Simon Rolfes

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Simon Rolfes
Simon Rolfes 2019.jpg
Simon Rolfes, 2019
Personnel
birthday January 21, 1982
place of birth Ibbenbueren ,  Germany
size 191 cm
position Defensive Midfield
Juniors
Years station
1986-1999 Do the warrior
1999-2000 Werder Bremen
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2004 Werder Bremen amateurs 100 (18)
2000-2004 Werder Bremen 0 0(0)
2003 →  SSV Reutlingen 05  (loan) 13 0(0)
2004-2005 Alemannia Aachen 28 0(3)
2005-2015 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 288 (41)
2010 Bayer 04 Leverkusen II 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Germany U-18 8 0(1)
Germany U-20 5 0(0)
2002 Germany U-21 1 0(0)
2004-2005 Team 2006 3 0(0)
2007-2011 Germany 26 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Simon Rolfes (born January 21, 1982 in Ibbenbüren ) is a former German soccer player and today's sports official . He comes from the youth of Werder Bremen and was active as a defensive midfielder for Bayer 04 Leverkusen for ten years from 2005 to 2015 after the stopover at Alemannia Aachen . From 2007 to 2011 he was a German national player and became vice European champion in 2008 .

Rolfes worked from July to November 2018 as Head of Youth and Development in the administration of Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH. Since December 1st of that year he has been in charge of the Sport Department .

Life

Simon Rolfes was born as the youngest of four sons to a teacher couple. In his home town of Recke he first attended the Overberg elementary school and then the Fürstenberg high school. He passed his Abitur at the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium in Bremen . Rolfes has been married since 2009 and has three daughters.

Career as a player

society

In 1986, Rolfes began to play football for the Westphalian club TuS Recke . In 1999 he moved to Werder Bremen's A youth team . In 2001, Rolfes was named the best player of the tournament at the Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup . He quickly rose through the U-18 selection and the amateur team to the Werder professional team. There he could not prevail and was loaned in January 2003 for the second half of the season to the then second division SSV Reutlingen 05 , for which he played 13 games. In the 2003/04 season he returned to Bremen and was a member of the team squad German champion and DFB Cup winner , but without having been used in the first team. In the Bremen regional league team he had played 100 games and scored 18 goals. The fact that Rolfes could not assert himself at Bremen was explained later by the speed of his advance: "I was too dogged and impatient."

The consequence was his move in 2004 to the second division Alemannia Aachen . During his time at Alemannia, he improved his physical toughness by completing extra shifts with the 400-meter runners Lars Figura and Jens Dautzenberg . In Aachen he quickly became a regular player and scored three goals in 28 second division games. The club was considered a potential climber, but ended the 2004/05 season seven points behind third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt in sixth place. Aachen qualified for participation in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup through the DFB Cup competition ; there they survived the group stage and were only eliminated in the second round.

Simon-Rolfes, 2014

For the 2005/06 season , Rolfes moved to Bayer 04 Leverkusen . He fought for a regular place in the defensive midfield under the coach Michael Skibbe , who was hired in October 2005 . In both the 2006/07 season and the 2007/08 season he was the only Leverkusen player to play all 34 Bundesliga games. With eight goals, he was also the team's most successful midfielder. From the beginning of the 2008/09 season until the end of his career he was team captain of the Leverkusen team. On May 17, 2008, he played his 100th Bundesliga game in a Bayer jersey. In the following season, Rolfes led the Bayer team in the DFB Cup to the final, which they lost to Werder Bremen, before extending his contract prematurely by three years until 2013 in May 2009. In the steady first four years in Leverkusen, he only missed three season games. Then came the "epidemic year" with the 2009/10 season. A torn inner ligament in his knee was followed by other problems including cartilage damage, so that he could not play a large part of the first half of the season and almost the entire second half of the season. In the following season he painstakingly re-established the connection to the regular eleven, but it took until matchday 9 when he was back on the starting line-up for the first time. In the second half of the season he was one of the seeded players again and won the runner-up with the team in 2010/11 - his greatest success wearing the Bayer Leverkusen jersey.

At the end of the 2012/13 season, he extended his contract to June 30, 2015. In December 2014, he announced that he would not extend his expiring contract and would end his career. He declared that after his retirement he wanted to work as a career manager for athletes in his own company.

