Michael Gregoritsch
Michael Gregoritsch (* April 18, 1994 in Graz) is an Austrian football player at the position of a striker. Since 2011 he is the German Bundesliga club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim under contract. In the 2013/14 season he played on loan at FC St. Pauli.
Career
Youth
He began with six years in the youth of the Grazer AK. There he went through the various age groups and was often the top scorer of the respective youth teams, where he was employed. So he scored in 2005/ 06 in 15 games 17 goals and surpassed in the 2006/07 season this performance as he scored 36 goals in 22 league games.
Kapfenberg SV
In June 2008, he succeeded his father, Werner Gregoritsch, to Kapfenberg, who served there since 2006 as head coach. During the season 2007 /08 even on a balance of 26 goals in 23 games, he increased his scoring prowess in 2008 /09 when he scored 31 goals in Kapfenberg junior youth in 18 games.
One of his greatest successes in the junior team was the champion title with the Styrian U- 15 team in 2008. He was one of six Kapfenberg players who were here ordered to the selection. At the same time he was honored this season as top scorer. Also in the 7-0 victory over the Tyrolean selection, fixed the Austrian league title, Gregoritsch scored a hat trick. In the ongoing season 2009/10 he came to 15 April 2010 in nine junior games 16 times for scoring.
22 August 2009 Gregoritsch made his national league debut when he came in the third championship round in a 1-1 away draw against SV Anger in 73 minutes for his team mate Markus tanks into play. After he was active exclusively in the offspring of the club then, he has been an increase from the twelfth round of the season to brief appearances in the National League team. Overall, he brought it to 18 April 2010 to nine league inserts and two goals. Among his first hits in the Styrian League brought it Gregoritsch 18 April 2010 in a 4-0 home win over the UFC Fehring, when he scored in the 53rd and 57th minutes into the opposing goal.
During this time, he sat once or twice in league games of the professional team on the bench, but did not it used. For the first time he sat there in the last round of the season 2008/ 09 against SK Rapid Vienna at Kapfenberg Exchange Bank.
On 14 April 2010 he made his debut in the top division of the country, as he, after 80 minutes for Michael Tieber came in a game against FK Austria Wien the game, which is also only a few laps before came to his pro debut. After the coach 's son came to his first scoring chance already at the 81 minute mark, he scored only one more minute later when only the second ball to the 1-0 goal for his team. With this goal, he will go down in the history of Austrian football league, as he so is the youngest player ever to score in this league. The home game against Austria Vienna ended in a 1-1 draw, as the former KSV players and nunmehrige Austria- actor Michael Liendl still came to equalizing goal in injury time.
With his first Bundesliga goal since he beat the existing record of May 2, 1986 Michael Binder, who came on from FC Admira Wacker at a 3:5 away defeat against SK Rapid Vienna in 76 minutes for Gerhard Rodax and still in the same minute scored the 3:5 - goal back. Binder celebrated twelve days on his 17th birthday and this was almost a year older than Gregoritsch in his first Bundesliga goal. Youngest scorer in Europe, however, remains the Italian Amedeo Amadei, who scored his first league goal in the Italian season 1936/37, for AS Roma in Serie A at the age of 15 years and 284 days. After a month in the office of the youngest scorer in Europe in the postwar period, he was replaced by the Swiss Endogan Adili, who came to his first Profitor in his professional debut at the age of 15 years and 284 days.
For the season 2011/12 required the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim Gregoritsch, but gave him for at least one year on loan back to Kapfenberg.
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Gregoritsch was already committed to the 2011/12 season, but came after a direct loan to his old club only for the 2012/13 season with the team. In his first year he came only in the second team (U - 23) in the fourth division Regionalliga Southwest used. There, he scored eleven goals in 28 missions.
Loan to FC St. Pauli
For the 2013/14 season Gregoritsch was loaned to second division side FC St. Pauli.
National
On August 9, 2011 Michael Gregoritsch first played for an Austrian junior national team. He came off the bench in the U -21 National team of Austria in Ireland in the 63rd minute.
Achievements
- U-15 Champion: 2008
- Scorer in U-15 League: 2008
- Youngest goalscorer in the history of the Austrian Bundesliga at the age of 15 years and 361 days
Private / family
Michael Gregoritsch visited the BG / BRG Kapfenberg. He previously visited in Graz, the BG / BRG Oeversee and moved from this to Kapfenberg.
He is the son of former professional player and coach Werner nunmehrigen Gregoritsch and his wife, Susan, who works as a physician in Graz. Michael Gregoritsch has an older brother.