Ben Zolinski

Ben Zolinski (born 3 May 1992, Berlin ) is a German football player who can be used as rechtsfüßiger defensive player in both the outer defense as well as on the six position. His career began Zolinski at Hansa Rostock in the 3rd league.

Career

Youth in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern

Although Zolinski was born in Berlin, he learned to play football from 1997 in Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, where he first SV Möllenhagen / Bocksee in the district joined Müritz and later to neighboring 1 FC Neubrandenburg changed 04. In August 2006 Zolinski arrived yet as C -teenager to FC Hansa Rostock, whose youth teams he should go through in the next five years. This Zolinski had already made in Neubrandenburg the German Football Association attention to himself, so that he was invited to various courses of the U-15 national team, among others, in September 2006, but played no inserts for the various youth teams of the Football Association.

For Rostock played Zolinski from 2007 in the U-17 League, founded in the same year ( Youth B ), in which he 2007/ 08 score a goal in their first match time in a total of 21 appearances and so to reach this season ranked fifth the final table helped. In the following season 2008/ 09 Zolinski ran 25 times for Hansa on in the U-17 league, where he contributed with a goal for now achieved fourth place. Through its services to Rostock U- 17, Zolinski but he can also recommend for the next higher year of the Hanseatic League, for which he in 2008 / 09, the U-19 League ( A- Youth) completed two missions in the season.

Below belonged Zolinski also according to the age- served by Michael Hartmann U-19. With 23 completed missions in the U-19 Bundesliga he was doing to the service providers of the Rostock team who first reached the championship of their league season this season and thus qualified for the final round of the German youth championship. In this Zolinski denied, although both semi-final matches against 1 FSV Mainz 05 in the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in which Hansa was a 1-0 win for the first time A German Youth Champion, Zolinski was lacking due to the semi-final received two yellow cards.

2010/11 played Zolinski initially continue for Hansas A youth in the U-19 league, but was unable to build on the success of last year under coach Roland Kroos. Nevertheless, Zolinski recommended with good performances for the men's teams of FC Hansa, so that he made his debut on 5 September 2010 for Rostock's reserve team in the Oberliga Nordost fünftklassigen. First, however, this should be the only use for the reserve team coached by Axel Rietentiet stay, which was withdrawn only start of the season due to financial motivations from the fourth division Regionalliga in the league. Instead, Zolinski played in the spring of 2011, the focus of the professional team that was relegated for the first time in the previous year from the 2nd Bundesliga and now participated as a third division for the first time at the National Cup Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, which they eventually won. Here, coach Peter Vollmann on the way to winning the title also Zolinski a by einwechselte this on 23 February 2011 in the second round against the Rostock FC. Additional inserts for Rostock men's teams Zolinski but did not and instead was re-inserted into the U-19, for which he finally scored a goal in 18 missions in league play. In addition, the team reached the final of the DFB Junior Club Cup 2010/11, in which Zolinski scored the intermediate 1-1 draw against SC Freiburg, but ultimately lost the penalty shootout.

Beginnings in Rostock and Jena

Although Rostock professional team placed among other things, with Pelle Jensen and Tom Weiland also increasingly on the players in the A- youth champion team, it initially failed Zolinksi to recommend themselves equally to an acquisition in the professional squad, the the chances of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga had reached the summer of 2011. Instead, he was awarded for the 2011/ 12 to the third division Carl Zeiss Jena. In this, however, Zolinski could not prevail and has only been used in the Jena reserve team, which took as well Rostock second team in the season 2011/ 12 in the Oberliga Nordost. Therefore, he returned in January 2012 back to Rostock, where he continued to play the next half- year for the reserve team coached by Axel Rietentiet in the big leagues. Although Zolinski reached with the team the championship of their season, but this was the rise in the Regional due to the simultaneous descent of the second division team finally denied.

For the third league match 2012/13 season which is now acting as a coach Wolfgang Wolf Zolinski convened still in the first team, making this the first time, ran aground in the 3rd League July 21, 2012 by Substitutes. This should, however, remain Zolinskis only use under coach Wolf, as he was first called up only in the reserve team. It was not until November 2012 Zolinski was considered again in the professional team whose coach office was now filled by Marc Fascher; in the spring of 2013 he found himself again at the games but the reserve team again. At season's end, it then managed Zolinski however, strongly recommended for Rostock root formation, so that he stood last five season game days each in the starting lineup and had thus share in the relegation eventually reached twelfth of the final table. Although he had thus recommended for an extension of his end of the season expiring contract, he is not extension offer was made for economic reasons.