Matthias Ginter

Matthias Ginter in July 2013

Matthias Ginter (born 19 January 1994 Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German football player who is under contract at SC Freiburg.

Career

Clubs

Ginter began at the age of four years at SV March to play football and joined the 2005/06 season in the D- youth of SC Freiburg. With the A - Youth ( U-19 ), he won the 2011 DFB Junior Club Cup.

In January 2012, graduated from Ginter, who belonged to the younger year of the A- youth at this time, the winter preparation with the pros. On January 21, 2012 ( 18th Round ), he completed the 1-0 win against FC Augsburg made ​​his professional debut when he came on in the 70 minutes for Anton Puzila. In the 88th minute he scored the winning goal for his team. He was thus the youngest with an age of 18 years and two days scorer in the club 's history. He took over from Dennis Aogo, who was at the time of its first goal about a month older. Two days later, he signed with SC Freiburg his first professional contract. In the course of the season he acquired a permanent place next to Fallou Diagne in central defense. With the Ginter professionals reaching relegation in the Bundesliga. He also won the A- Youth 2012 is the second time the DFB Junior Club Cup.

National

Ginter played six times for the U-18 selection and has been the first group match of the U- 21 team during the European Championship in 2013, which was lost with 2:3 against the selection of the Netherlands national team in this age group.

For the friendly against Chile on March 5, 2014 Matthias Ginter was first appointed to the German national team, in the game he was substituted in the 88th minute. He thus became the 900.Nationalspieler in the history of the A-team.

Play

In youth Ginter was mostly used as an offensive or defensive midfielder. After his breakthrough into the first squad of SC Freiburg at the beginning of 2012, he was therefore initially planned as a defensive midfielder. He was transferred to the middle due to the failure of four -budgetary central defenders and was able to establish itself in this position in the Bundesliga.

Achievements

  • DFB Junior Cup Winners 2011, 2012

Awards

  • Fritz Walter Gold Medal (2 ): 2012 (U -18), 2013 (U -19)
Defender (association football) Diagné Fallou Fritz Walter Medal Julian Draxler Daniel Batz Oliver Baumann Francis Coquelin Gelson Fernandes Sebastian Freis Mike Hanke Christopher Jullien Felix Klaus Admir Mehmedi Julian Schuster Oliver Sorg Marco Terrazzino Hendrick Zuck Philipp Zulechner Christian Streich
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