Michael Zetterer

Michael Zetterer
Personal information
Full name Michael Zetterer
Date of birth (1995-07-12) 12 July 1995
Place of birth Munich, Germany[1]
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club 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)
National team‡
2014– Germany U20 4 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 November 2015 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)

‡ 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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

Werder Bremen

In January 2015, Zetterer moved to Bundesliga side Werder Bremen.[6] According to media reports, he signed a contract until 2018 and cost a transfer fee of €100,000.[7] He took up the role of second reserve keeper behind Raphael Wolf and Koen Casteels.[8] 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.[9][10]

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.[11]

International career

In August 2014, Zetterer was nominated for the Germany U20 national team for the first time.[12] Thus far he has earned four caps for them.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Player's Profile: Michael Zetterer" (in German). SpVgg Unterhaching. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Player's Profile: Michael Zetterer" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Michael Zetterer - Schneller Profi als erwartet" [Michael Zetterer - Sooner a pro than expected] (in German). Merkur-Online.de. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Unterhaching-Keeper Zetterer will Ruhe ausstrahlen" [Unterhaching keeper Zetterer wants to radiate a sense of calm] (in German). Merkur-Online.de. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Skripnik: Darum wollten wir Zetterer" [Skripnik: That's why we wanted Zetterer] (in German). fussball-vorort.de. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Werder verpflichtet Torhüter-Talent Zetterer / Strebinger nach Regensburg ausgeliehen" [Werder signs goalkeeper talent Zetterer / Strebinger loaned to Regensburg] (in German). SV Werder Bremen. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Torwart-Theater immer irrer" [Fuss about goalkeepers gets crazier and crazier] (in German). Bild. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Werder sign keeper talent Zetterer". Werder Bremen. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "M. Zetterer". Soccerway. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Michael Zetterer » Club matches". Worldfootball. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "Werder Bremen II vs. Chemnitzer FC - 1 November 2015 - Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  12. ↑ "DFB nominiert Zetterer nach" [DFB calls up Zetterer as a late replacement] (in German). SpVgg Unterhaching. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Michael Zetterer » Internationals". Worldfootball. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
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