Yannick Gerhardt

Yannick Gerhardt
Yannick Gerhardt (2014)
Personnel
birthday	March 13, 1994
place of birth	Würselen ,  Germany
size	184 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2003	SC Kreuzau
2003-2013	1. FC Cologne
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2014	1. FC Cologne II	13 (0)
2013-2016	1. FC Cologne	74 (6)
2016–	VfL Wolfsburg	86 (5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2012	Germany U-18	2 (1)
2012-2013	Germany U-19	13 (1)
2013-2014	Germany U-20	15 (1)
2015–	Germany U-21	17 (0)
2016–	Germany	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 1, 2020 2 As of June 30, 2017

Yannick Gerhardt (born March 13, 1994 in Würselen ) is a German soccer player . The midfielder is under contract with Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg .

Career

societies

After playing as a dangerous midfielder at 1. FC Köln in his youth, Gerhardt was accepted into the professional squad by new coach Peter Stöger for the 2013/14 season . On the first day of the season Gerhardt made his debut in the professional team in the away game against Dynamo Dresden (1: 1) in the starting line-up. He scored his first goal as a professional footballer on September 1, 2013 in a 4-1 win against Erzgebirge Aue in the second minute of the game. His contract with 1. FC Köln ran until June 30, 2018.

For the 2016/17 season , Gerhardt moved to VfL Wolfsburg . He made his Bundesliga debut for Wolves on August 27, 2016 in a 2-0 away win against FC Augsburg . Gerhardt scored his first Bundesliga goal for VfL on November 18, 2017 (12th matchday 17/18 ) with a 1-0 lead in a 3-1 home win against SC Freiburg .

National team

In 2012 Gerhardt made his debut in the German U-18 national team . He was then used in all junior selections. On November 15, 2016, Gerhardt made his only appearance in the German senior team in the game against Italy in Milan . At the U-21 European Championship 2017 in Poland, Gerhardt completed every game over the full distance and finally won the title with Germany.

successes

• U-21 European Champion : 2017
• German B youth champion: 2011
• DFB Junior Club Cup: 2013
• Second division champions and promotion to the Bundesliga : 2014

Awards

In 2013 Yannick Gerhardt received the Fritz Walter Medal in the U-19 age group in silver. In 2014 he and Inka Grings were voted “Cologne's Sportsman of the Year”. On May 22, 2017 he was elected Sportsman of the Year in the Düren district.

Others

Gerhardt attended the Stiftisches Gymnasium in Düren , where he graduated from high school in the summer of 2013. He lives in Kreuzau .

His younger sister Anna Gerhardt (* 1998) plays for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the women's Bundesliga and is a former junior national player .

Web links

Commons : Yannick Gerhardt  - Collection of Images

• Yannick Gerhardt in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Yannick Gerhardt in the weltfussball.de database
• Yannick Gerhardt in the database of kicker.de
• Yannick Gerhardt in the database of the German Football Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhardt takes off: Debut at the beginning? (kicker.de from July 18, 2013, accessed on July 24, 2013)
2. ↑ Kempe curious: Horn insert goes wrong (kicker.de, accessed on July 24, 2013)
3. ↑ "The Hammer" Yeah, yeah, Yannick! Gerhardt in FC-Glück (express.de from September 2, 2013, accessed on September 2, 2013)
4. ↑ Gerhardt signs new contract report on kicker.de from January 31, 2014, accessed on January 31, 2014
5. ↑ Gerhardt signs with VfL , on kicker.de, accessed on May 27, 2016.
6. ^ Dfb.de: Fritz Walter Medal: Ginter again best of the year
7. ↑ https://www.kreis-dueren.de/aktuelles/index.php?pm=/aktuelles/presse/sport/155010100000046362.php
8. ↑ Yannick Gerhardt wins the DFB-Junioren-Vereinspokal (stiftisches.de from June 5, 2013, accessed on September 3, 2013)
9. ↑ https://www.kreis-dueren.de/aktuelles/index.php?pm=/aktuelles/presse/sport/155010100000046362.php
10. ↑ Yannick and Anna. The Gerhardts with the billy goat gene (express.de from July 23, 2013, accessed on September 3, 2013)