Kevin Müller (footballer)

Müller in the match with Hansa Rostock against Östers IF, 19. January 2013.

Kevin Müller (born 15 March 1991 in Rostock ) is a German football player. The goalkeeper, who ran aground seven times for the youth teams of the DFB, began his career with Hansa Rostock in the 3rd Liga and the Bundesliga 2.

Career

Youth in Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg

Although born in Rostock, the goalkeeper his footballing career started in 1997 in the youth department of the Lower Saxony TuSpo Bad Munder, after his parents had moved soon after his birth, for professional reasons in the near Hanover.

In 1998 the family returned to Rostock and back Kevin moved to FC Hansa Rostock, had already played in which his maternal uncle by marriage Martin Pieckenhagen as a goalkeeper in the Bundesliga. By 2010, Müller went through then all the youth teams of the Hansa, giving priority to the U-19 Bundesliga became particularly in the seasons 2008/ 09 and 2009/ 10 for service providers trained by the Michael Hartmann Rostock 's youth. So he reached with this 2008/ 09, the runner-up and the following season the championship of their season and the associated final round of the German youth championship, which Müller recommended also for the temporary participation in the training of the Rostock second division team under Andreas Zachhuber. In the championship final round, led by Müller as captain of the team finally in the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen won by a 1-0 win the first national youth titles Hansas since reunification. Shortly before Müller passing his Abitur at the Christophorusschule Rostock and then planned a correspondence course in history and public law to take.

Starts at Hansa Rostock

Together with Lucas Albrecht, the top scorer of the championship team, Müller moved then into the first team of the club, which had just been relegated from the Bundesliga 2 in the 3rd league. In this Müller continued to train under Michael Hartmann, who had served in the summer of 2010, the office of the assistant coach under new trainer Peter Vollmann. For goalkeeper of Rostock in the season 2010/11, certain of these Jörg Hahnel, while Müller initially alternately filled with Andreas Kerner, the third Hansa player on the goalkeeper position, the role of the substitute goalkeeper. Match practice, however, Müller collected during missions for the reserve team that played under Axel Rietentiet in fünftklassigen Oberliga Nordost 2010/11. After an injury Hahnels Müller but finally was preferred to the Kerner was three years older, so he played 16 October 2010 against 1 FC Heidenheim his debut in the third league. Until the winter break, Müller was then goalkeeper of the Hanseatic League, at the beginning of the second half but took again Jörg Hahnel this post one.

Already on September 6, 2010 Müller had completed his debut in the trained by Frank Wormuth U-20 national team, when he came off the bench in a 3-2 victory over Switzerland for the second half. For the first time in the starting lineup, he was, however, only 24 March 2011 in a 1-1 draw against Poland, which marked the fourth appearance in the dress of the national team for Müller.

For Rostock Müller played in the spring of 2011, initially only in the National Cup - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in which he played the games of eighth -, quarter- and semi-finals of the. In league play, however, he came again only in April 2011 for use when he was first called up again for the reserve team in the Oberliga. After the professional team of the revival was not to take more calculated to the 2nd Bundesliga, moved Müller end of April, but again to score the third division football team and so came to two other missions in the promotion team. The last game of the season but again denied miller competitor Hahnel, who also served in the victorious Hansa final of the national cup as a goalkeeper.

For the 2011/12 season Müller was preferred to Jörg Hahnel as Hansas new goalkeeper. Was replaced as manager Vollmann in December 2011 due to the impending re descent by Wolfgang Wolf, Miller retained his position in the Hansa gate at first, so he played up to and including the 26th match day in all parts of Rostock. After a temporary injury miller Wolf sat in a relegation battle at the end of March 2012 but returned to the more experienced Hahnel, so Müller meantime aground again for the reserve team in the Oberliga. Finally, Rostock was already but from the penultimate round relegated fixed, whereupon Mueller last season play once guarded the Hansa Gate. His end of the season expiring contract with Hansa extended Müller then for one year until 2013.

At the beginning of the third league match 2012/13 season, Müller continued again against its competitors on the goalkeeper position, but was injured in the course represented the first round by both the older Hahnel and by the younger John Brinkies. Last received in spring 2013 by the now acting as coach Marc Fascher also for some games in preference to Mueller, but ultimately returned this back to the Hansa Gate and thus came to a total of 28 season inserts. Instead of actually targeted to the resurgence of the team, however, had played against the threat of relegation to the Viertklassigkeit and reached the league until the penultimate round. His expiring contract with Hansa did not extend Müller below.

Müller VfB Stuttgart

In June 2013 Müller signed a two -year contract with VfB Stuttgart, where he was initially intended for the reserve team 2013/14 as well as Hansa plays in the 3rd Liga.

Family

On May 25, 2012 Mueller married the mother of their son, who had come on April 24, 2011 on the world.