Sebastian Rudy

Sebastian Rudy
in the jersey of the national team (2017)
Personnel
birthday	February 28, 1990
place of birth	Villingen-Schwenningen ,  Germany
size	180 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	FC Dietingen
2001-2003	SV rooms
2003-2007	VfB Stuttgart
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2010	VfB Stuttgart II	37 (12)
2008-2010	VfB Stuttgart	15 0(0)
2010-2017	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	195 (11)
2017-2018	FC Bayern Munich	25 0(1)
2018-2019	FC Schalke 04	21 0(0)
2019-2020	→ TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (loan)	32 0(1)
2020–	FC Schalke 04	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2007	Germany U17	8 0(1)
2007-2008	Germany U18	7 0(0)
2008-2009	Germany U19	11 0(1)
2009-2013	Germany U21	23 0(5)
2011–	Germany	29 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 5, 2020 2 As of November 16, 2019

Sebastian Rudy (born February 28, 1990 in Villingen-Schwenningen ) is a German football player who is under contract with FC Schalke 04 and is a national player . His main position is in the central midfield, sometimes he is also used in the right midfield or as a right defender.

life and career

Rudy grew up as the second oldest of four siblings in a soccer-loving family in Dietingen in the Rottweil district . His father once played with Jürgen Klinsmann in the Württemberg team, while his three brothers and sister also played football at club level. His brother Florian , who was one year older, was also a professional soccer player in the 3rd division and ended his career in 2014. In addition to soccer, Sebastian Rudy also played ice hockey and tennis in his youth. He counts Bernd Schneider among his football idols.

Rudy passed his high school diploma in 2009 and started the dual vocational college “Sports Club Management” at the Cotta School in Stuttgart.

Sebastian Rudy married in May 2014. In March 2018 he became a father for the first time.

societies

Rudy started playing football at FC Dietingen , where his father trained him in the E-youth . He then played for two years for SV Zimmer in the same district before moving to VfB Stuttgart in 2003 with his brother Florian . While his brother left the club in 2004, Rudy completed his first games for the second team in the Regionalliga Süd at the end of 2007 at the age of 17 . In 2008 he was awarded the Fritz Walter Medal in silver in the U-18 age group. On July 30, 2008, now of legal age, he signed a licensed player contract dated until June 2012 with VfB Stuttgart. Although he belonged to the squad of the first team, initially played mostly in the second team.

From summer 2008 the second team of VfB played in the newly created 3rd division . Rudy came on August 2, 2008 in the 1: 3 defeat in the away game against 1. FC Union Berlin for the first time. Only eight days later, he completed the first round of the DFB Cup at 5: 0 win at FC Hansa Lueneburg his first competitive game for the first team of VfB Stuttgart, with whom he at 4. Round goalless draw at Carl-Benz-Stadion against the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim then made his Bundesliga debut. In the 2009/10 season he also played for the first time in the Champions League and scored a goal against the Glasgow Rangers .

After 15 Bundesliga games and eight in the European Cup, in which he scored two goals in two seasons, he moved to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim on August 23, 2010, after playing three point games for VfB Stuttgart at the beginning of the 2010/11 season . For Hoffenheim, he played 211 competitive games, scoring 12 goals and providing 32 assists.

In the summer of 2017, Rudy moved to Bayern Munich on a free transfer. In the 2017/18 season he played 35 competitive games for Bayern Munich, including 5 in the Champions League. He won the DFL Supercup 2017 , became German champion and Supercup winner 2018 .

Rudy during training on the grounds of FC Bayern Munich (2018)

In August 2018 Rudy moved to FC Schalke 04 . There he signed a contract until June 30, 2022 and was given the number 13 on his shirt. In Gelsenkirchen, Rudy was unable to prove himself as an urgently needed leader or as a regular player and was barely in class with the club at the end of the season.

The defensive player returned to his old club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim for one season on loan in the summer of 2019 . Back at his old club, Rudy immediately developed into an important leader and regular player again, making 35 competitive appearances. The season 2019/2020 ended the TSG Hoffenheim at the 6th place in the table, which to participate in the UEFA Europa League legitimate.

