Christian Pander

Christian Pander in August 2013

Christian Pander ( born August 28, 1983 in Münster ) is a German footballer who is 96 since the 2011/12 season at Hanover under contract.

Career

Club career

Youth

At the age of five years Pander began his Jugendkarierre at SC Nienberge. He was not initially fußballbegeisterst and went only because of the persistence of his mother continue to workout. By the 1990 World Cup in Italy Pander has discovered his interest in football. From then played Pander in the youth teams from SC Greven 09 and Preußen Münster. In 2001 he moved to the A- youth team of the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 From the season 2004/ 05 he was a member of the senior squad.

FC Schalke 04

From April 2005 to September 2006 fell from Pander due to the effects of a partial demolition of the medial collateral ligament and the posterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Although he could deny a single game through this injury, was extended his contract with Schalke during this time. From September 2006, he coached back together with professionals from FC Schalke 04 In the game against Bayern Munich on 5 November 2006, he ran for the first time at the Royal Blues and was able after three more games on November 18, 2006 game against energy Cottbus score his first goal after comeback.

Another injury suffered at the beginning of the season 2007 Pander. Shortly before the first game against Eintracht Frankfurt he suffered a torn ligament. He was represented by Dario Rodriguez. From the 26th Round Pander was back in the starting lineup.

In the 2008 /09 season, he also had to contend with many injury problems and therefore came only 17 league games, the last one on 10 May 2009 at Borussia Moenchengladbach.

As he continued to struggle in the 2009/10 season with injuries, he was able to complete a single league match this season. On April 6, 2010, he returned after eight months of injury lay back into the regular training of the new coach Felix Magath. After a further setback he gave on December 4, 2010 after 17- month injury lay his comeback in the Bundesliga with a 2-0 home win against FC Bayern Munich.

Hannover 96

His June 30, 2011 expiring contract with FC Schalke 04 was not extended. He left the club and signed on 19 June 2011, a one-year contract with the Premier League rivals Hannover 96 In January 2012, he extended his contract by three years until 30 June 2015.

National

Pander was nominated by national coach Juergen Klinsmann as a freshman for the Asian tour of the German national football team from 13 to 22 December 2004, but one he did not participate due to injury. His first unofficial international match he played on January 25, 2005 in Gelsenkirchen at a charity game against a league All-Star selection. Then he did not come because of serious injury to another long chance. On August 22, 2007 two and a half years after his first nomination, he celebrated against England with an insert from the beginning its official debut in the senior team. He succeeded in this case the 2-1 victory.

Achievements

• DFB Cup winner with FC Schalke 04: 2011

Others

Pander's hobby interests are among others in the hip- hop music. Together with a few friends from his hometown of Münster, he tries his hand at rapping and has a label together with DJ Dokker founded (Hood Production). Beginning of 2006 brought these first mixtape on the market, on which are to find some songs by Christian Pander aka " Funky Pee ".

His opened in 2008 in Münster sports shop was forced to close in September 2009 because of poor sales figures.