Waldemar Anton

Waldemar Anton
Waldemar Anton (2016)
Personnel
birthday	July 20, 1996
place of birth	Olmaliq ,  Uzbekistan
size	189 cm
position	Central defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2008	Mühlenberger SV
2008-2015	Hannover 96
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2015-2016	Hanover 96 II	11 (1)
2015-2020	Hannover 96	130 (5)
2020–	VfB Stuttgart	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2016-2019	Germany U21	11 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 28, 2020 2 As of March 22, 2019

Waldemar Anton (born July 20, 1996 in Olmaliq , Uzbekistan , as Wladimir Anton ; Uzbek Valdemar Anton ) is a German football player . The central defender is under contract with VfB Stuttgart and is a former German U21 international.

Life

Anton was born in Olmaliq in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan to Russian-German parents. When Waldemar Anton was two years old, his family moved to Germany as a late repatriate and his first name was changed from Wladimir to Waldemar . In addition to German, he also speaks Russian .

Career

societies

At the age of seven, Anton began playing football for the Hanover district club Mühlenberger SV . In 2006 he was scouted by Hannover 96 and in 2008 moved to their youth department. In the 2014/15 season he was the captain of the A youth team of 96.

For the 2015/16 season, Anton moved up to the first team, but initially only played for the second team in the Regionalliga Nord . On September 20, 2015, he was in the Bundesliga team for the first time for the away game against FC Augsburg , but was not used. He made his debut on February 27, 2016 in a 2-1 away win against VfB Stuttgart , after being substituted on for Hiroshi Kiyotake in added time. On April 15, 2016, Anton scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2-0 home win against Borussia Mönchengladbach . At the end of the season he was relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga with the team . At the end of May 2016, Anton extended his long-term contract in Hanover. In the 2016/17 season he was promoted directly back to the Bundesliga with Hanover. In August 2018, Hanover coach André Breitenreiter announced that he would go into the 2018/19 season with 22-year-old Anton as the youngest Bundesliga captain to date. At the beginning of March 2019, 29-year-old Marvin Bakalorz was appointed the new captain by Thomas Doll , who took over the relegation-threatened team at the end of January 2019. Anton remained on the team council and felt the situation as a "relief".

On July 28, 2020, Anton moved to VfB Stuttgart and signed a contract with the Swabians that ran until the end of June 2024.

National team

Anton made his debut on September 2, 2016 in a 3-0 win in the friendly against Slovakia in the German U21 national team . In June 2017 , he won the U21 European Championship in Poland as part of the squad with the team .

Since Anton has not yet played for an senior national team, a change of association is still possible. He can basically choose between three national teams: Russia , since his parents and grandparents lived as Russian- Germans in the Soviet Union , Uzbekistan , his country of birth, and Germany , where he grew up since he was two. The Uzbek football association contacted him in 2017, but changing associations was out of the question for him. He is keeping the option with the Russian national team open, but the Russian Federation has not yet contacted him .

successes

Hannover 96

• Promotion to the Bundesliga : 2017

National team

• U21 European Champion : 2017

Individually

• Lower Saxony's footballer of the year : 2018

Web links

• Waldemar Anton in the database of weltfussball.de
• Waldemar Anton in the database of kicker.de
• Waldemar Anton in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Waldemar Anton in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Waldemar Anton ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the Hannover 96 club website, accessed on March 1, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} image : “I don't need an exit clause” , January 17, 2018
3. ^ ^{A b} Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung : "The trainer is very emotional" , July 13, 2016
4. ↑ Youngsters - Hannover 96: Many points for Anton . www.neuepresse.de. July 2, 2015. Archived from the original on July 4, 2015. Retrieved April 16, 2016.
5. ↑ Hannover 96 extended with Waldemar Anton to haz.de from May 25, 2016, accessed on May 25, 2016
6. ↑ Decided: Anton is the new captain, Esser is the regular keeper , hannover96.de, accessed on August 16, 2018
7. ↑ Doll makes Bakalorz captain , kicker.de, March 5, 2019, accessed on March 5, 2019.
8. ↑ VfB signs Waldemar Anton VfB Stuttgart July 28, 2020
9. ↑ New press : Anton wants to join the 96 team council , July 13, 2016
10. ↑ Sportbuzzer: "Maybe we'll soon be a top team" , September 1st, 2017