Daniel Klewer

Daniel Klewer

Daniel Klewer 2006
Personal information
Date of birth	4 March 1977 (1977-03-04) (age 34)
Place of birth	Rostock, East Germany
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1983–1997	FC Hansa Rostock
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1997–2004	FC Hansa Rostock	10	(0)
2004–2011	1. FC Nuremberg	16	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Daniel Klewer (born 4 March 1977 in Rostock, East Germany) is a German former footballer^[1].

Career

Klewer joined the youth team of his hometown-team Hansa Rostock at the age of six. After going through all of their junior squads, he broke into the first-team squad for the first time in the 1997–98 season sitting on the bench as a substitute goalkeeper for several matches. His first-team debut on the pitch, however, did not come until four seasons later. Before that he had served as a first-choice keeper for Rostock's reserve team and a third-string goalkeeper for the Bundesliga squad.

In March 2002 Klewer played his first Bundesliga game after the first and second-choice keepers were out with injury and suspension respectively. Klewer stayed first-choice for the remaining eight games of the 2001–02 season, which saw Rostock stave off relegation. At the beginning of the following season Klewer stepped back behind regular first-choice keeper Matthias Schober but advanced to a second-string position. He only saw action twice more in 2003–04 season before opting to leave Rostock after twenty-one years of playing for the club.^[2]

He joined 1. FC Nuremberg in the summer of 2004 but could not unseat Raphael Schäfer as the starting goalkeeper, playing merely five games in the 2004–05 season when substituting for an injured Schäfer. next season he saw no Bundesliga action at all, playing just twice in DFB-Pokal matches. He reprised his role as replacement goalkeeper once again in the 2006–07 playing in one league game and two cup matches until the end of 2006. In the third round cup match against Unterhaching he saved four penalties in the shoot-out and secured Nuremberg a spot in the quarter finals. He did a tremendous job in the quarter final on 27 February 2007 and saved two penalties against Hanover in the shoot-out and brought his team into the semi-finals of the DFB-Pokal.

Coaching career

On 4 July 2009, it was announced he will work as goalkeeper coach for the 1. FC Nuremberg youth team.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Klewer, Daniel" (in German). kicker.de. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/2007-08/1669/vereinsspieler_daniel-klewer.html. Retrieved 19 August 2010. 
2. ^ "Nürnbergs Coach Hecking plant ohne Charisteas" (in German). Focus. 19 May 2010. http://www.focus.de/sport/fussball/bundesliga1/bundesliga-nuernbergs-coach-hecking-plant-ohne-charisteas_aid_509677.html. Retrieved 13 July 2010. 
3. ^ "Klewer wird Standby-Profi" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 4 July 2010. http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/news/29332/klewer-wird-standby-profi.html. Retrieved 13 July 2010. 

External links

• Daniel Klewer at fussballdaten.de (German)

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Name	Klewer, Daniel
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Date of birth	4 March 1977
Place of birth	Rostock, East Germany
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