Loris Karius

Loris Karius (born 22 June 1993 in Biberach an der Riss) is a German football goalkeeper. He is since 2011 the first FSV Mainz 05 under contract, and has won several German youth international.

Life

Karius came on 22 June 1993 in Biberach an der Riss to the world. He attended until 2009, the Pestalozzi -Gymnasium Biberach, after he joined the youth of Manchester City, he was taught by a private tutor after training.

Club career

Karius began when FV Biberach to football games. He then spent a year at SG Mettenberg and changed in autumn 2001 in the youth of the SSV Ulm 1846. In July 2005 he moved to the youth of VfB Stuttgart. In July 2009, he left the U -17 Stuttgart and moved to England at the U-18 team of Manchester City. From 2010 Karius belonged to the reserve team of Manchester City, for whom he made ​​his debut on April 13 against the reserve of Wigan Athletics. Also in the 2010/11 season he was again nominated for the Games of the reserve of Manchester.

In August 2011 Karius 05 was borrowed from 1 FSV Mainz. He was a regular in the second team to use, so he was obliged in January 2012 as number three behind Christian Wetklo and Heinz Mueller and received a contract until 2014. By the end of the 2011/12 season, he still played ten times in the second team. On January 22, 2012 Karius was first nominated in the match against Bayer 04 Leverkusen for the first team, but had no use.

In the 2012/13 season Karius was after the injury- induced failure of Heinz Müller second keeper behind Christian Wetklo. After a dismissal for Wetklo on 1 December 2012 in the match against Hannover 96 (2:1) Karius came on in the 52nd minute for Shawn Parker and completed his debut in goal for Mainz. His second Bundesliga use was almost a year coming and took place under the same sign. After an injury of Müller and red card suspension Wetklos Karius was on November 10, 2013, the 12th matchday of the 2013/14 season, the first 90 minutes in goal and held the 1-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt. In the following years he rose to the goalkeeper, although he had only gone as the third goalie in the season. In March 2014 Mainz 05 used an option to extend and prolonged Karius ' contract for another year until June 2015.

National

Karius went through various German junior national teams, but was often in the shadow of Timo Horn, who is in the service of the 1st FC Cologne since 2002. His debut in the U-16 national team, he was on 16 September in a friendly against Belgium (5-0 ). Overall, he completed three games. With the U-17 team Karius took part in the Four Nations tournament in the U-17 national teams in 2009, where he once came against Serbia (1-0 ) are used.

In the U-18 National Team Germany Karius once played 24 March 2011 against France U-18 (1:2). After a commitment to the U-19 selection against the Netherlands (2-2 ) 4 September 2011 Loris Karius came on 14 November 2012 at the match against Poland (1:2 ) on its first use in the German U- 20 Team, when he came off the bench for the second half for Patrick Rakovsky.