Stefan Leitl

Stefan Leitl ( born August 29, 1977 in Munich) is a former football player and current coach.

Career

Clubs

Grew up as the youngest of five brothers in Ismaning, began his career with his hometown club, FC Ismaning. 1987 came Leitl in the youth department of FC Bayern Munich where he remained until 1996 and the first team squad until 1998. Without the use in the Bundesliga and only for the amateurs in the game mode is active, Leitl joined the Regionalliga Süd SV for other jurisdictions, where he became the leading player.

In 1999, he left other jurisdictions, and signed at second division 1 FC Nuremberg, for he held until 2001 - the last year in the Premier League - played. His first game as a professional Leitl denied on August 15, 1999 ( 1st Round ) 3-0 home win against SV Waldhof Mannheim; He scored his first goal on August 29, 1999 ( 4th Round ) in a 2-1 home win over Fortuna Köln. His first five league games he played (5th Round ) on 8 August 2001 in the 0-1 defeat at TSV 1860 München.

In the following three years he was - changed during the winter break 2002 - for SpVgg Unterhaching under contract, first played in the 2nd Bundesliga, rose from the Regionalliga and managed his team the direct ascent.

In 2004 he went to Hesse and played - under coach Bruno Labbadia - until 2007 for the Ascended just starting out in the Regionalliga Süd SV Darmstadt 98 With the descent of the SV Darmstadt in Hesse league changed Leitl for FC Ingolstadt 04 with the second in the season of promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga succeeded, since he is captain of the team. By relegated to the 3rd league at the end of the season 2008/ 09 club Leitl came with the third place in the table of the association and the two relegation matches against Hansa Rostock immediate return to the 2nd Bundesliga. Leitl is considered safer penalty taker. In the 2009/10 third league season he scored all of his eight Strafströße - League peak. In the 4-1 away victory against VfL Bochum on 20th November 2010 ( 13th Round ), he scored three goals - his first " hat-trick " in his professional career. On May 19, 2013 ( 34th Round ), in the 0-3 defeat at home to 1.FC Köln, he denied not only his last league game, but his last game as an active soccer player ever.

National

For the U- 21 team in 1997 Leitl called twice: on 25 November, the "U -21" in Freiburg scored a 2-2 draw against Switzerland and on 9 December in Cologne a goalless draw against Belgium; in both games he only came in the first half for use. In 1998, he played twice for the Olympic selection: On May 15, they played in Toulon / France 1-1 against the selection of China and on May 19 they lost in Mallemort / France 0-1 against Portugal. He also completed some games in the U-18 national team.