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CampeõesDoMundo
28 Jul 2007, 06:17 AM
Can anyone with an in-depth knowledge or is an avid follower of youth football afford me some wisdom on the following players? i.e. Hertha BSC Berlin's Damir Coric & Lennart Hartmann; FC Kaiserslautern's Boris Becker (not the infamous tennis legend http://www.soccer24-7.com/forum/images/smilies/bluebigrazz.gif) and Borussia Dortmund's Marco Stiepermann.
The little that I know about Coric is that he is the current German U16 national team captain and plays in defense like Boris Becker does but at only 1.7 m tall, he can't be expected to be a central defender right? Given that Coric is right footed, is he a traditional right fullback like Clemens Fritz is or a right-footed left back ala a Lahm? Also all that I know about Becker is that he is a powerful defender but is he a central defender? What about Lennart Hartmann & Marco Stiepermann then? Are they defensive midfielders, central attacking midfielders, wingers (if they are, which wing i.e. left or right wing or both)? Can they also play as strikers? How highly rated are each of them respectively?
"Eisenfuß" Eilts
28 Jul 2007, 06:29 PM
I don´t know any of the players, but google helps sometimes. ;)
At the Hertha homepage there is an old interview (2004) with
Lennart Hartmann (link (http://www.herthabsc.de/index.php?id=9266)).
He describes himself as a technical player with good preparation skills
(he prepared some goals). He played as a striker, but then moved to
offensive midfield. The club of his dreams is Real Madrid.
Some data about him can be found in this BS thread (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10660958).
About Coric you can also found something at a Hertha page,
he ´s described as a player with good pace and very good
tackling skills.
btw:
Clemens Fritz is no traditional right back,
in his youth and at Erfurt and Karlsruhe he played
as a striker, moved to Leverkusen and played there first
as a midfielder and then was taught to play as a defender.
In Bremen he became a right back with both,
defensive and offensive skills,
and he made it last season into the German NT.
CampeõesDoMundo
28 Jul 2007, 08:40 PM
I don´t know any of the players, but google helps sometimes. ;)
At the Hertha homepage there is an old interview (2004) with
Lennart Hartmann (link (http://www.herthabsc.de/index.php?id=9266)).
He describes himself as a technical player with good preparation skills
(he prepared some goals). He played as a striker, but then moved to
offensive midfield. The club of his dreams is Real Madrid.
Some data about him can be found in this BS thread (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10660958).
About Coric you can also found something at a Hertha page,
he ´s described as a player with good pace and very good
tackling skills.
btw:
Clemens Fritz is no traditional right back,
in his youth and at Erfurt and Karlsruhe he played
as a striker, moved to Leverkusen and played there first
as a midfielder and then was taught to play as a defender.
In Bremen he became a right back with both,
defensive and offensive skills,
and he made it last season into the German NT.
Point taken about Fritz, "Eisenfuß" Eilts and I'm very much a google person. The things I google for and extent I go to (i.e. the number of pages) can astound most people. E.g. Hertha's official site was one of the 1st results returned for any searches on "Damir Coric".
The thing is not so much that I do not know how to google (if I can know www.google.com/linux and www.google.com/bsd and use them for things specific to GNU/Linux and BSD OSes and distros, you can bet that I know how to ;) ) but 1.) I'm not a German and thus the language barrier (many pages do not translate nicely either with google's own translating tool or altavista's babelfish) and 2.) If you and others are to take another look at my original post/questions, you will know that what I want are very specific, very detailed information on the players' true position/s i.e. center back, right back or left back; or if he is an offensive midfielder, is he a left winger, right winger, central attacking midfielder, etc? i.e. Not just mere, simplistic mention that player X is a defender or midfielder. And if the player can play in a multiple of positions i.e. more than one and if so what are these other positions?
Descriptions like he is "a technical player with good preparation skills" or that he is "a player with good pace and very good tackling skills" is while helpful for background info is irrelevant to the main motivations as defined in my original questions. So anyone here can help?