Clemens Fritz

Clemens Fritz in 2009

Clemens Fritz ( born December 7, 1980 in Erfurt ) is a German football player.

Career

Association

He started in 1987 in the youth of Rot-Weiß Erfurt and in 1997 for two years at that VfB Leipzig. Due to the financial distress of Rot-Weiß Erfurt came the move to Leipzig. As the Leipzig themselves were in a financial emergency, use the Erfurt the opportunity to Clemens Fritz retrieve. Fritz immediately made ​​the jump to the regional team, where he increasingly became a service provider.

After he scored ten goals in the 2000 /01 season in the Regionalliga Süd for the Erfurt in 32 games, Fritz moved together with his friend Marco Engelhardt to the second division promoted Karlsruher SC, where both fast regulars were also. In 2003, the two parted ways because Fritz moved to Bundesliga Bayer 04 Leverkusen. There he was on 9 November 2003, his Bundesliga debut. On July 24, 2004, Fritz broke out in a test match fibula. The injury took various operations carried out so that Fritz in the entire 2004/ 05 could not deny Bundesliga match; only on March 9, 2005, he came in the Champions League game against Liverpool for almost 40 minutes to use. In August 2005, Fritz returned to the regular point game mode.

For the season 2006/ 07 he moved to Werder Bremen, where he initially wrote a contract until 2009. There, he pushed on the right side of defense immediately took in the preseason usually set Patrick Owomoyela and has since been a regular place in the starting eleven. Since its Leverkusen time Fritz plays at the position of right-back after it has been used at the beginning of his career in Erfurt and Karlsruhe as a striker. On 24 October 2008 he extended his contract until 2012. At the start of the 2011/12 season he was the successor of Per Mertesacker as captain at Werder Bremen. In addition, he was occasionally called up from this season as a right midfielder.

On January 28, 2012 Clemens Fritz played in the home game against his former club Bayer 04 Leverkusen his 200th Bundesliga game and on 19 April 2012, he extended his contract at Werder until 2014.

Early 2014 he announced to want to end his career in the summer of 2015.

National

Clemens Fritz was first nominated in Rostock on 29 September 2006 by Germany coach Joachim Loew for the national team friendly match against Georgia on October 7 and arrived there on his international debut. After a convincing game on the right side of defense Fritz was allowed in the following European Championship qualifying matches on the pitch for the national team. On June 2, 2007 Fritz finally succeeded against San Marino his first international goal. In 2008 he was admitted to the German squad for the 2008 European Football Championship and was one of the three group matches each for starting, where he was also used as a right midfielder.

Achievements

  • DFL - League Cup winner in 2006 with Werder Bremen
  • Vice European Champion 2008 with the German national team in Austria and Switzerland
  • UEFA Cup final in 2009 with Werder Bremen
  • DFB Cup winner in 2009 with Werder Bremen
  • DFB Cup finalist in 2010 with Werder Bremen
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