Michael Zetterer

Michael Zetterer

Personal information
Full name	Michael Zetterer
Date of birth	(1995-07-12) 12 July 1995
Place of birth	Munich, Germany
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Werder Bremen
Number	30
Youth career
0000–2006	DJK Darching
2006–2013	SpVgg Unterhaching
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2015	SpVgg Unterhaching	30	(0)
2015–	Werder Bremen	0	(0)
2015–	Werder Bremen II	8	(0)
International career‡
2014–	Germany U20	4	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 November 2015 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 October 2015

Michael Zetterer (born 12 July 1995) is a German football goalkeeper who plays for Werder Bremen.

Club career

Zetterer started playing football with local DJK Darching in Valley, Bavaria. At the age of eleven, in 2006, he moved to the youth ranks of SpVgg Unterhaching where he passed through all the youth and the senior's reserve team. In December 2012, he signed a professional contract for three years effective 2013 until 2016.

Unterhaching

For the 2013–14 season, Zetterer first served as reserve goalkeeper behind Korbinian Müller. After Müller had shown weaknesses at set pieces, head coach Manuel Baum promoted Zetterer to the new regular goalkeeper. He made his debut on 1 March 2014, in a 4–2 loss away at Hallescher FC. Although Müller returned once between the sheets, Zetterer started in eleven of the last twelve matches of the season.

In the 2014–15 season, Zetterer remained Unterhaching's regular goalkeeper, the youngest of his kind in the 3. Liga. His performances drew the interest of the Germany national youth football team and several Bundesliga clubs.

Werder Bremen

In January 2015, Zetterer moved to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen. According to media reports, he signed a contract until 2018 and cost a transfer fee of €100,000. He took up the role of second reserve keeper behind Raphael Wolf and Koen Casteels. In the second half of the 2014–2015 season, Zetterer had seven appearances with Werder Bremen's reserve team contributing to its promotion from the fourth tier Regionalliga to the 3. Liga.

With Wolf injured Zetterer was second goalkeeper of the first team for most of the first half of the 2015–2016 season. He made his first appearance of the season in the reserve team's 3–2 defeat of Chemnitzer FC on 1 November 2015.

International career

In August 2014, Zetterer was nominated for the Germany U20 national team for the first time. Thus far he has earned four caps for them.