Mohammed Lartey

Philipp Mohammed Lartey Kotoku ( [ la ː ɐ̯taɪ̯ ]; born December 4, 1986 in Dusseldorf ) is a German - Ghanaian footballer who was a two-footed attacking players especially in midfield, but partly also used in defense. For Rot Weiss Ahlen and Hansa Rostock Lartey denied a total of 34 games in the Bundesliga 2.

Career

Youth in Dusseldorf and Leverkusen

Lartey, who was born as the son of his father coming from Ghana and his German mother in Dusseldorf, his footballing career began at the age of three years, when he was notified of his brother Ishmael when Garather SV from Dusseldorf - Garath. About the intermediate station VfL Leverkusen Lartey then passed in 2001 at the age of 14 years in the youth divisions Bayer Leverkusen 04, in which he subsequently the B- and the A- youth went through. The A- Youth Leverkusen played from 2003 under coach Thomas Hörster in the newly formed U-19 league, so Lartey came in the premiere season 2003/ 04 to 20 and in the following season 2004/ 05 a further 22 missions in this league. Overall Lartey achieved in those two seasons, twelve gates for Bayer, but the team could initially as a fifth, then a third of the final table does not qualify for the finals of the German Championship of A-Juniors their season.

Lartey at Bayer Leverkusen

Even as A Teenager Lartey had already participated from September 2004 on the gaming operations Leverkusen's second representative in the men's area, so that he had come in the course of the 2004/05 season to a total of five appearances in the fourth division Oberliga Nordrhein and so to finally reached Rise of the team had contributed to the third-rate regional league. From the summer of 2005 Lartey then moved according to age in the men's area, Leverkusen. In the season 2005/ 06 Lartey was then scored eight goals in 27 inserts for relegation of the trained by Ulf Kirsten team as Tabellenelftem in 2006 /07 but played the Bayer reserve less successful and eventually rose last but one of the final table in the Oberliga Nordrhein from. It also Lartey was lagging behind the expectations placed in him and only had scored a goal within 25 inserts. In the league Lartey increased but in 2007 /08 his performance and contributed with twelve goals in 30 inserts for direct resurgence Leverkusen in the Regionalliga with, but that represented only the fourth- highest division due to league reform in summer 2008.

Change to Kiel and return to North Rhine -Westphalia

In August 2008, Lartey moved to the north of Germany, where he joined the trained by Peter Vollmann Kieler SV Holstein with a contract period of one year and which, as Leverkusen's reserve team played in the Regionalliga 2008/ 09. In his 31 missions Lartey was then helping the team win the championship of their season, and was able to rise as the year before, founded 3rd Liga. To achieve this goal, the club's management had exchanged the trainer in the winter and Falko Götz used as a new instructor, under the Lartey, however, increasingly had to take defensive duties, so that he had achieved all of his five goals this season during the first round. In the spring of 2009, he had been due to these services were also named " Player of the Year 2008 in Schleswig -Holstein".

Instead ascend with Holstein in the 3rd league, Lartey changed in the summer of 2009 a higher league to second division Rot Weiss Ahlen, in which he wrote again, initially for one year. However, under coach Stefan Emmerling Ahlen weak start to the 2009/10 season, with Lartey on the second match got a red lock and soon afterwards also a medial ligament in his left knee drew upon, as a result, he almost failed the whole season so far. During the second half Lartey was then but also in Ahlen team regular, but in the meantime, supervised by Christian Hock team could not avoid relegation end of the season.

Lartey at Hansa Rostock

Lartey then moved in the summer of 2010 to FC Hansa Rostock, who was staying together with awls from the 2nd Bundesliga in the third league. In the Baltic Sea dwellers Lartey signed again a one-year contract and also met on Peter Vollmann, who had already been his coach in Kiel, and Michael Wiemann and Sebastian Pelzer, with whom he had already played together in Ahlen. Thereupon Lartey developed again a top performer of his team, scored in the season 2010/11 ten goals in 37 stakes and finally reached with Hansa direct promotion back to the 2nd Bundesliga. In addition, Lartey won with the Hansa National Cup Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, which he had contributed with three goals in four stakes. His end of the season expiring contract, meanwhile, had already extended in March 2011 for another two years until 2013 Lartey.

In the following second-division season 2011/12 Lartey could say with 14 missions during the first 14 days first game as a regular in Rostock midfield, although the club had committed more competition for his position with Marek Mintal. As of late November 2011 Lartey was afflicted but then at a pubic bone inflammation, because of the it turned out for several months. In February 2012, Lartey therefore underwent a pubic bone surgery, so he initially denied a game for the Rostock reserve team in the Oberliga Nordost only on 1 May 2012 and on the last season Gameday could play for the first team five days later again. The re- descent of the now coached by Wolfgang Wolf team in the 3rd League, however, was already established with the previous matchday, which Larteys contract in Rostock lost its validity. He then wrote a new one-year contract with Hansa; already after the first match him but a pubic bone inflammation was again diagnosed, so that he had to pause a few months again. After Lartey, had reached until the end of the season in the Hansa until the penultimate game in the league, was denied any further use for Hansa, he did not renew his contract in order to concentrate fully on the recovery.

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