Sidney Sam

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Sidney Sam
Sidney Sam.jpg
Sidney Sam (2010)
Personnel
birthday January 31, 1988
place of birth Kiel ,  Germany
size 174 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
1995-2001 TuS Mettenhof
2001-2002 FC Kilia Kiel
2002-2004 Holstein Kiel
2004-2007 Hamburger SV
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2008 Hamburger SV II 47 0(8)
2007-2010 Hamburger SV 4 0(0)
2008-2010 →  1. FC Kaiserslautern  (loan) 59 (14)
2010-2014 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 92 (24)
2014-2017 FC Schalke 04 13 0(0)
2015-2017 FC Schalke 04 II 12 0(3)
2017 →  SV Darmstadt 98  (loan) 13 0(2)
2017-2019 VfL Bochum 42 0(2)
2019-2020 SCR Altach 21 0(6)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2007 Germany U19 9 0(2)
2007-2008 Germany U20 4 0(0)
2009-2010 Germany U21 7 0(1)
2013 Germany 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 4, 2020

Sidney Sam (born January 31, 1988 in Kiel ) is a German football player on the position of an offensive midfielder .

Career

society

Sidney Sam began his career at TuS Mettenhof , a district club in Kiel, and joined Kiel 's largest football club Holstein via FC Kilia Kiel . For this he was active in the youth from 2002 to 2004, until talent scouts of the Hamburger SV noticed him. He then moved to the HSV's youth performance center in 2004 and initially became a fixture in its regional league team. For the 2007/08 season Sam received a professional contract and made his debut on October 20, 2007 (10th matchday) in a 4-1 win at home against VfB Stuttgart . At the end of his first professional season he came to four short assignments.

After the first day of the 2008/09 season he was loaned to the second division club 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He came there on 26 season appearances, in which he scored four goals, where he was often substituted on or off. In the summer of 2009 the loan contract was extended to June 2010. In his second season for Kaiserslautern he matured into a regular player and with ten goals and seven assists he was jointly responsible for the fact that the Palatinate team were second division champions at the end of the season and were promoted to the Bundesliga.

For the 2010/11 season he moved to league competitor Bayer 04 Leverkusen , with whom he signed a contract dated 2015. One of his two goals against his former club 1. FC Kaiserslautern on November 7, 2010, a volley from around 20 meters, was voted goal of the month in November 2010. With seven goals in 30 games, he contributed to winning the runner-up in his first year in Leverkusen.

Sam in training with FC Schalke 04 (2015)

For the 2014/15 season , Sam moved to FC Schalke 04 . He received a contract until June 30, 2018. Among the coaches Jens Keller and Roberto Di Matteo , Sam could not prevail - also due to injuries. After eleven Bundesliga, three Champions League and one cup appearances - as well as an appearance for the second team in the fourth-class Regionalliga West - without a goal of his own, Sam was after the 2-0 defeat at 1. FC Köln on matchday 32, with which he was not in the squad, however, together with Kevin-Prince Boateng , since according to sports director Horst Heldt a “relationship of trust no longer exists” and one is not convinced that the players “can still help” in the last two games to qualify at least for the Europa League after the worst second half of the season in 22 years .

Also in the 2015/16 season Sam should not play a role under the new coach André Breitenreiter . Due to increased kidney values, which had been determined during the internal part of the medical check, a loan deal with Eintracht Frankfurt collapsed at the beginning of July 2015 . After a conversation with Breitenreiter, Sam finally got back into team training at FC Schalke 04 on July 23, 2015. However, he didn't get his first squad nomination until December 10, 2015, when he was in the starting line-up on the last match day of the Europa League group stage in a 4-0 away win at Asteras Tripoli . Until then, Sam only played twice (one goal) in the second team. For the second half of 2016/17 he was awarded to SV Darmstadt 98 .

On August 31, 2017, Sam moved to VfL Bochum in the 2nd Bundesliga . The offensive player's contract, which expired at the end of the second division season 2018/19 , was not extended in the spring.

Sam then completed a five-week trial training session at RSC Anderlecht , but was not given a job. After more than three months without a club, he moved to the Austrian Bundesliga club SCR Altach in October 2019 , with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2020. For Altach he came to 21 appearances in the Bundesliga , in which he scored six goals, and one more use in the playoff. After his contract ended, he left Altach after the 2019/20 season.

National team

Sam was a junior national player and was used for the U19 national team in nine games and for the U20 in four games. On September 8, 2009 Sam made his debut in the European Championship qualifier against the Czech Republic in the U21 national team . On May 16, 2013 he was appointed by Joachim Löw for the international matches against Ecuador (May 29, 2013) and the USA (June 2, 2013). He made his A international debut on May 29, 2013 in a 4-2 win in the friendly against Ecuador in Boca Raton ( USA ); in the 69th minute he was substituted for André Schürrle . In the World Cup qualifier against the Faroe Islands on September 10, 2013, he was substituted on in the 84th minute.

successes

1. FC Kaiserslautern
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
  • German runner-up: 2011

Awards

Others

Sam's father is Nigerian , his mother German. His older brother Steve (* 1986) is also an active footballer and currently plays for Inter Türkspor Kiel in the Schleswig-Holstein Oberliga .

Sam has been married since 2012.

Web links

Commons : Sidney Sam  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ bayer04.de: Sidney Sam joins Bayer 04 ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ S04 signs national player Sidney Sam schalke04.de, accessed on January 8, 2014
  3. ↑ kicker online : Gerhardt relieved Cologne of all relegation worries , May 10, 2015, accessed on May 11, 2015.
  4. ↑ FC Schalke 04: Boateng and Sam released with immediate effect , May 11, 2015, accessed on May 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ FC Schalke 04: Horst Heldt on the release and suspension , May 11, 2015, accessed on May 11, 2015.
  6. ↑ derwesten.de: Order from Tönnies - Heldt should rebuild the Schalke team , April 12, 2015, accessed on May 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ kicker online: Breitenreiter: "I bring a philosophy" , June 15, 2015, accessed on June 15, 2015.
  8. ↑ kicker online: Trapp's million dollar contract for his birthday - Sam deal burst , July 7, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2015.
  9. ↑ FC Schalke 04: Andre Breitenreiter on an access and a returnee , July 22, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2015.
  10. ↑ kicker online: Sam: Premiere - and soon goodbye? , December 11, 2015, accessed December 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ FC Schalke 04: S04 gives Sidney Sam to Darmstadt 98 , January 14, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2017.
  12. ↑ FC Schalke 04: Sidney Sam changes to VfL Bochum , August 31, 2017, accessed on August 31, 2017.
  13. ↑ Farewell: 8 players, 1 trainer , vfl-bochum.de, accessed on May 17, 2019
  14. ↑ After five weeks of trial training: Sam does not receive a contract in Anderlecht , transfermarkt.de, accessed on July 19, 2019
  15. ↑ SCR Altach signs Sidney Sam at scra.at, on October 2, 2019, accessed on October 2, 2019
  16. ↑ dfb.de: National team squad for the international matches against Ecuador (May 29) and USA (June 2) ( Memento from February 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Sportschau: Goal of the Month November 2010
personal data
SURNAME Sam, Sidney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel , Germany