lower Saxony selection, with which he became German champion in 2006, and played for the U15 selection of the DFB. A year later he played for Eintracht Braunschweig , where he became a U16 national player and in March 2007 received the DFB award as “Talent of the Month”.

In 2007, Polter finally came to VfL Wolfsburg . In the first year he was actually still intended for the B youth team, but at the turn of the year he was promoted to the U19 age group as the youngest player. With the team he reached the final of the German A-Youth Championship, which was lost to SC Freiburg . In the following two years he was a permanent member of the U19 team and also played regularly in the U23 in the Regionalliga Nord . For the 2009/10 season Polter received a professional contract running until June 30, 2012, but without being used in the professional team that had become German champions the year before. A metatarsal fracture also contributed to this, which had put him out of action for a long time. In the following year, his first senior year, he continued to collect match practice in the U23. In 25 games he scored eleven goals and continued to approach the professional team. His contract period was extended to June 30, 2014 before the 2011/12 season .

On December 3, 2011, Polter was in the 18-man squad for a Bundesliga game for the first time, but was not used. He made his Bundesliga debut in the 4-1 defeat against SV Werder Bremen on December 10, 2011, when he came on after the half-time break. In total, he was used twelve times in his debut year as a professional. For the 2012/13 season he switched to 1. FC Nürnberg on loan for a year in order to get regular match practice in the Bundesliga. In the summer break of 2013 he went to 1. FSV Mainz 05 . On 30 August 2014 he was to the end of the season 2014/15 in the 2. Bundesliga at 1. FC Union Berlin on loan. For the 2015/16 season , Polter was signed by the English second division side Queens Park Rangers , for whom he scored ten goals in 51 games.

On January 10, 2017, Polter rejoined 1. FC Union Berlin, this time receiving a contract dated June 30, 2020. In his first season the striker was a regular player and was able to contribute twelve goals and four assists in 26 competitive games; from March 2018 he was out until September due to an Achilles tendon tear. After his return, Polter scored the goal of the 2-0 final score with an overhead kick on the 7th matchday in the win against Holstein Kiel . This hit was voted Goal of the Month for September 2018. At the end of the 2018/19 season , he and the team were promoted to the Bundesliga after a relegation success via VfB Stuttgart . In the top German league, the attacker was no longer used regularly, as head coach Urs Fischer often relied on Sebastian Andersson . By the end of May Polter had thirteen Bundesliga games (two goals and assists each) before he was suspended. The reason for this was "unsolidarity" on the part of the player in view of the COVID-19 pandemic . His contract, which expired in summer 2020, was therefore no longer extended by the club and Polter is only allowed to participate in team training.

For the 2020/21 season , Polter signed a two-year contract with the Dutch first division club Fortuna Sittard .

National team

Polter was discovered for the national junior selection of the DFB and played for the U15 and U16 national teams . After that, however, it was not until the U18 national team that he was called up again. There he scored three goals in six international matches. In February 2012 he made his debut in the U20 national team in a friendly against Italy, which was lost 4-3 and in which he scored two goals . In August 2012, he made his debut in the U21 national team in a 6-1 win against the national team of Argentina. With the DFB selection, he qualified for the 2013 European Championship .

Web links

• Sebastian Polter in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sebastian Polter in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Sebastian Polter in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Sebastian Polter in the database of the German Football Association
• Sebastian Polter on the website of 1. FC Union Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ex-goalkeeper shines as a striker ), Nordwest-Zeitung, January 25, 2012
2. ↑ Dieter Eilts has awarded "Talent of the Month" , DFB, April 30, 2007
3. ↑ Scouts discover Wilhelmshavener Talents ( Memento from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Cäcilienschule / Wilhelmshavener Zeitung, March 28, 2008
4. ^ VfL Wolfsburg press service: Professional contracts for five U23 players, Altiparmak comes from Hertha 03 Zehlendorf
5. ↑ VfL Wolfsburg press service: Sebastian Polter also extends it until 2014
6. ↑ fcn.de: Reinforcements for the attack , May 23, 2012
7. ↑ http://www.mainz05.de/mainz05/profis/team.html#!profis/team/transfers.html
8. ^ Polter to Union Berlin
9. ↑ Polter goes to England mainz05.de, accessed on July 2, 2015
10. ↑ QPR Sign German Striker Sebastian Polter qpr.co.uk, accessed on March 15, 2016 (English)
11. ↑ Back for Good: 1. FC Union Berlin starts the second half of the season with Sebastian Polter. In: www.fc-union-berlin.de. 1. FC Union Berlin, January 10, 2017, accessed on January 10, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Polter scores goal of the month September on sportschau.de, accessed on October 28, 2018.
13. ↑ Union does without Sebastian Polter with immediate effect. In: www.fc-union-berlin.de. Retrieved May 28, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Fortuna Sittard and Sebastian Polter vinden elkaar in tweejarig contract. In: fortunasittard.nl. August 17, 2020, accessed August 17, 2020 (Dutch).