Tommy Grupe

Tommy Grupe (born 29 March 1992 in Rostock ) is a German football player who can be used as rechtsfüßiger defensive player both in central defense and at the six position. In his career, played Grupe, who also ran aground 18 times for the youth teams of the DFB, Hansa Rostock and Preußen Münster especially in the 3rd league.

Career

Youth in Mecklenburg

Born in Rostock, Grupe started his footballing career in the countryside of his native town, where he first joined in 1997 from the FSV Kritzmow. As early as 1999 Grupe changed hands as F -teenager to FC Hansa Rostock, whose youth teams he should go through in the next twelve years.

This Grupe made ​​from the C- youth also the German Football Association attention to himself, so that he was invited to various courses of the U-15 national team, among others, in September 2006. On 20 April 2007 Grupe finally made ​​his debut for the selection in the game against Switzerland in front of 12,000 spectators and was used by coach Bernd Stöber in the second and at the same time last U-15 game this vintage against Poland. The following year, Grupe established in the U-16 selection of Germany as a regular player, so it ran aground between September 2007 and May 2008 a total of eleven of thirteen kinds of games, scoring one goal. In the last of these games Grupe also formed with his teammates Rostock Pelle Jensen 's central defense, the German team.

At Hansa, Grupe, meanwhile, had moved up in October 2006 in the care of Roland Kroos B youth team and had contributed in the U-17 Regional to qualify the team for the newly created in the summer of 2007 U-17 league. In this achieved Grupe, now old, according to the B- youth belonging, in the inaugural season 2007/ 08 seven goals in a total of 26 missions and had so contributed significantly to the achieved this season ranked fifth among the final table. In the following season 2008/ 09, in which he also was captain of his team, Grupe ran 21 times for Hansa in the U-17 Bundesliga, where he was the top scorer of his team with eleven goals, the end of the season in fourth place occupied. Through its services to Rostock U- 17, Grupe but he can also recommend for the next higher year of the Hanseatic League, for whom he still graduated in 2008/ 09, the U-19 Bundesliga nine missions.

In the youth teams of the DFB Grupe was, however, only come sporadically used, so that he only completed three games coached by Marco Pezzaiuoli U- 17 team and was eventually no longer be considered for taking place in Germany in early summer 2009 European Championship. In July 2009, Grupe then received two inserts for the U-18 selection before his international career ended below.

Meanwhile Grupe was at Hansa also according to the age supervised by Michael Hartmann U-19. With 18 completed missions in the U-19 Bundesliga 2009/10 with the team he reached the finals of the German youth championship in the Grupe injury could be 05 used only in the second semi-final match against 1 FSV Mainz. In the final against Bayer 04 Leverkusen Grupe then ran again for Rostock, with Hansa was a 1-0 win for the first time A German Youth Champion. In the following season 2010/11 but now coached by Roland Kroos team was no longer able to build on this success, so Grupe with three goals in 17 missions during the season only contributed to a fifth place in the final table. In the DFB Junior Cup the team, however, reached the final of 2010/11, which was lost against SC Freiburg on penalties.

Beginnings in Rostock and Münster

In summer 2011, Grupe, who had now outgrown the youth teams, was first adopted in the second representation of Rostock in the men's area. With the trained Axel Rietentiet team he then played in the 2011 /12 fünftklassigen Oberliga Nordost.

As were the spring of 2012 only a few defenders for the first team for the second league game against Energie Cottbus available Grupe was first used by coach Wolfgang Wolf on April 10, 2012 in the 2nd Bundesliga. This should, however, remain his only use in the second division season 2011/12. By the end of the season Grupe reached then indeed with the reserve team sports promotion to the Regionalliga; since the first team but ultimately relegated from the Bundesliga 2 in the 3rd Liga, the reserve team lost but still have the right to rise. An offer to extend his expiring contract with Hansa was leaning Grupe from then.

In SC Preußen Münster Grupe found a new employer with whom he signed a temporary contract initially until 2014 in May 2012. With Munster Grupe came into the season 2012/13 under coach Pavel Dotchev as Hansa in the 3rd Liga, was used in the final minutes in this but only on the 16th Round by Substitutes. In addition, three inserts for Minster reserve team arrived in the sechstklassigen Westphalia league, in which he scored a total of two goals.

Then broke Grupe his contract with the Prussians in December 2012 and returned to FC Hansa back, which in its turn a 2014 dated contract with Grupe entered. For Hansa Grupe completed following twelve missions in the 3rd league, could reach the league with the trained team of Marc Fascher but only in the penultimate round.