Benjamin Lauth
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Benjamin Lauth (born August 8, 1981 in Hausham, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart.
Lauth began his career with TSV 1860 München, where he had played in his youth years. He gradually established himself as their leading striker and was called up into the German national team for the first time in 2003.
In 2004 TSV got relegated, and he moved to Hamburger SV. However, his progress was hampered by a string of nagging injuries, limiting him to only ten appearances in the 2004-05 season. However, he regained his form and earned himself a starting place in the HSV attack for much of the 2005-06 season.
On January 25, 2007, Lauth was loaned to VfB Stuttgart, playing his first Bundesliga game against Arminia Bielefeld on January 30 [1]
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[edit] Accolades
In 2002, Lauth scored the German Goal of the Year (Tor des Jahres) with a spectacular bicycle kick.
[edit] Trivia
Lauth is subject of the song Lauth anhören (a pun of laut anhören, listen loudly) by Sportfreunde Stiller, who are avid Bavarian soccer fans. Lauth was talented is tennis and skiing , at a young age he was offered to be the opportunity to go the young German academy for skiing
[edit] Career stats
| Club | Season | Bundesliga | DFB Cup | Champions League | Total | ||||
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| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| VfB Stuttgart | 2006-07 | ||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
| Hamburg | 2006-07 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2005-06 | 31 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 6 | |||
| 2004-05 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 4 | |||
| Total | |||||||||
| TSV 1860 Munich | 2003-04 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 12 | ||
| 2002-03 | 32 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 16 | |||
| 2001-02 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 61 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 67 | 28 | |||
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[edit] References
- ^ Tactical Formation. Football-Lineups.com. Retrieved on February 6, 2007.
[edit] External links
| VfB Stuttgart - Current Squad |
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1 Hildebrand | 2 Beck | 3 Osorio | 5 Babbel | 6 Meira | 8 Bierofka | 9 Streller | 11 Hitzlsperger | 12 Gerber | 13 Pardo | 14 Farnerud | 15 Boka | 16 Lauth | 17 Delpierre | 18 Cacau | 19 Hilbert | 21 Magnin | 22 Gentner | 23 Heinen | 24 Nehrig | 25 Da Silva | 28 Khedira | 30 Ikeng | 31 Stolz | 33 Gomez | 35 Taşçı | 41 Langer | Manager: Armin Veh |
