Benjamin Auer

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Benjamin Auer
Personal information
Full name Benjamin Auer
Date of birth January 11, 1981
Place of birth Landau, Germany
Nickname Benni
Position Striker
Club information
Current club VfL Bochum
Youth clubs
 ?-1988
1988-1996
1996-1999
HSV Landau
FSV Offenbach
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1999-2000
2000-2002
2002-2006
2006-
Karlsruher SC
Mönchengladbach
FSV Mainz 05
VfL Bochum
14 (1)
25 (3)
115 (30)
- (-)
National team**
 ? Germany U21 23 (15)

* Professional club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of June 21, 2006.
** National team caps and goals correct
as of August 6, 2006.

Benjamin Auer (born January 11, 1981 in Landau) is a German footballer who is a centre-forward.

[edit] Career

As a child he played for the HSV Landau, before moving to his first major youth team, FSV Offenbach. At the age of 15 he moved to Kaiserslautern, for whom he played until 1999. He moved to Karlsruher SC where he played for a year, before going to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Auer played 23 times for the German Under-21 team, scoring 15 goals, and played around 60 times in his youth between the ages of 16 and 20. He helped bring Mainz up to the Bundesliga in 2004.

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VfL Bochum - Current Squad

1 Skov-Jensen | 2 Lense | 3 Meichelbeck | 4 Maltritz | 5 Dabrowski | 6 Imhof | 7 Bechmann | 8 Zdebel | 9 Fábio Júnior | 10 Wosz | 11 van Hout | 13 Renno | 14 Iličević | 15 Drsek | 16 Misimović | 17 Butscher | 18 Schröder | 19 Grote | 20 Auer | 21 Trojan | 22 Gekas | 24 Bönig | 25 Rathgeber | 26 Bade | 36 Pallas

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