Jermaine Jones

Jermaine Jones ( 2011)

Jermaine Jones ( born November 3, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German -American soccer player. The 1.84 m wide right-footed midfield is variable (especially at the central position in the defensive midfield ) and is used in Beşiktaş Istanbul since 2014 under contract.

Career

Clubs

The beginning in Frankfurt

About the youth clubs Bonames SV and FV Bad Vilbel came Jones, has not gone unnoticed by scouts, to Frankfurt. He took his chance and found in 2000/ 01 the pro squad of Eintracht Frankfurt again. After he had been employed in the early years mainly for the amateurs of harmony, he succeeded in the 2nd Bundesliga to fight in the 2001/ 02 season, a regular place. The following season he was partially erected in concord in the attack. There, too, he knew to persuade and scored six goals in the league and another in the DFB Cup. Also thanks to Jones concord rose in the 1st Bundesliga. There, Jones injured the first time heavier and only came to five inserts of in the middle.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen

Nevertheless woke the striker, mainly thanks to continuing good performance in the 2nd Bundesliga, the interest of other clubs and moved to the winter break of the 2003/04 season free transfer to Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen. There he played for the rest of the season for the amateurs Leverkusen and was achievers. For the 2004/ 05 season, he made ​​the jump to the first team, but was infrequently used.

Back to basics

During the winter break, he returned a year later then on loan to second division club Eintracht Frankfurt back. The Hessen he proved to be good performances on his favorite position in the defensive midfield and reached in the 2004/05 season promotion to the Bundesliga; there, appointed by Friedhelm glitter to the team captain, he matured into a performer.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season Jones was suffering from a hairline fracture in the tibia. Despite the use of painkillers, an operation was inevitable; Therefore, Jones missed the DFB Cup Final 2006. As the symptoms increased after the first surgery, he had to be operated again, the metal plates used were removed. His comeback of -budgetary captain of Eintracht end of 2006, with his substitution in the DFB Cup match against 1 FC Cologne.

FC Schalke 04

For the season 2007/ 08 moved Jones to FC Schalke 04, in which he signed a contract valid until June 2011. Due to its dedicated and athletic game, he quickly established itself as a leading player in the Schalke midfield, so that the club extended his contract on 31 March 2009 to 30 June 2014. Because of the consequences of a hairline crack in the left shin Jermaine Jones could not play for Schalke 04 Bundesliga contest in the season 2009/10. His comeback he gave on Matchday 1 of the following season in the 1-2 defeat in the away match against Hamburger SV. Felix Magath gave Jones, after poor performances, no more confidence and announced that he did not plan on using it.

Blackburn Rovers

In January 2011, Jones joined on loan for six months to England to Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League. For the Rovers, he debuted on the 24th match day 2-0 win at home to West Bromwich Albion and was appointed after 90 minutes of use "Player of the Game ". In total, he completed 15 league games for the club, before he returned in July 2011 back to Schalke.

Return to FC Schalke 04

At Schalke he first sat in coach Ralf Rangnick on the bench, but he could after the coaching change to Huub Stevens back playing by the end of the first round in the starting eleven. After a lack of sportsmanship on 21 December 2011 at the first knockout round of the DFB Cup match at Borussia Mönchengladbach - Marco Reus Jones had kicked intentionally on the already wounded left foot - it was "because of violent conduct against the enemy in the form of extreme sport misconduct " to locked on 1 March 2012. Also, thanks to strong performances from Jones, the Schalke team qualified for the UEFA Champions League. For the 2012/13 season Jones was formed together with new signing Roman Neustadter a " double-six " in defensive midfield, where Jones played the offensive part. Jones started strong in the season with a goal and an assist in two games.

Beşiktaş Istanbul

On January 30, 2014 Jones joined the Turkish Süper Lig Beşiktaş Istanbul. He signed a contract until the end of the 2013/14 season, costing 200,000 euro transfer fee.

National

Germany

After good performances for his new club FC Schalke 04 Jones was appointed on 9 November 2007 by Germany coach Joachim Loew for the European Championship qualifiers against Cyprus and Wales for the first time in the squad of the national team, but his participation had shortly thereafter due to a home game against Hamburger SV on 10 November 2007 to cancel capsule injury suffered. He finally gave up on 6 February 2008 in a friendly against Austria made ​​his debut for the German A- national team. In May 2008 he was appointed Joachim Loew in the preliminary squad for the 2008 European Championship; However, the final squad did not belong to Jones then.

United States

In June 2009, Jermaine Jones announced that he for the trip to Asia the national team by Joachim Loew wants to continue to play for the national team of the United States due to its non-consideration. This change was possible because Jones had been used until then only in friendlies for Germany. Because it failed due to an injury the entire 2009/10 season, but he made his debut a year later for the U.S., as he stood in a friendly against Poland on the grid on October 9, 2010. With the U.S. National Team Jones took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2011, scoring in a 2-0 win in the quarterfinals against Jamaica 19 June 2011 his first international goal for the United States. At the end, he finished with the team after a 2:4 defeat in the final against Mexico in second place. On January 21, 2012, he led the 1-0 victory against Venezuela national team as captain on the field.

Play

The beidfüßigen midfielder will be awarded enormous athletic ability. Jones wins a lot of balls in midfield and closes gaps in the defense. He is mainly known for hard battle management to the lack of sportsmanship. Its form-fitting way to play football, Jones brought in his career a lot of yellow and yellow - red cards. After a blow to the former Gladbach Marco Reus in February 2012 in the DFB Cup second round Jones was suspended for eight weeks. In January 2013 was a barrier against Jones from four games, he had received due to a foul on Ibrahima Traoré in the previous month, reduced to three games. Overall, Jones was forced to leave six times early in his career the place because of fouls.

Private

Jones is the son of a stationed in Germany American soldier and a German mother and grew up in Frankfurt- Bonames. He is not related to the originating from the same district soccer world champion Steffi Jones, however, was Jones ' mother's day mother of Jermaine Jones. His cousin Wal Fall is also a professional football player and currently the SV Waldhof Mannheim under contract.

On September 9, 2007 Jones married in Schermbeck his longtime girlfriend, Miss Germany 2006 Sarah Gerth. With her he has five children: a son ( born July 22, 2001), one daughter ( born 17 December 2003), twins (born 23 April 2009) and another daughter (born 12 December 2012).

Achievements

  • DFL - Supercup Winner 2011
  • Actually, Jones was part of the team that won the 2011 DFB Cup, but he was on loan at the time of the profits to Blackburn Rovers.
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