Jeff Schlupp

Jeffrey Schlupp in action for Leicester City

Jeffrey Schlupp (born 23 December 1992 in Hamburg ) is a German - Ghanaian footballer who is currently the English second division Leicester City under contract.

Career

Association

Schlupp was born in Hamburg in 1992, but grew up in England and attended the Oakgrove School in Milton Keynes. He went through numerous junior teams from Leicester City and showed good performance in the youth leagues and the FA Youth Cup. He reached there in early 2011 with his team the quarter-finals and won the 2011 Academy Player of the Year Award as the best player in the youth team.

In the 2010/11 season Schlupp was also the first time the squad for the first team of the Foxes, which competed in the Football League Championship, England's second league. He came for the time being but to no professional use, and was first awarded in March 2011 for a month at Brentford FC in the third-class Football League One. There he made ​​his debut on 15 March 2011 in the 0-1 defeat against Huddersfield Town. In his third race, the first over the full 90 minutes, he scored in a 2-1 win over Carlisle United on 25 March 2011 his first two goals for Brentford. Due to its good performance his loan was extended until the end of the season 2010/11 and Schlupp achieved a total of six goals in nine league games. In addition, the final of the Football League Trophy was reached in which lost Schlupp and his team at Wembley Stadium 0-1 against Carlisle United.

For the 2011/12 season he returned to Leicester City and played 13 August 2011 (2nd Round ) against Reading FC for the first time in the Football League Championship. On October 1, 2011, he was able to achieve even its first second-division matches in the 4-0 win over Derby County. In the seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13 he played regularly and came to a total of 40 games in which he scored five goals. In January 2013 Schlupp completed a three-week trial at Manchester United, during which he played two games for the U-21 team against Liverpool and West Ham United. 2013 Leicester City reached the sixth place and thus the Promotion Playoffs, where you but Watford FC defeated in the semifinals.

National

Schlupp is eligible to play for both the German as well as for the Ghanaian and the England national team.

In March 2011, he was invited by coach Ralf Minge surprising for a course of the German U-19 national team, but was no use in one of the DFB Junior National Teams.

In November 2011, Schlupp was invited by the Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic in a training camp of the Ghanaian national team in Paris and arrived on 15 November in a friendly against Gabon in Saint -Leu- la -Forêt by Substitutes for his international debut.

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