Christian Sauter

Christian Sauter ( born February 11, 1988 in Bad Saulgau ) is a German football player. Since January 2011, he plays for 1.FC Heidenheim.

Career

Christian Sauter was born in Swabia Bad Saulgau, six years old, he went to the neighboring village to FC Ostrach. At the age of 14 he was accepted into the youth of VfB Stuttgart. With the U-17 of the club he was German Junior B, with the U- 19 A- junior champion. Subsequently, he was also appointed to the DFB Junior selection and took the German U-19 national team at the 2007 U-19 European Championship in Austria in part, in which the DFB team reached the semi-finals. Later he also played in the German U- 20th

In last year 's youth he was also used in the U -23 VfB as a defender. He then moved to the 2007/08 season in the second team in the Regionalliga Süd. There he not only came once for the course and was reinstated only at the end of the first round. After the winter break, he was loaned out to league rivals SSV Reutlingen, where he played regularly.

After the end of the lending Sauter moved in July 2008 to SSV Ulm 1846, where he also was used in the Regionalliga Süd. He moved from defense into the defensive midfield and was two years a fixture in the team, but without playing a season consistently. In the third year he had played almost the entire first round, when the club filed for bankruptcy and withdrew from the league. So he moved to the winter break free transfer in the 3rd Liga 1 FC Heidenheim change, which had expressed interest in the midfielder for some time. His first non- league game for Heidenheim denied Christian Sauter on February 4, 2011, when he came off the bench in the match against 1.FC Saarbrücken in 78 minutes. In the course of the season he was able to establish itself in the professional league. In the 2011/12 season finally Sauter was a regular in the defensive midfield and reached Heidenheim 4th place in the league, the best result in their history in professional football.