Karim Benyamina
Benyamina in 2009
Karim Benyamina (Arabic كريم بن يمينة ) ( born December 18, 1981 in Dresden ) is a German -Algerian football player.
Club career
Beginnings in Berlin
The Dresden-born Algerian roots began in Berlin with the football games. His first stop as a youth player in the Mark Brandenburg was the district where Benyamina was growing up, MSV -based Normannia 08 From there he moved to FC 1 Luebars, where he became friends with his later union strike partner Shergo Biran. In 2000, he moved on to the Berliner AK 07 in the Oberliga West and from there a year later to league rivals Reinickendorfer foxes, with which he in 2003 surprisingly against the favorite Tennis Borussia Berlin won the Berlin Cup and so for the first round of the DFB Cup qualified. There, the very young, trained by Christian Backs team defeated but unhappy 1 FC Nuremberg 0-2.
Climbs with Union
A year later Benyamina left the foxes and joined the SV Babelsberg 03, where he in 33 games third-best scorer in the league was with 18 goals and as the interest of the 1 FC Union Berlin aroused, in straight out of the Football Regionalliga the Oberliga was staying. At the beginning of the season 2005/ 06 he moved to the Unionern and celebrated with the "iron " the resurgence in the third league. Benyamina itself was voted the best Berlin Amateur Player of the Year by the Berlin Football Association this season.
After holding the following season with Union the class succeeded in the 2007 /08 qualifying for the newly founded 3rd Liga. In their inaugural season in 2008/ 09 Benyamina won with the Unionern immediately awarded the championship and reached the promotion to the second division. In addition, he was again able to win the Cup with Union Berlin in 2007 and 2009.
In the second division Benyamina was less a goal threat than in previous years. In the two seasons between 2009 and 2011 he scored in 58 league games only 13 goals. Added to this was new competition by storm, especially by John Jairo Mosquera. Therefore Benyaminas contract was not renewed after the season 2010/11. With a total of 87 goals in 213 official matches but he left the club as the eternal scorer for the club founded in 1966. Therefore his shirt number is 22 as long as not allocated in the Union until someone has broken this record.
A little play time in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe
After his time at Union Benyanmina left Berlin and moved to the 2011/12 season for Premier League rivals FSV Frankfurt. For the season opener, he met his old club Union Berlin and scored in his first competitive game for the Bornheimer the hit to 1:1 Final, against Karlsruher SC had he followed a brace on Matchday 6. With these three goals but it should remain this season, in the course of the round was Benyamina increasingly rare in the starting lineup, especially after another striker had been committed during the winter break with Ilijan Mizanski.
Therefore, he moved to the 2012/13 season to the third division Karlsruher SC. Although the KSC he succeeded his total second second division climb, but he himself could not contribute to scoring only 13 times and was inducted into the league. He was therefore issued by the club release for a change. On December 2, 2013, his contract was dissolved there, so he can go to the Algerian football first division club MC El Eulma.
National team career
In November 2010 Benyamina was appointed for the first time in the squad of the Algerian national team for the friendly against Luxembourg and completed while his first international match. So far, a further application for the 1-1 draw with Algeria Tanzania followed in the context of qualifying for the Africa Cup of 2012.
Private
His younger brother Soufian is also a professional football player and as such was previously played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena and VfB Stuttgart. He now plays in Karim's birthplace at Dynamo Dresden.
Achievements
- Promotion to the Regionalliga Nord: 2006 Union Berlin
- Qualification for the 3rd League: 2008 with Union Berlin
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga: 2009 with Union Berlin and Karlsruher SC in 2013 with the