Nicolai Müller

Nicolai Müller

Müller in August 2013
Personal information
Full name	Nicolai Müller
Date of birth	25 September 1987
Place of birth	Lohr am Main, West Germany
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Winger
Club information
Current team	Hamburger SV
Number	27
Youth career
	Eintracht Frankfurt
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2006–2010	Greuther Fürth II	64	(16)
2006–2011	Greuther Fürth	69	(13)
2008–2009	→ SV Sandhausen (loan)	18	(5)
2011	1. FSV Mainz 05 II	1	(1)
2011–2014	1. FSV Mainz 05	81	(21)
2014–	Hamburger SV	50	(8)
National team^‡
2013–	Germany	2	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 March 2016. † Appearances (goals) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 June 2013

Nicolai Müller (born 25 September 1987) is a German footballer who plays as a winger for Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga.^[1][2]

In June 2015, Müller's scored a 115th-minute winner, which helped save Hamburg from its first ever relegation, and is considered to be one of the most important goals ever scored in the club's 128-year history.

Club career

Early career

Müller began his career with TSV Wernfeld aged 11. In 1998, he joined Eintracht Frankfurt who had just won the 2. Bundesliga. He played for Die Adler until 2003, when he joined Spielvereinigung Greuther Fürth.

Greuther Fürth

In 2006, he moved up to Greuther Fürth II in the Bayernliga. He would play for Fürth's reserves for the next 3 years until midway through the 2008/09 season, when he was loaned out to the 3. Liga team SV Sandhausen, who he helped to an 8th-place finish in the first ever 3. Liga campaign. For the next season, Müller returned to Greuther Fürth. He finally broke into the first team with the Cloverleaves in the 2009/10 season, and continued to play for the first team in 2010/11. This would be his last year with Fürth, though they finished 4th, as at the end of the season, Muller joined 1. FSV Mainz 05.

1. FSV Mainz 05

Müller signed a contract lasting until 2015 with the Bundesliga club.^[3] His debut came against Hannover 96 in August as a substitute for Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting in the last minute. His first start came 3 games later against Borussia Dortmund and he scored his first Bundesliga goal.

Hamburger SV

On 6 August 2014, Müller joined Hamburg signing a four-year contract. His debut for HSV came on the third matchday against Hannover 96 in the 2–0 loss at the HDI-Arena. After the game, HSV coach Mirko Slomka left the club and Josef Zinnbauer took charge for the next match against Bayern München, in which Müller started and received his first booking for a 59th minute foul on Dante.

Müller scored HSV's first goal of the 2014/15 season when he equalised against Eintract Frankfurt on September 28, 2014. HSV eventually lost the game to a Lucas Piazon free kick in the last minute.

HSV avoided relegation through the relegation play off for the second successive season in Müller's debut year, as he came on as a substitute and scored a 115th-minute winner during the relegation play-off game that took place at the end of the Bundesliga season, against Karlsruher SC.^[4] Müller's goal ensured that HSV would stay in the Bundesliga for the next year, keeping their unique status as the only team to have played in the Bundesliga for every year since its formation, as they won 3–2 on aggregate.^[5]

International career

On 29 May 2013, he made his international debut in a friendly game against Ecuador in Boca Raton, Florida, as a last minute substitute for Lukas Podolski.

References

1. "Nicolai Müller". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
2. "Nicolai Müller". bundesliga.com. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
3. Mainz 05: Nicolai Müller von SpVgg Greuther Fürth verpflichtet – Soto verlängert; Artikel der Allgemeinen Zeitung. Rhein-Main-Presse.
4. "Hamburg avoid Bundesliga relegation with play-off win". BBC Sport. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32969611

External links

• Nicolai Müller profile at Fussballdaten