Jake Hirst

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Jake Hirst
Personal information
Date of birth (1996-05-05) 5 May 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Bad Nauheim, Germany
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Eintracht Frankfurt
TSG Wieseck
TSG Ober-Wöllstadt
FSV Frankfurt
TSG Ober-Wöllstadt
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2017–2018 TSV Bad Nauheim
2018–2019 Kickers Offenbach 29 (9)
2019–2020 FC Gießen 17 (5)
2020–2023 FSV Frankfurt 79 (25)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:48, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Jake Hirst (born 5 May 1996) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Early and personal life

Hirst was born in Bad Nauheim, Germany, [1] to English parents from Yorkshire. [2] His parents were tennis coaches, and as a youth Hirst worked as a coach at their tennis academy. [2] Hirst did not know any German until beginning kindergarten. [2] He is fluent in English and German, speaking both with a Yorkshire accent. [2] He considers himself English. [2]

Career

Hirst began his career with Eintracht Frankfurt, but was released by the club at the age of 15 due to problems with his knees. [2] He then played for TSG Wieseck, TSG Ober-Wöllstadt (twice), FSV Frankfurt, TSV Bad Nauheim and Kickers Offenbach. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

In August 2019 he signed for FC Gießen. [7] In July 2020 he returned to FSV Frankfurt. [8] [9] [10] [11] During his time at Frankfurt he lived in Bad Nauheim and commuted to Frankfurt. [12]

Hirst retired at the end of the 2022–23 season. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jake Hirst at Soccerway. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sean Cole (21 December 2018). "Jake Hirst: Top scoring Englishman in Germany". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  3. ↑ "Profile" (in German). FUPA. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Jake Hirst: Vier Ligen übersprungen". www.fussball.de.
  5. ↑ Osthessen, Torgranate. "Jake Hirst: "Meine Ambitionen liegen eher im Tennis"". Torgranate Osthessen.
  6. ↑ KG, VRM Mittelhessen GmbH & Co (28 February 2021). "Ex-Gießener Jake Hirst bestraft kurze Schläfrigkeit". www.mittelhessen.de.
  7. ↑ Germany, hessenschau de, Frankfurt (30 August 2019). "Regionalliga: Jake Hirst wechselt von Offenbach nach Gießen". hessenschau.de.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ KG, Gießener Anzeiger Verlags GmbH & Co (25 July 2020). "Jake Hirst wechselt zum FSV Frankfurt - Usinger Anzeiger". www.usinger-anzeiger.de.
  9. ↑ "Stürmer Jake Hirst heuert beim FSV Frankfurt an". HIT RADIO FFH.
  10. ↑ KG, VRM Mittelhessen GmbH & Co (25 July 2020). "Jake Hirst wechselt zum FSV Frankfurt". www.giessener-anzeiger.de.
  11. ↑ "Jake Hirst verlässt FC Gießen - und wechselt zu einem Ligakonkurrenten". giessener-allgemeine.de. 24 July 2020.
  12. ↑ "Hirst: "Ich komme näher"". wetterauer-zeitung.de. 1 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "Abschied: Warum Jake Hirst seine Profi-Laufbahn mit 27 Jahren beendet". www.fnp.de. 26 May 2023.


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