Christoph Kramer

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Christoph Kramer
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Kramer in 2014
Personal information
Full name Christoph Kramer[1]
Date of birth (1991-02-19) 19 February 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Solingen, Germany
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Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Bayer Leverkusen
Number 23
Youth career
1995–1999 BV Gräfrath
1999–2006 Bayer Leverkusen
2006–2008 Fortuna Düsseldorf
2008–2010 Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2011 Bayer Leverkusen II 27 (0)
2011– Bayer Leverkusen 26 (0)
2011–2013 → VfL Bochum (loan) 61 (4)
2013–2015 → Borussia M'gladbach (loan) 63 (5)
International career‡
2009–2010 Germany U19 5 (0)
2010–2012 Germany U20 4 (1)
2014– Germany 12 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:13, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:09, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Christoph Kramer (born 19 February 1991) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Bayer Leverkusen[2][3] and the German national team.

After a season in their reserve team, Kramer was promoted to Bayer Leverkusen's first team in 2011. He then spent two seasons on loan at second-tier VfL Bochum, and a further two at top-flight Mönchengladbach.

Kramer made his full international debut on 13 May 2014, and later that year was part of the German squad which won the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Club career

Bayer Leverkusen

Kramer joined local club BV Graefrath in 1995 before being snapped up by Bayer Leverkusen at the age of eight.[4] But Kramer was cut from the Leverkusen youth squad at the age of fifteen in 2006 because of his relatively small height.[4] After two years with the Fortuna Duesseldorf youth squad, Kramer returned to Leverkusen in 2008, signed his first senior contract in 2010 and was promoted to Bayer Leverkusen II for the 2010-11 season.[4] He gained promotion to the senior squad in 2011 and was immediately loaned out to 2. Bundesliga side VfL Bochum for the 2011–12 season.[4]

Loan to VfL Bochum

Kramer made his professional debut on 18 July 2011, coming on as a second-half substitute for Andreas Johansson in a 2–0 defeat of Bochum to Fortuna Düsseldorf.[5] His first goal for the club came on 25 February 2012, scoring a consolation goal in a 6–2 defeat to Greuther Fürth.[6] During the 2012–13 2. Bundesliga season, Kramer was involved in 852 tackles, the most by any player in the league, and won fifty percent of them.[7] In the process, he committed 73 fouls but was only given eight yellow cards.[7] In his two seasons in the second division with Bochum, Kramer made 61 league appearances and scored four goals.[8] Following his spell at Bochum, he became a season-ticket holder at the RewirpowerSTADION.[4]

Loan to Borussia Mönchengladbach

Following his two-year spell with Bochum in the second division, Kramer joined Borussia Mönchengladbach in July 2013 on a two-year loan.[9] He made his Bundesliga debut on 9 August 2013, starting in midfield for Gladbach in a 3–1 loss to defending champions Bayern Munich.[10] He scored his first goal for Gladbach in the following round of fixtures, netting the club's second goal in a 3–0 victory over Hannover 96.[11] Kramer scored Borussia Mönchengladbach's third goal of a 3–1 victory over 1. FSV Mainz 05 on 3 May 2014, securing the club a place in the Europa League for the following season.[12] In the final league match of the season, Kramer scored his third Bundesliga goal as Gladbach fell to Wolfsburg by a score of 3–1, confirming that Gladbach would finish just behind the Wolves in sixth place.[13]

Kramer returned to Gladbach following his exploits in the 2014 FIFA World Cup, making his season debut on 24 August 2014, coming off the bench and scoring his side's last-minute equalizer in a 1−1 draw with VfB Stuttgart.[14] On 9 November, away to Borussia Dortmund, he scored an own goal from inside the centre circle which gave his opponents a 1–0 victory.[15]

On 22 December 2014, Leverkusen announced Kramer would be returning to Leverkusen from his loan spell at Gladbach in summer 2015 as planned and that his contract had been extended by two further years until 30 June 2019.[16]

International career

Kramer defending against Marcos Rojo in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final.

Shortly before the end of his first Bundesliga season Christoph Kramer was first invited on 8 May 2014 in the senior national team of Germany, when he was nominated as part of a so-called "perspective squad" for the preparation match for the World Cup 2014 in the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg against Poland, as many players could not join because they still had to play for their clubs.[17] In this friendly match on 13 May, he played the full 90 minutes of a goalless draw.[18][19] A day later, he was subsequently nominated for the preliminary squad.[20] He won his second cap for the national side on 1 June, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–2 draw with Cameroon.[21] The following day, Kramer was included by Joachim Löw in Germany's final 23-man squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.[22]

2014 World Cup

Kramer made his first appearance of the tournament in Germany's round of 16 match against Algeria as a 109th-minute substitute for Bastian Schweinsteiger.[23] He started the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final, due to an injury to Sami Khedira minutes before kick off. However, Kramer was forced to leave the game in the first half after taking a hit to the head, and André Schürrle came on to replace him.[24] It was later revealed that Kramer may have suffered a concussion from his collision with Argentine center back Ezequiel Garay.[25] Referee Nicola Rizzoli admitted that 14 minutes after the collision, Kramer came to him, asking "Ref, is this the final?" to which Rizzoli informed Schweinsteiger and Kramer was substituted off.[26]

Career statistics

Club Season League Cup Continental Total Ref.
League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Bayer Leverkusen II 2009–10 Regionalliga West 1 0 — — 1 0 [27]
2010–11 26 0 26 0 [28]
Totals 27 0 27 0 —
Bochum (loan) 2011–12 2. Bundesliga 32 1 3 0 35 1 [29]
2012–13 29 3 3 0 32 3 [30]
Totals 61 4 6 0 67 4 —
Bochum II (loan) 2012–13 Regionalliga West 1 0 — 1 0 [30]
Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) 2013–14 Bundesliga 33 3 1 0 34 3 [31]
2014–15 30 2 3 0 6 0 39 2 [32]
Totals 63 5 4 0 6 0 73 5 —
Bayer Leverkusen 2015–16 Bundesliga 26 0 4 0 12 0 42 0 [33]
Career totals 176 9 14 0 18 0 214 9 —
Last updated: 16 April 2016

Honours

International

Germany

References

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