Florian Lechner
Florian Lechner ( born March 3, 1981 in Ellwangen ) is a German football player.
Amateur career
Lechner played in the youth for the SV Pfahlheim and the SVH Königsbronn, from where he moved to VfB Stuttgart 1996. The defender went through here the youth departments before he aufrückte in the amateur team in 2000. In the Regionalliga Süd, he completed 66 games for the Swabians, before he left the club after the 2003/ 04 season to St. Pauli. When former North regional league came Lechner as a regular player on 84 Regional operations until their second division promotion in the season 2006/07.
Professional career
For Lechner ascent marked the beginning of a long period of suffering that began with a complex fracture of the fibula in preparation for the 2007/08 season. " Be fixed with six normal and a long screw on the tibia and an additional metal plate " This had, as Lechner Hamburger Morgenpost reported. As usual, passed the inserted objects made of titanium - which Lechner was undoing. As a result of undiagnosed titanium allergy ignited the periosteum of the operated fibula, only five months later, the allergy was diagnosed and removed the screws and plates. Stress factors resulted in the connection to a pelvic tilt position and back problems. After he had thus missed the entire first second division season, Lechner sought a comeback to the first half of the next - and failed again. A heel spur - another consequence of the calf injury broken leg - pulled again six months after break up.
On 8 February 2009, after 18 months of injury and at the age of 27 years Florian Lechner received his first professional use, when he came on in the 42nd minute when match of FC St. Pauli against SpVgg Greuther Fürth. In the rest of the season he suffered additional nine starts, he denied all in the starting lineup. In the following season 2009/10 the Kiez kickers succeeded in Erstligaaufstieg to the Lechner contributed 14 inserts. In the first division followed by another ten professional applications.
On 11 May 2011, FC St. Pauli was known for his Erstligaabstieg that Lechner's expiring contract would not be renewed. After also the longtime teammates and - as Lechner - fan favorite Marcel Eger had to leave the club, but was omitted from club page on a farewell match, organized the two -back together with her former teammate Marvin Brown ado even one. 4500 fans watched the spectacle ultimately, hundreds of partying until the wee hours.
After an already battered than perfect Announced changes to Hajduk Split and Lechner waived for sporting reasons for a change to the interested Indonesian club PSM Makassar, the defender for the season 2011/12 was taken from Karlsruher SC under contract.
Florian Lechner went on March 14, 2012 in North America and moved to the U.S. Major League Soccer, where the New England Revolution, who received the award for the obligation of Lechner, announced the immediate obligation of Swabia.