Patrick Helmes
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| Patrick Helmes | ||
| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Patrick Helmes | |
| Date of birth | March 1, 1984 | |
| Place of birth | Cologne, West Germany | |
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | 1. FC Köln | |
| Number | 9 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2003-2005 2005–2008 2008– |
Sportfreunde Siegen Köln Bayer Leverkusen |
51 (22) 65 (35) 0 (0) |
| National team2 | ||
| 2007–present | Germany | 5 (0) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Patrick Helmes (born March 1, 1984 in Cologne, West Germany) is a German football striker. Until September 2007 he was captain of 1. FC Köln.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Youth
As a youth player, Helmes was active in local clubs in Freudenberg, Westphalia and Siegen. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1997, at the age of 13. However, he was regarded as being too unstable and sent away in 2000. He subsequently went back to Sportfreunde Siegen, where he had already spent some time as a youth player. In 2004/05, he scored 21 goals for his team in the third division, which made him top scorer of the league, helping his team to promotion to the second division.
[edit] Köln and national team
He then joined his old club Köln again, where he made his Bundesliga debut in 2005 and scored his first goal in his second game, against rivals Bayer Leverkusen. After his club was promoted to the second division, Helmes became one of the most important players for his side, scoring 7 times in his first 5 games of the season and keeping Köln at the top of the table. However, he scored the last of those goals with a broken foot. The injury kept him out of the squad for the following 4 months, during which his team performed extremely poorly and lost all chances to return to the first division.
Six weeks after his comeback, Helmes was nominated for the national team for the first time by Joachim Löw. He made his international debut for Germany in a friendly against Denmark on March 28, 2007, being substituted for Jan Schlaudraff in 80th minute. He made two more short appearances afterwards, before he was nominated for the starting squad for the first time on September 12, 2007 in a friendly against Romania held at RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, in which he was joined by fellow Cologne local hero Lukas Podolski. He was included in Löw's 26 man provisional Euro 2008 squad but was eventually left out in favour of Oliver Neuville.
Even though he confirmed that he will play for Bayer Leverkusen in 2008 and in fact wanted to move there for the 2007/08-season, coach Christoph Daum named him captain of the squad in summer 2007.
Helmes' nickname is Moppel, a German diminutive for pug, often used to describe a chubby kid.[1]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Career stats at fussballdaten.de (German)
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