On May 16, 2015, Rolfes' last mandatory home game for Bayer Leverkusen, the club prepared him and Stefan Reinartz , who was leaving the club for Eintracht Frankfurt , an official farewell to the fans in the stadium before the game against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . The club made him the honorary captain of Bayer Leverkusen. After Ulf Kirsten , Carsten Ramelow and Bernd Schneider, Rolfes is the fourth player to be awarded this honorary title. A week later, on May 23, Rolfes finally played his last game as a professional footballer at the away game in Frankfurt am Main , where he came on for Tin Jedvaj in the 87th minute .

National team

Rolfes in national dress (2011)

Rolfes' national team career began in the junior teams. He completed eight games for the U-18 (one goal), five games for the U-20 and one game for the U-21 selection team. He also played three times for the team in 2006 . On March 28, 2007 he was used by national coach Joachim Loew in the game against Denmark for the first time in the senior national team .

Rolfes was appointed to the provisional squad for the EM 2008 on May 16, 2008 . He made his first appearance at the tournament on June 19, 2008 in the quarter-finals against Portugal, when he replaced the injured Torsten Frings . In the World Cup qualifier in Liechtenstein on September 6, 2008, he scored his first international goal to make it 3-0. Rolfes had to cancel his participation in the 2010 World Cup due to a knee injury. After his recovery he was still part of the DFB squad, but missed the nomination for the EM 2012 . Löw found his performance in the previous season to be insufficient. After that, he was not called back to the national team.

After the active career

Simon Rolfes, 2016

From summer 2015 to mid-2018, Rolfes worked as a football expert for ZDF .

At the beginning of the 2017/18 football season, Rolfes and his business partner Markus Elsässer took over the management of GoalControl .

In mid-2018, Rolfes was hired by Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH as Head of Youth and Development . On December 1 of that year, he internally switched to the position of sports director. Jonas Boldt , who had taken on these tasks since July of that year, stood by Rolfes in an advisory capacity until May 2019.

Union activity

During his active career, Rolfes was a representative of the Bundesliga on the players' council of the Association of Contract Football Players (VdV).

successes

National team

societies

Werder Bremen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Web links

Commons : Simon Rolfes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simon Rolfes becomes sports director - Jonas Boldt leaves Bayer 04 in the summer ; bayer04.de, published and accessed on November 24, 2018
  2. ↑ Rolfes: It was unforgettable
  3. ↑ ssv-news.de: Rolfes is from Bremen ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 20, 2002  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ssv-news.de
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Simon Rolfes - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kilchenstein, Thomas (2007): Mr. Reliable: Leverkusen's midfielder Simon Rolfes never gives up. In: Frankfurter Rundschau February 14, 2007 (accessed: November 16, 2007) ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.simon-rolfes.de
  6. ↑ a b Hellmann, Frank (2007): The Juggler. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, No. 267, November 16, 2007, p. 27
  7. ↑ www.kicker.de: Rolfes is the captain (August 1st, 2008)
  8. ↑ Simon Rolfes extends contract by two years ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . bayer04.de. March 7, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayer04.de
  9. ↑ Rolfes ends his career at the end of the season ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . bayer04.de. December 6, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayer04.de
  10. ↑ Former international Rolfes retires after the season, article from December 7, 2014, accessed on April 25, 2015
  11. ↑ a b Successful farewell for Simon and Stefan ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; bayer04.de, May 17, 2015, accessed on August 12, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bayer04.de
  12. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Simon Rolfes - International Appearances . RSSSF . March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  13. ↑ Final: World Cup out for Rolfes report from May 4, 2010 on sport1.de
  14. ↑ Löw removes Rolfes from the EM team , RP Online, May 7, 2012
  15. ↑ http://www.zdfsport.de/simon-rolfes-experte-zdf-sportreportage-39604314.html
  16. ↑ http://www.zdfsport.de/holger-stanislawski-simon-rolfes-hanno-balitsch-zdf-experten-fuer-sportreportage-39650748.html
  17. ↑ https://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/sport/simon-rolfes-kehrt-zu-bayer-leverkusen-zurueck_aid-24548663
  18. ↑ https://www.goalcontrol.de/de/news/2017/08/21/simon-rolfes-%C3%BCbernnahm-goalcontrol-und-baut-torlinientechnik-engagement-aus/ accessed on August 26, 2017
  19. ↑ Note in: RevierSport 38/2013, p. 12.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rolfes was not used in any game in this competition, but was part of the squad in two games.
  2. ↑ Rolfes was not used in any game in this competition, but was part of the squad in the final.
personal data
SURNAME Rolfes, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibbenbueren , Germany