Stefan Kiessling: player statistics and achievements

Stefan Kiessling is a famous German football player,It protects the colors of Leverkusen's Bayer. He was born in 1984, and he started playing football at the age of 4, when he went to the sports academy of Bamberg.

"Nuremberg"

In 2001, Stefan Kiessling became a footballer of "Nuremberg". As part of the new club for several years, the German could not get into the main team, so he was forced to compete in the youth team.

Excellent performances did not go unnoticed. In 2004, Stefan became a full-fledged player of the main Nuremberg squad. For the 2004/05 season. in the Bundesliga forward played 27 matches and scored 3 goals.

A year later, Kiessling improved his performance. In 27 German championship matches, young Stefan scored 10 goals, which attracted the attention of the coaching staff of one of the leaders of German football. This team was Leverkusen's Bayer.

Bayer (2006-2008)

In 2006, the "pharmacists" bought the German contract. Until 2009, Kissling's performance was limp. In the 2006/07 season, he scored ten accurate blows, a year later, the German was able to hit the gate of rivals 7 times. In the 2007/08 season, on the account of Kissling in the national championship was 9 goals, and in the Champions League - 6. A year later Stefan in the Bundesliga scored 8 goals.

In 2008, the striker of "Bayer" played 3 games inCup of the country, in which he was able to excel one goal scored. Thus, for the first 3 years in the Leverkusen club Stefan Kiessling became the author of 31 goals in all tournaments. But the main achievements were still ahead.

Bayer (2009-2017)

In the 2009/10 season, Stefan first made the specialists talk about themselves. In 30 matches of the Bundesliga he managed to excel 20 times. However, the next season forced many to forget about the forward, as his performance fell significantly - 7 goals in 20 Bundesliga matches, not a single accurate blow in 6 matches of the Champions League.

The drought did not last long, fortunately forfootball player and his numerous fans. In the season of 2011/12. Kissling sixteen times distinguished himself in the Championship of the country. Despite the fact that the striker was able to regain confidence, he began to score again goals in the domestic championship, in the Champions League, the cases of the scorer did not stick. In the eight meetings that "Bayer" played in the most prestigious club tournament in Europe, the striker could not excel at all.

Season 2012/13 years. became the key to Kissling's career. Statistics Stefan in the Bundesliga was impressive. He scored 25 goals in 34 matches of the Championship of the country, another German sent to the gate of his rivals in the Champions League and the German Cup. Many European grandees wanted to get a striker, but the player decided to stay in the "Bayer".

The following season became less effective forplayer. In the Champions League the goalkeeper of the Leverkusen club scored twice as well as in the national cup. Most of his goals (15) Stefan scored in the Bundesliga. And in the course of this season, the European grandees tried to acquire a football player. Photo Stefan Kiessling could be seen on the pages of authoritative football tabloid England, Spain, Italy and France, but the player still decided to stay in the German "Bayer".

Years later, the football player himself began to doubt thecorrectness of its decision. In the following 3 seasons, he significantly reduced in terms of effectiveness. Kissling was able to score only 31 goals in more than 100 matches for the club in all tournaments.

In the summer of 2017, Stefan was injured, due towhich missed the pre-season training, then said that in 2018 he will finish his career. In the Bundesliga season 2017/18 years. the striker never came out in the start. On his account, only two appearances on the field from the bench and 21 minutes played.

Achievements

During his career, Stefan Kiessling acceptedparticipated in 379 matches of the Bundesliga, 70 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup matches, and also played 20 games in the German Cup. In these matches, the forward scored 161 goals, 138 of which fell on the German championship.

In 2006, Stefan played 3 games in the youthEuropean Championship. The excellent performance in the 2009/10 season caused Kissling's invitation to the German national team for the 2010 World Cup, which was held in South Africa. On the mundiale, the German played only two games, did not excel with the resultant actions, but at the end of the tournament he was able to leave South Africa with a bronze medal.

Stephan Kiessling's personal reward is only one. This is the title of the best scorer of the German Bundesliga in the 2012/13 season, when the striker of the Leverkusen "Bayer" scored twenty-five goals.