For the season 2020/21 returned Rudy to FC Schalke 04 back.

National team

Sebastian Rudy played for several German junior national teams. He finished third with Germany in the U-17 World Cup in 2007 . He then played for the U-18 and U-19 national teams and the U-21 national team .

Because after Bastian Schweinsteiger and Christian Träsch also Sami Khedira and Simon Rolfes were injured, Rudy was nominated for the first time on June 5, 2011 by national coach Joachim Löw for the EM qualifier of the senior national team against the selection of Azerbaijan on June 7, 2011, however, was not used. It was not until May 2014 that Rudy was reassigned to the national team after three years for the international test match against Poland . In this game, for which the majority of the regular players were unable to play shortly before the preparations for the 2014 World Cup, he made his debut on May 13, 2014 alongside eleven other players in a goalless draw in Hamburg. On September 2, Loew called him to the squad for the international test match against Argentina and for the European Championship qualifier against Scotland , in which he made his starting eleven, due to personal concerns in defensive midfield .

For the 2016 European Championship , Rudy was appointed to the expanded 27-player squad. However, he was not represented in the final squad. At the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia , Rudy only missed 16 minutes, started all games and won the tournament with the team.

At the 2018 World Cup , he broke his nose several times in the second group game against Sweden . Due to this injury and the subsequent operation, in which general anesthesia was used, Rudy was unable to play the third group game against South Korea , in which the German team lost 2-0 after a poor performance and was therefore eliminated from the tournament as the bottom of the group. According to national coach Joachim Löw , Rudy would have been deployed “two to three days early” after general anesthesia and breathing problems.

successes

societies

• German champion 2018
• DFL Supercup winner: 2017 , 2018

National team

• FIFA Confederations Cup : 2017

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Rudy  - Collection of Images

• Sebastian Rudy in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Sebastian Rudy in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sebastian Rudy in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Positions according to transfermarkt.de
2. ↑ Sebastian Rudy: Ascent at a rapid pace ( Memento from July 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Sebastian Rudy . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 22/2016 from May 31, 2016, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 20/2018 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
4. ↑ Great cinema: Sebastian Rudy got married ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ A good reason to miss an international match: FCB player in baby luck: Sebastian Rudy is a father . In: tz from March 23, 2018. Accessed March 31, 2018.
6. ↑ An interview with TSG player Sebastian Rudy. In: regenbogen.de , November 5, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2018.
7. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
8. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) on vfb.de from 23 August 2010
9. ↑ FC Bayern München AG (Ed.): Sebastian Rudy changes to FC Schalke 04. In: fcbayern.com. August 27, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 . 
10. ↑ FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 1904 eV (Ed.): S04 obliges national player Sebastian Rudy. In: FC Schalke August 04, 27, 2017, accessed on August 27, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Sebastian Rudy returns to TSG , achtzehn99.de, accessed on July 31, 2019
12. ↑ Training start under special conditions , schalke04.de, August 3, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020.
13. ↑ Khedira and Rolfes are canceled - Holtby and Rudy were nominated on dfb.de on June 5, 2011
14. ^ Nils Römeling: DFB: The squad for the Poland international match. fussballnationalmannschaft.net, May 8, 2014, accessed on May 8, 2014 . 
15. ↑ With eight debutants against Poland on DFB.de ( Memento from May 3, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
16. ↑ Löws EM selection , dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
17. ↑ The extended EM squad for the European Championship in France 2016 (June 10 to July 10) ( Memento from May 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 21, 2016
18. ↑ Löw deletes Bellarabi, Brandt, Reus and Rudy ( Memento from May 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), dfb.de, accessed on May 31, 2016
19. ↑ This is the German squad for the Confed Cup 2017. TZ.de, June 19, 2017, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Bierhoff on the drama against Sweden and German provocations , statement by Oliver Bierhoff in the ARD Sportschau video interview, accessed June 24, 2018
21. ↑ ^{a b} Löw on Rudy's state of health. SWR, June 26, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .