Malte Metzelder

Malte Metzelder
Personal information
Full name	Jan Malte Metzelder
Date of birth	19 May 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth	Haltern, West Germany
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Centre back
Youth career
1986–1997	TuS Haltern
1997–1998	SpVgg Erkenschwick
1998–2001	Preußen Münster
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2003	Preußen Münster
2003–2005	Borussia Dortmund II
2003–2005	Borussia Dortmund
2005–2007	VfR Aalen
2007–2014	Ingolstadt 04
Total
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jan Malte Metzelder (born 19 May 1982) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.^[1]

He appeared in the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund, but spent most of his career in the lower leagues.

Football career

Born in Haltern, North Rhine-Westphalia, Metzelder made his professional debut with SC Preußen Münster in 2001, and two years later moved to Borussia Dortmund to play alongside his older brother Christoph. However, he appeared very rarely for the first team, amassing only nine Bundesliga appearances – all in 2003–04 – and adding two minutes in a 2–1 away win against FK Austria Wien for the UEFA Cup.^[2]

In 2005, Metzelder left Dortmund and joined VfR Aalen in the Regionalliga Süd (then third division). Two years later he stayed in that tier, being instrumental in FC Ingolstadt 04's promotion to the second level in his first season; he left the latter club in July 2014 at the age of 32, after no competitive appearances whatsoever in his last two years.

Personal life

Metzelder's older brother, Christoph, was also a footballer (and a centre back), and both played for Borussia Dortmund, with his sibling also playing three years at Real Madrid and representing Germany on about 50 occasions, helping the team finish second at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.^[3]

References

^ "Metzelder, Malte" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
^ "Dortmund mit Kampf zum Sieg" [Dortmund with hard-fought win] (in German). kicker. 24 September 2003. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
^ "Ein neues Leben – mit Inhalt" [A new life – with contentment]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 16 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

External links

Malte Metzelder at fussballdaten.de (in German)
Malte Metzelder at Soccerway

[1] "Metzelder, Malte" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 19 July 2011.

[2] "Dortmund mit Kampf zum Sieg" [Dortmund with hard-fought win] (in German). kicker. 24 September 2003. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

[3] "Ein neues Leben – mit Inhalt" [A new life – with contentment]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). 16 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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