Thomas Sobotzik

Thomas Sobotzik ( born October 16, 1974 in Gliwice ) is a former German football player of Polish descent.

Career

Thomas Sobotzik began his football career at age six when his native Piast Gliwice. At age nine, he moved to Gornik Zabrze. He and his family moved in 1987 to Frankfurt on the Main, where he was a pupil of the Helmholtz school and was accepted after a short time at Eintracht Frankfurt. Soon, he played in the U15. After a brief stopover at VfB Stuttgart, where he was twice German youth champion, he returned in 1990 to Frankfurt. There he received at age 17 already a professional contract. Due to a serious knee injury in 1991, he had to pause a long time.

At 20, he finally made ​​his first Bundesliga game. After two years at FC St. Pauli and a brief episode when 1 FC Kaiserslautern, he returned both times back to harmony. 2001 brought him Lothar Matthäus to Rapid Vienna. Finally Over 1 FC Union Berlin, he returned in 2004 to SpVgg Unterhaching.

Thomas Sobotzik scored 17 goals in 134 league games and 19 goals in 110 second-division games. As one of the most experienced and successful player he was in Unterhaching temporary captain of the team.

In 2007 he moved to Norway to Sandefjord Fotball. Sobotzik received a one-year contract. In January 2008, he joined the German third division FSV Frankfurt, where he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga at the end of the season. 2008/ 09 he played for the second team of FSV in the Federation League, in the Hessian Oberstedten he had then to summer 2011 end his active career in the county league at the local 1 FC 09 and now plays since then in the " old boys club " of 1. FC TSG Königstein football.