Manfred Starke

Strong in the match with Hansa Rostock, 23 June, 2012 Zehdenick

Manfred Starke ( born February 21, 1991 Windhoek ) is a deutschnamibischer football player who is used as a left-footed mostly in the left side of midfield or in the outer defense, but also in the central midfield. His career began in Starke, below the national team of his native country, was at Hansa Rostock in the second Bundesliga and the third division. In addition, he was responsible for the Namibian youth national teams at times in fistball active.

Career

Childhood and youth in Namibia

Manfred Starke was born in 1991 as the son of his father deutschnamibischen Richard, who had also played active football and later should work as a football coach of SK Windhoek, and its coming from the Netherlands Mother Carla in Namibia, Windhoek. The age of seven Strong began at the German higher private school Windhoek to play soccer. Four years later he began, in addition to also play fistball.

As Strong Father through a coaching course in 2003, the German Heinz Werner met, this was attentive also to Manfred and gave him a three-week trial at the first FC Union Berlin. However, since the Union possessed at this time does not have a boarding school, a permanent change came in the youth department of the Association of the question, and he a three-month trial with FC Hansa Rostock completed. The following year, he finally as a 13 -year-old moved to Rostock, where he was placed in the club's boarding school.

Youth in Germany

From 2004 to 2006 Strong played for Hansas C- youth. 2006 his two years younger sister Sandra moved to Germany and also on target for the 1st FFC Turbine Potsdam also has a career as a football player at; she was German youth national team. Manfred Starke, however, had to leave in the summer of 2006 due to lack of sporting perspective, the place in Rostock boarding school, and he initially lived with a host family in Rostock and continued his footballing career at the suburban club FSV Bentwisch. In the summer of 2007 he returned, however, to FC Hansa back after the leaders of the club still had good performances in the Youth B Bentwischs can convince.

With the Rostock Youth B Strong played from 2007 in the U-17 Bundesliga newly established and carried under coach Roland Kroos with two goals in 25 inserts for finally reached fifth place in the Final Table 2007/08. In summer 2008, Strong moved then into the A- youth of the club, so he / 09 of the U-19 Bundesliga once again came to 25 inserts for them in the 2008 season. The coached by Michael Hartmann team finished with only one point behind Werder Bremen the second rank their Bundesliga season and thus missed the part in the final round of the German football championship of the A- juniors.

In the 2009/10 U-19 Bundesliga season Strong, who had in the meantime passed his diploma in metal engineering at the " Vocational School of the Hanseatic city of Rostock " wore, then with 23 inserts to the first place of the season north / northeast at. In the championship finals thus achieved Strong came in both the semi-finals against Mainz and in the final against Leverkusen used. By a 1-0 win Hansa won the first national youth titles in the all-German football.

Although Strong had hardly played fistball since his move to Germany, he had 09 nominations in the winter of 2008 / for the Namibian U-18 Fist polo team, so he took part in early January 2009 at the U -18 World Cup in Swakopmund. However, the host Namibian team finished last among the six participating nations. In the same year the first time Strong also played for the youth teams of the Namibian Football Association: In a end of August 2009 to be held in Angola Four Nations Tournament Strong finished with the Namibian U-19 selection in second place. Notably, however, only took Strong to play the national team when he already was staying on holiday in Namibia, as well as, for example, in December 2010 in a match of the U- 23 side in the Olympic qualifiers. During these vacations in Namibia, he also played sporadically for the SK Windhoek in tournaments such as the " Christmas Cup ".

Starts at Hansa Rostock

Although Hansas professional team was relegated in the summer of 2010 in the 3rd league and now increasingly resorted to the integration of Tom Trybull, Kevin Mueller and Lucas Albrecht on players of the A- youth champion team to Strong could not at first for a takeover in Rostock Senior Squad recommend and the reserve team was assigned instead. This played in the 2010/11 season under coach Axel Rietentiet in fünftklassigen Oberliga Nordost, in which it had been withdrawn for financial reasons, although she had previously reached the league in the Regionalliga. Strong established himself then as a regular player in the league and contributed in 27 missions to the fact that the team finished tied with the winners Torgelow second place in the final table. On the possible waiver by Torgelow rise of the reserve team Hansa waived, however, so they also played the following season 2011/12 in the league.

The professional team of Rostock, meanwhile, had risen again in the summer of 2011 to the 2nd Bundesliga, resulting in strong potential for use in this first even decreased. Therefore, he first went to autumn in twelve games of the reserve team, but could recommend it with good performance, at least for the participation in the training operation of Rostock professional team under Peter Vollmann. In November Vollmann Strong finally officially convened in the professional squad, so he took on 25 November 2011 in the game against Union Berlin for the first time on the bench space, but was not used.

To continue to get playing time, Strong was therefore in due course to the basic formation of the Hansa- reserve in the big leagues. Even after the relegation- threatened club coach had Vollmann replaced by Wolfgang Wolf in December 2011, this situation did not change. It was not until April 10, 2012 Wolf was the midfielder finally make his debut in the Bundesliga 2 by einwechselte him in the away match against Energie Cottbus. Then Strong came to the following four games for use, including two times in the grid. With the Rostock team he took during these last four season games only one point, which ultimately sealed the renewed decline of the club in the third division. His end of the season expiring contract with Hansa he nevertheless extended by one year to 2013.

In May 2012, Strong had been called by coach Bernhard Kaanjuka first time in the Namibian national football team, which the qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup in 2014 held a ten-day training camp at the Sports School Kaiserau in Germany in preparation. Due to injury, had his strong participation in, although need to cancel, was born on October 13, 2012 a 0-0 draw in a friendly against Namibia Rwanda on his first international cap.

Meanwhile, Strong had again recovered at Hansa at the beginning of the third league match 2012/13 season in the reserve player, so it despite between temporal coaching change from Wolf to Marc Fascher came up to the spring of 2013, only five brief appearances by substitutions. This overshadowed Hansa, instead of playing to its chances of promotion, in renewed danger of relegation. By April 2013, Strong was then in the last seven games of the season each in the starting lineup and scored three goals during these missions, so he had share of the league. His contract with Hansa prolonged Strong then again, this time by two years until 2015.