Niclas Füllkrug

Niclas Füllkrug (2012 )

Niclas Füllkrug ( born February 9, 1993, Hanover ) is a German football player. His nickname is "gap".

Career

Clubs

Youth in Hannover

Niclas Füllkrug played for nine years until the age of 14 in Hanover's district Rickingen and was thereby partially also trained by his father, who was active in the sport Rickingen friends. The son became one of the most coveted striker talent in Germany and scored in the F- Youth 162 goals in a season.

Change to Bremen

In 2006 he moved to Werder Bremen. So he could initially still at home spend half the week in Lower Saxony and came for the long weekend to the Hanseatic League, before he finally moved fully into the Werder - boarding.

In association Füllkrug was successful in the 2009/10 season in the U-17 with 17 goals in 22 games. The following year, he scored twelve goals in 17 games of the U -19 and was six assists. And a year later, he was 18 years old in the squad of U -23, who played in the third league. There he was employed from the start regularly.

Professional at Werder

Since the winter preparation in January 2012 in Belek Füllkrug belonged to the squad of professionals. On January 21, 2012 ( 18th Round ) he was 0-0 against 1 FC Kaiserslautern for the first time in the 18 -man squad for a league game. However, he did not play. His debut in the Bundesliga he gave on 28 January 2012 on the 19th match day home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen (1:1 ) when he came on in the 63rd minute for Mehmet Ekici. On 9 April 2012, his 19th birthday, Füllkrug signed his first professional contract with a term until 30 June 2015 On 24 March 2012 ( 27th Round ), he scored the opening goal in the 1-1 to 1-0. - draw at home against FC Augsburg his first Bundesliga goal.

Lending to the 2nd Bundesliga

On August 24, 2013 Füllkrug moved to the end of the 2013/14 season on loan to the 2nd Bundesliga for SpVgg Greuther Fürth. On November 2, 2013 ( 13th Round ) scored the striker scored four goals for the game of association in a 6-2 away win against Erzgebirge Aue, including a hat-trick in the first half.

National

With Bremen he played in the highest junior leagues and showed his goal threat. He was often ahead of schedule used in the higher years. However, it took until 2010 until he was first appointed in a youth team of the DFB and on November 16, came to his first international assignment in the U-18 national team. The following year "gap" was playing, as he is known for his eye-catching Gap, seven times in the U-19 national team, scoring five goals.