<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Sports Weekly All-Media Reporter Huang Sijun</h1>
Less than a year ago, the 29-year-old 2014 World Cup winner Schueller suddenly announced that he was hanging up his boots, surprising fans all over the world. And yesterday, another 29-year-old German player "left early" - midfielder Jabeau, wearing the number 10 shirt of Bielefeld, announced that the agreement was terminated and immediately hung up his boots, "My body, especially my knees, can no longer bear the load." ”
The 29-year-old Jabo hung up his boots due to injury.
Many fans are unfamiliar with the name Jabeau, and his career achievements are not high, but he has won 3 O1 and 2 Austrian Cup titles with Red Bull Salzburg, and helped Bielefeld return to the Bundesliga as a Bundesliga champion last season. But in the history of German football in the past decade or so, Jabo has a very important identity - he is the captain of the German U17 team that won the 2009 local U17 European Youth Championship.
That team eventually emerged from Ter Stegen, Mario Götze (the "golden player" of the tournament, that is, the best player), Mustafi, Leno and Platenhardt, five international players who later represented the German national team in international competitions, of which Götze and Mustafi became World Cup champions in 2014, and Ter Stegen is already one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Undoubtedly, the team coached by Pezaivoli is one of the German U17 teams with the highest success rate in history.
12 years ago, Jabo led the German U17 team to win the European Youth Championship as captain.
In addition to the 5 elites we are very familiar with, such as Ter Stegen and Götze, there are several other players in that U17 team who have developed quite well in professional football, of course, some of them have not been able to play in the end, and can only mix in the amateur league, and even decided to end their careers earlier than Jabo. As Jabeau retires "with a heavy heart", we might as well take a look at the current situation of this batch of U17 European champions.
The other two "big country feet"
In addition to Ter Stegen, Götze and other 5 people who were later selected for the German national team, there were 2 other players in the U17 team who later became "big country footballers", one of which was Marler from Mönchengladbach, but he chose not Germany, but Turkey. The Kassel-born Turkish-born man played only 44 minutes off the bench in the tournament 12 years ago, before rising from U18 to U21 and competing as a substitute for the 2015 U21 European Youth Championship.
Marler, who was selected for germany's U17 to U21 teams, eventually became the Turkish international.
In 2011, Mahler left Borussia Möncheng to switch to Mainz 05, where he debuted. Under Tuchel's nurturing, he grew year by year, eventually becoming the core of Mainz's midfield under Swiss coach Martin Schmidt – a 2015/16 record card of 11 goals and 4 assists in 34 Bundesliga games. It was also in that season that he decided to join the Turkish national team, making 25 appearances for the "Star Moon Army" so far, participating in Europe 2016.
However, since moving to Wolfsburg in January 2017 at a high price of 12.5 million euros, Mahler's development has immediately turned from prosperity to decline. He was unable to show his talents at Wolfsburg, which had to rely on the play-offs for two consecutive years at that time, and quickly became a "non-performing asset", and was not reused in the second half of last season's loan to the promoted Ma Berlin League, and finally terminated his contract with Wolfsburg half a year earlier at the beginning of this year and joined the Turkish Super League team Trabzon. It's just that he still can't stop the decline in the half season of the Tuchao, and it seems that he can never go back to the time of Mainz. His worth has plummeted from his peak of 13 million (February 2017) to 1.9 million today, and he certainly cannot continue to be selected for the Turkish national team.
Malault's performance remained subdued after joining Trabzon at the beginning of the year.
Another player who later had the status of a big power was Abu Bakarr Kargbo from Hertha Berlin. The black centre-forward was born in Bo, a small African country in Sierra Leone. In March 2018, he was also selected for the Sierra Leone national team, making his debut in a 4-0 away friendly defeat to Iran. However, this eventually became his only appearance in the national team.
Calbo was also a substitute at the 2009 Under-17 Championship, also with just two appearances. But compared to Marle, who has been playing in the top flight, his career is much bleaker. Unable to gain a foothold in the Herta pro team, he traveled to England (Stoke City reserve) and Austria (Lustenau), but neither played in the top flight, not even in the Olympic Second Division. Since returning to Germany in early 2015, he has been in the 4th division of the regional league, playing for Black and White Redden, Ledinghausen, Berlin Victoria, Atlético Berlin and Offenbach.
Karbo now plays for the Offenbach kicker, who played briefly for The Lei.
In his last two seasons at Athletic Berlin, Karbo has been at his best, scoring 27 goals and nine assists in 45 regional league games in the Northeast Division. Unfortunately, shortly after switching to Offenbach last summer, he tore his cruciate ligament during the pre-season preparation period and did not make his comeback on the bench until the start of this month, when he finally came back on the bench against Erfusberg.
Careers are over before they even begin
Of that U17 team, there are worse than Karbo – Hamburg centre-back Robert Labus, Cologne right-back Bienvenue Basala-Mazana and Bayer Leverkusen right-back Niko Opper have not really played in the professional league.
Rabbs played in the American College League for Eked College.
