Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Maxim Choupo -Moting 2010

Jean -Eric Maxim Choupo -Moting ( born March 23, 1989 in Hamburg ) is a German - Cameroonian footballer who is 05 has a contract with 1 FSV Mainz.

Club career

Youth

The player started in the youth of the FC Teutonia 05 in Hamburg- Ottensen playing football. In 2000 he moved to Altona 93, with its e- youth he was Hamburger Cup winner. In 2003 he moved to FC St. Pauli.

Hamburger SV

As of 2004 stood Choupo -Moting at Hamburger SV under contract. During the winter break of the season 2006/ 07 he was appointed to the squad of the second team. On May 5, 2007 Choupo -Moting signed a professional contract running until 2010, this was prematurely extended until June 30, 2011 on February 1, 2008. He was a member from the 2007 /08 Bundesliga Club of HSV. On 1 August 2007 Choupo -Moting scored in a 1-0 victory in a friendly against Juventus scored his first goal in the pros. Four days later, on August 5, 2007, he made ​​his first competitive goal in the DFB Cup game at Holstein Kiel, the HSV won 5-0.

His league debut came on 11 August 2007, when he came off the bench against Hannover 96 in the 69th minute.

1 FC Nuremberg

End of August 2009 he was loaned for one year to the first FC Nuremberg. On September 19, 2009, he scored on his second outing in the 1-2 defeat against Bayern Munich his first Bundesliga goal. In the first round he played in ten inserts only twice over the full period. On 23 Round he came off the bench against Bayern Munich and has since been a regular player. Until the 25th matchday had stayed with his one goal, he had but two goals share in the victory against the previously undefeated title contenders Bayer Leverkusen. With six goals in 27 games, including the two play-offs, he was the second most successful striker of the season among the Franks.

Back at HSV

For the 2010/11 season he returned to Hamburger SV, ten Bundesliga (two goals) and two DFB Pokal games for which he made in the first round.

For the second half of the Bundesliga in the 2010/11 season Choupo -Moting should go on loan to the 1 FC Cologne. Due to a technical fault on the fax machine in exchange but failed: Choupo- Motings father and adviser sent the completed contract by fax at 17:49 1 FC Cologne. There, however, came to only one side of the contract. The page with the signature Choupo- Motings reached the 1 FC Cologne at 18:00. The association sent the contract at 18:06 to the DFL further, where he arrived at 18:13 - 13 minutes late. The transfer failed. Then put the 1st FC Cologne on the grounds that technical problems could not, at the DFL complaint. The motion to approve the change despite the failure of the deadline for submission of the transfer documents, the DFL dismissed on February 3, 2011.

After unconcluded loan deal Choupo -Moting was no longer considered for the first team and used for HSV II in the Regionalliga Nord. His June 30, 2011 expiring contract was not renewed.

1 FSV Mainz 05

For the 2011/12 season changed Choupo -Moting free transfer to Bundesliga 1 FSV Mainz 05 He signed a three-year contract until 30 June 2014. During his first season for Mainz he was with ten top scorer on the team. His second year in Mainz was unhappy. After a meniscus tear in his left knee shortly after the season starts and lengthy rehab he suffered in the spring of 2013, the same injury for a second time and so came only eight league games. His competitive comeback for the first team of Mainz he announced on August 3, 2013 in the first round of the DFB Cup in the game at Fortuna Köln, scoring just before game end in a 2-1 final score for Mainz 05

National

Choupo -Moting was German U-19 and U-21 national team and was awarded on 12 September 2007 by the DFB as "Young Player of the Season ". He received the Fritz -Walter - Medal in silver.

From coach Paul Le Guen Choupo -Moting was appointed to the Cameroon squad for the World Cup 2010. He scored on 5 June 2010 at 3:4 against Serbia his first international goal. On 14 June 2010, finally, he played himself "fixed" in the national team of Cameroon: With the defeat against Japan in the first group match of the 2010 World Cup he played from the beginning and was not allowed to compete for the German national team as final. 19 June 2010 Cameroon retired early in the second group match of the World Cup after a 1-2 against Denmark from. However, he was sitting in this game 90 minutes on the bench.

Private life

Choupo -Moting is married and, since October 17, 2013 a son.