Kevin Volland

Volland in training, 2010

Kevin Volland (born 30 July 1992 Marktoberdorf ) is a German football player. The striker is at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim under contract.

Career

Youth

After he began at FC Thalhofen playing football, changed Volland 2005 C -Jugend FC Memmingen, which played in the Bavarian League, the top division at that time. After relegation in 2006 he moved to TSG Thannhausen in to continue playing in the highest league. In the summer of 2007, he joined the youth academy of TSV 1860 Munich, where he also lived in the club's youth academy. On 16 October 2008 he made his debut in the dress of the DFB, when he played for the German U -17 from the start against the U -17 Czech Republic. Even three days later against Russia he was in the starting lineup. Until his next assignment in the German U -17 than a year passed. In the fall of 2009, he was part of the German squad at the World Cup in Nigeria. He came in the final group game against Honduras for use, where he scored his only goal for the German U17, and in the second round, where the team was denied by the eventual champions Switzerland.

Already at the end of July 2009 he was the first time accrued for the German U-18. When Milk Cup he played in all three games and scored in the matches against the U -20 Northern Ireland, the U -19 United States and the Bulgarian U -20 a goal each. By May 2010, he played five times for the U -19, scoring two goals. In the club he was in season 2009/10 starting players of the U- 19th In 23 league games, he scored seven goals. Twice he sat in the Regionalliga Süd on the bank of the U23, was an unused substitute.

Beginnings in professional football

To prepare for the season 2010/11 coach Reiner Maurer brought him together with the other A- young Moritz Leitner, Daniel Hofstetter and Markus Ziereis to the professionals of the TSV 1860. Volland went through the entire preparation with the first team and came in twelve of 14 games for use. On 14 August 2010, he was as Moritz Leitner his competitive debut for 1860, when he came off the bench in the cup match in Verl. After he came twice for the U19 and three times for the second representation of the Sechzger used, whereby he scored four goals for the U19 and two for the U23. His first game for the senior team in the 2nd Bundesliga, he played on 26 September 2010, when he came off the bench in the game in Augsburg. Until the winter break, followed by six more short assignments.

In the National Volland had risen in the summer to U-19. On 18 August 2010 he came in the game against Belgium to its first use, he scored his first goal on September 3 against the Netherlands. By the winter he was still used five times, where he scored four goals.

In January 2011, Volland signed for Bundesliga side TSG 1899 Hoffenheim a contract until 2015, but he remained on loan continue in Munich. A rental contract ran until the summer of 2012, with Hoffenheim had the option to bring him in the winter of 2011/12 to be. When playing in Osnabrück on 21 January 2011, he stood for the first time in the starting lineup of the Lions, and scored his first competitive goal for TSV 1860. During the fifteen remaining games of the season Volland always stood in the starting lineup. He scored five goals in those games and prepared four more before. After the end of the second division season, he ran again for the U19 on the Sechzger who had qualified for the finals of the German Cup. He contested the semi-finals against 1.FC Kaiserslautern from the beginning, in which, however, pass through the Red Devils. Also for the German U19 he played in the second half three times and scored one goal.

Establishment at 1860

Also in the new season he started as a regular player in the first six games, he scored four goals and set up two more before. On August 31, he first played for the German U -20, for which he also shot the first goal in the new junior national team playing time. In early August, the DFB had the bronze Fritz Walter medal awarded in the age group U19 him. For the games against Bosnia- Herzegovina and San Marino on October 6th and 10th, he was appointed coach Rainer Adrion of the squad for the first time in the German U21, but he had to cancel due to an injury to participate.

The TSG Hoffenheim took the option to bring Volland already in winter is not. Volland was until the winter break of the most prolific players Lion in 21 official matches, he scored ten goals and prepared six more ago. On February 29, 2012, he finally came to his first race for the German U- 21 when he came off the bench in the game against Greece in the final phase. At the end of the second division season with 14 goals Volland stood at the head of internal scoring charts, he relegated his strike partner Benjamin Lauth and Stefan Aigner Right Wing, each with eleven goals in second place. Overall Volland shot for Sechzger in 57 league games scoring 20 goals in three cup matches he once met.

Move to Hoffenheim

For the season 2012/13 Volland finally joined the Kraichgau and was now one and a half years after the obligation to levy of TSG Hoffenheim. On November 3, 2012, he scored his 10th game in his first Bundesliga goal when he met the interim 1-0 in a 3-2 home success of the Hoffenheim game against FC Schalke 04. In his first season, Volland has established itself as a regular in Hoffenheim, in the 2012/2013 season pass him in the Bundesliga 6 goals and 12 assists, in the current season 9 Goals and 8 Assists. On 28 July 2013, the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim announced early contract extension with Kevin Volland in 2017.

Others

His father is the former National Hockey player Andreas Volland. Also Volland first played at EV Füssen Ice Hockey before he started playing football.

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