Sascha Bigalke

Bigalke (2009)

Sascha Bigalke ( born January 8, 1990 in Berlin ) is a German football player.

Association

Sascha Bigalke began his footballing career in the youth department of the Reinickendorfer foxes, and moved with his father, a youth coach to Hertha BSC. There he went through all the junior teams and played until the second half of the 2007/08 season in the A- junior Bundesliga, before he received a professional contract, but first in the Oberliga Nord / Nordost for the second team of Hertha BSC took.

To his competitive debut for the first team of Hertha Bigalke came qualify for the UEFA Cup 2008/ 09 against Nistru Otaci in the first round. About a year later he made his professional debut in the UEFA Europa League 2009/10 against SC Heerenveen in the grid. On 21 November 2009 Bigalke debut in the 1-1 draw at VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga; This was also his only league commitment to the professional team of Hertha. In July 2011 he transferred free transfer to third division side SpVgg Unterhaching.

On 31 August 2012, the second division side FC Cologne 1 Bigalke, who signed a three year contract until 30 June 2015 undertook. His first goal he scored in the 3-2 win against SSV Jahn Regensburg on 20 October 2012. On June 22, 2013 he suffered in a friendly against Sportfreunde Troisdorf a torn ACL and tear of the medial meniscus in his right knee. He is expected to be operational again until spring 2014.

National

Bigalke has been one of the U-16 squad regularly for the DFB youth teams. With the U- 17 team, he participated in the U-17 European Championship in 2007 and the U-17 World Cup 2007. At the World Cup he made with Toni Kroos, Dennis Dowidat and Richard Sukuta -Pasu the offensive of the German team that reached the third place after a 2-1 win over Ghana. Bigalke is highlighted as one of five outstanding players of the German team in the official report and described as " dribbling midfielder with good technique and great effort, good passing game, dangerous on the flanks ."