Fabian Ernst

Fabian Ernst ( * May 30, 1979 in Hannover ) is a former German footballer, who played for the Turkish club Kasımpaşa Istanbul. On June 18, 2013, has completed a 34 -year-old 's career.

Career

Association

Ernst began in 1983 at the age of four years with the club soccer at Hanover 96 He went through all the youth teams of the club and several youth national teams and got 1996 as a 17 -year-old a first professional contract with the Lower Saxony, where he in the seasons 1996/97 and 1997 / 98 became a regular player. In 1998 he moved to Hamburger SV, whom he left again in 2000 and went to Werder Bremen. After winning the championship and the DFB Cup 2004 2005 he moved to league rivals FC Schalke 04, with whom he won the League Cup in the same year. In the winter of 2009 he moved to the end of the transfer deadline in Turkey for Beşiktaş Istanbul. With the traditional club Ernst won yet in the same season the Turkish Cup by a 4-2 success in the final over local rivals Fenerbahce and the Turkish championship.

In the summer of 2012, he released his ongoing until summer 2014 contract by mutual consent on with Beşiktaş. Just a few days after this contract resolution, he joined the Süper Lig Up Kasımpaşa Istanbul. On 18 June 2013, the club said that the original 2014 current contract had been terminated by mutual agreement. Ernst, thus ending his career as a football player.

National

Fabian Ernst was a German national team, has completed 24 caps and has achieved a goal. He was nominated in May 2002 for the preliminary squad of the national team for World Cup 2002. His first international game, he completed a short time later, on 9 May 2002 in Freiburg 's 7-0 win against Kuwait. After the match against Wales, in which he never had a use, he was removed from the provisional squad and had to return home. With the national Ernst took part in the 2004 European Championships in Portugal, where, however, he was able to record only a brief appearance in the first game against the Netherlands. For the 2006 World Cup, he was not nominated by surprise at the last minute.

Ernst also played on the team in 2006, which he, like all youth national teams ( he went through each ), as captain led the field. In 1998 he became vice European champion with the U -18, he is a record holder of the U -21 with 31 games. In his last two seasons, he was Bremer each replacement captain, as well as at FC Schalke 04

In 2007, Ernst announced that he would no longer play for the national under Loew.

Others

Ernst has been cultivating a very good friendship with his former teammate Gerald Asamoah, who, like Ernst in the youth of Hanover played 96 and even went to the same secondary school class before Ernst on high school Wilhelm- Raabe -Schule ( Hannover) and then click the Humboldt School of Hanover. They met frequently in the national team again and from 2005 to January 2009, they played together at FC Schalke 04 plays Ernst 2012/13 The 30th season club soccer and it 17th season as a professional, making it already 33 years one of the " longest-serving " German footballer.

Achievements

Club level

  • German Masters: 2004
  • DFB Cup: 2004
  • German League Cup: 2005
  • Turkish champions: 2009
  • Turkish Cup winners: 2009, 2011

Individually

  • Bremer Sportsman of the Year: 2003
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