At that tournament, Rabs, also from Hamburg, was paired with Mustafi as the main centre-back. However, when Mustafi decided to go abroad early and succeeded, Rabs gradually disappeared in Hamburg. He played for Hamburg II until the end of the 2012/13 season when he lost his job. In early 2014, he joined Austrian Second Division side Kapfenberg, but was unemployed again after just half a season and did not play a single official game. His career as a professional player ended before it even began. Labus went to Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he studied and played football, and now works as a soccer coach in Hawaii.
Bassala Mazana, who played the main right-back at that tournament, has also hung up his boots. Like Captain Jabo, Bassara-Mazana is from Cologne and is also of German-born descendant of the Democratic Congo. As early as the 2011/12 season, Basara Mazana was loaned to the Austrian League side Reed and played in the professional league early, but after returning to Cologne after the end of the loan, he could only represent the second team in the regional league and gradually sank. After leaving Cologne in the summer of 2014, his career was basically over.
Bassala Mazana (right) returned to Cologne to be cheered by fans after becoming U17 European champions with Jabo.
Bassala Mazzana then briefly played for Portuguese amateur team Alcobaça before returning to at Athletic Berlin in the summer of 2017, where he played just one Game of the Berlin Cup. At one point in the second half of last season, he appeared on the squad of Viktoria Arnoldsweiler, a Tier 5 side, and then there was no more.
Opal, who now plays for Dreiaisi.
As for Opal, who was a substitute for Basara Mazana at that tournament, it was not much better. He left Bayersberg in 2012 and played a season in the Bundesliga (5 appearances, scoring 1 goal), the highest league he has ever played in and the only professional league he has ever played. Since then, he has played for Aachen and Drei aishi, playing in the amateur leagues of the 4th and 5th divisions for a long time. Today, he is still on Dreiaishi's list. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, amateur football in Germany has almost completely stopped, and Oper has not played this season.
Scheidhauer (second from right) joined amateur team Foysfeld last year.
The main right winger, Scheid Hall, who played in the Bundesliga at the beginning of his career (Bochum in 2012/13 and Duisburg in 2015/16), has since become worse and worse, unable to play in Schalke 04, and later played for Cottbus for a year and a half. Last summer, he joined The 6th League side Forsfeld, which caused a sensation, but it also meant that he had ended his professional career.
Captain with Bremen Gemini
In addition to the above 6 elite and 5 amateur players, the remaining 7 U17 European champions are basically hovering in the Bundesliga relegation, Bundesliga, Bundesliga and non-mainstream top leagues, and Jabo is the most representative of them. After failing to gain a foothold in the Cologne pro team, he went to Karlsruhe and played two outstanding seasons in the Bundesliga. In 2014/15, Karlsruhe finished third in the Bundesliga and played hamburg in the Bundesliga relegation play-offs. The first leg was drawn 1-1 between the two sides. In the second leg, it was Jabo, who came off the bench, who opened the record in the 78th minute for Karlsruhe, who played at home. However, Hamburg were equalised in stoppage time by Marcelo Díaz with a direct free-kick. In the 115th minute of extra time, Nikolai Müller killed Karlsruhe.
Jabo opened the scoring for Karlsruhe in the second leg of the 2015 Bundesliga promotion play-offs.
After Karlsruhe's upgrade failed, Jabo switched to The Austrian overlord Red Bull Salzburg. But shortly after joining, he suffered a serious knee injury, which was directly reimbursed for the entire season, and also laid the foundation for being forced to hang up his boots at the age of 29. After returning from injury, he struggled to get a chance to play in Salzburg, so he returned to the Bundesliga on loan in the winter window of 2016/17, playing for Bielefeld for the first time. After returning to Salzburg, Jabo finally played the main force under Roze, but still suffered minor injuries.
In the winter window of the 2018/19 season, Jabo returned to Bielefeld with a permanent transfer. Last season, he played the role of the main rotation player during the team's promotion and contributed 4 goals. In a 1–0 home win over Hertha Berlin on 10 January this year, Jabo scored his first Bundesliga goal and his only Bundesliga goal. The month's 3-away loss to Cologne became the last appearance of Jabeau's career.
Against Hertha Berlin on 10 January, Jabor scored his only bundesliga goal of his career.
The team's main centre-forward and top scorer of the tournament (3 goals, tied with Casteigno in the Netherlands) Lennart Te, who played in a career similar situation to Jabo. The Werder Bremen player was unable to gain a foothold in the first team after his debut, so he switched to St. Pauli in the summer of 2012. After four seasons in the Bundesliga, he regained his parent team's appreciation and returned to Weser Stadium on a free basis in the summer of 2016. But it turned out that his strength really did not meet the requirements of the Bundesliga. In half a season, he made only six appearances in the Bundesliga, the only gain was a substitute equaliser at home to Wolfsburg, and was finally eliminated by Gebry Selassie in stoppage time. It was Lennart Tee's Bundesliga debut and most likely the only Bundesliga goal. Half a season later, he went on loan to St. Pauli and then to Venlo in the Eredivisie.
During his time at Fernlad, Lennart Te made a headline – he donated his own stem cells to save the life of a cancer patient, so he couldn't compete against Eindhoven. After the matter was widely reported through the media, it vigorously promoted the development of stem cell donation in the Netherlands. And this act of kindness also earned Lennart Tee the 2018 FIFA Fair Play Award. At the time, Venlo said: "We pride ourselves on Lennart Tee and his helpfulness because sometimes football is just a small thing. ”
For donating stem cells to save lives, Lennart Te was awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award in 2018.
In the summer of 2018, Lennart Tey terminated his contract with Bremen a year early and moved to the Turkish Super League to promote MaelZurum, but returned to the Dutch League six months later to join Zwolle. Last summer, Lennart Thi moved to Sparta Rotterdam. Meanwhile, Götze, whose contract with Borussia Dortmund expired, joined Eindhoven. No one ever imagined that the two cores of the German U17 team that beat the Netherlands in 2009 and won the cup would one day reunite in the Dutch First Division.
Just concluded the season, Lennart Te played at the highest level of his career, making 34 regular-season appearances in the Eredivisie and scoring 14 goals (plus three assists), tied for 8th in the top scorers list with Ajax's forward core Tadić and high school striker Henk Fairman, who played for St. Pauli.
Bremen gemini Lennart Thi (left) with Teringx.
In the 2009 Under-17 European Youth Championship final against the Netherlands, Lennart Tee equalised 1-1 with a header in the 34th minute. Entering extra time, another Bremen player, Terlinks, scored a direct free-kick in the 97th minute. Unfortunately, the pair of "Bremen Gemini" ultimately failed to gain a foothold in the parent team.
Compared to Lennart Ty, who can also play well in the Bundesliga and The Eredivisie, the Terinks, who plays as an attacking midfielder, has a worse chance. After two seasons in the Bundesliga with Bremen as a substitute, he moved to the then Bundesliga promotion Mafiert in the winter window of the 2012/13 season, but still could not play. Luckily, he scored the only goal of his Bundesliga career in the finale of the season in a 3-1 away defeat to Augsburg.
The last club Trinx (left) played for was Schweinfurt.
After being relegated to the Bundesliga with Fürth, Terrinx played a good game for a season before sinking. In the summer of 2015, he moved to Hungary's Ferenc City, coached by former German international Dor, and spent two years as a substitute with the team to win 1 league and 2 cup titles. After returning home, Trinx played for Chemnitz in the Bundesliga and Bavaria division club Schweinfurt in the regional league. In the first round of the 2018/19 DFB-Pokal, Schweinfurt lost 2-0 at home to Schalke 04 and came on as a substitute in the 61st minute. After leaving Schweinfurt in the summer of 2019, Teringx disappeared into the sea of people.
Matthias Zimmermann represented Düsseldorf for 2 seasons in the Bundesliga.
In addition, the main left winger Buchtmann of the U17 team, the main back Matthias Zimmermann, the substitute centre-back Nauber and the substitute winger Jan Zee (who changed his wife's surname to Schwenck after marriage in 2019) have all played in the Bundesliga this season, playing for St. Pauli, Dusseldorf, Sandhausen and Brunswick respectively. Among them, Zimmerman, who can play both the back and the right gate, has been the most successful, playing 68 games in the Bundesliga for Düsseldorf in the past two seasons.
2009 UEFA Euro 17 Germany squad:
Number/Player (Club at the time) - > Club Today (National Team Resume)
No. 1 Ter Stegen (Mönchengladbach) - > Barcelona (Germany 0 goals in 25 games)
No. 2 Bassara Mazana (Cologne) - > retired
No. 3 Platenhardt (Nuremberg) – hertha > Berlin (Germany 0 goals in 7 games)
No. 4 Rabbs (Hamburg) - retired >
No. 5 Mustafi (Hamburg) - > Schalke 04 (Germany, 2 goals in 20 games)
No. 6 Nauber (Bayer Leverkusen) – > T.C. Sandhausen
No. 7 Buchtman (Liverpool) - > Deuts in The Bundesliga Saint Pauli
No. 8 Jabo (Cologne) - > retired
No. 9 Lennart Ti (Werder Bremen) - > Spartan Rotterdam
No.10 Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund) – > Eindhoven PSV in the Eredivisie (Germany 17 goals in 63 games)
No. 11 Karbo (Hertha Berlin) - > 4th Offenbach kicker (Sierra Leone 0 goals per game)
No. 12 Leno (Stuttgart) - > Arsenal (Germany 0 goals in 8 games)
No. 13 Oper (Bayer Leverkusen) – > 5th Class Drei aisch
No. 14 Maller (Mönchengladbach) - > Turkish super Trabzon (Turkish team 1 goal in 25 games)
No. 17 Janzer/Stevanck (Stuttgart) – > Bundesliga Brunswick
18 Matthias Zimmermann (Karlsruhe) - >Deser Düsseldorf
19th Trinex (Werder Bremen) - > retired
20th Scheidhal (Wolfsburg) – > 6th Class Forsfeld