Lars Stindl

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Lars Stindl
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Stindl lining up for Germany in 2017
Personal information
Full name Lars Edi Stindl [1]
Date of birth (1988-08-26) 26 August 1988 (age 36) [1]
Place of birth Speyer, West Germany
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) [2]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, forward
Youth career
1991–2000 TSV Wiesental
2000–2007 Karlsruher SC
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007–2010 Karlsruher SC II 49 (11)
2007–2010 Karlsruher SC 56 (13)
2010–2015 Hannover 96 131 (19)
2015–2023 Borussia Mönchengladbach 222 (62)
2023–2024 Karlsruher SC 24 (4)
Total482(109)
International career
2007 Germany U20 3 (0)
2009 Germany U21 1 (0)
2017–2018 Germany 11 (4)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
FIFA Confederations Cup
Winner 2017 Russia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lars Edi Stindl (born 26 August 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a attacking midfielder. He could also play as a forward.

Contents

Stindl represented the Germany national team from 2017 to 2018. He scored the only goal in the final of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup against Chile to ensure Germany's first ever title. [3]

Club career

Stindl training with Hannover in 2013 Stindl, Lars H96 13-14 (4).JPG
Stindl training with Hannover in 2013

Born in Speyer, Stindl began his career in the youth teams for TSV Wiesental and joined a similar setup at Karlsruher SC in summer 2000. [4] He started his professional career with Karlsruher SC, making his first appearance on 15 March 2008 in the Bundesliga. He was substituted on in the 81st minute in a 1–0 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt. On 29 November 2008, Stindl scored his first Bundesliga goal against Hannover 96. In February 2010, he announced his intention to leave Karlsruher SC. On 16 March 2010, his transfer to Hannover 96 was confirmed. [5]

On 25 March 2015 it was confirmed that Stindl would move to Borussia Mönchengladbach for the 2015–16 season. [6]

On 8 August 2015, he marked his competitive debut by scoring a brace in a 4–1 win at FC St. Pauli in the first round of the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal. [7]

Stindl was confirmed as Gladbach's new captain on 1 August 2016 after the retirement of previous captain Martin Stranzl and the transfer of vice-captain Granit Xhaka to Arsenal. [8]

On 23 February 2017, Stindl scored a hat-trick at ACF Fiorentina's Stadio Artemio Franchi, as Borussia overturned a 3–0 aggregate deficit to qualify for the UEFA Europa League Round of 16. [9]

On 15 December 2020, Stindl scored a hat-trick against Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. Two of the goals came after the 90th minute. [10]

In April 2023, Gladbach confirmed that Stindl would depart the club at the end of the 2022–23 season, after eight years, following the expiration of his contract. [11] [12]

On 28 April 2023, Karlsruher SC announced that Stindl would rejoin his boyhood club at the end of the 2022–23 season. On 11 August 2023, he scored his first goal for the club in the first round of the DFB-Pokal against 1. FC Saarbrücken, nevertheless his side got knocked out of the competition.

On 28 March 2024, Stindl announced that he would retire at the end of the season. [13] [14] He played in more than 430 league matches in both the first and second division of the German league pyramid. [15]

International career

Youth

Stindl is a former Germany U20 international and has won one cap for the Germany U21. [16]

Senior

Stindl during the 2017 Confederations Cup final 2017 Confederations Cup - Final - Lars Stindl.jpg
Stindl during the 2017 Confederations Cup final

Stindl was first called up to the senior national team in 2017, for the friendly against Denmark on 6 June 2017, for the 2018 World Cup qualification match against San Marino on 10 June 2017 and for the 2017 Confederations Cup to be held from 17 June to 2 July 2017. [17]

Stindl made his international debut on 6 June against Denmark, where he started for the game and played the full 90 minutes. [18]

In the opening game of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup against Australia, Stindl scored his first goal for Germany in the fifth minute of the match. [19] He followed this up with his second international goal in Germany's 1–1 draw with Chile three days later. [20] He repeated the feat against the same opposition in the Final of the tournament, scoring the only goal of the match to help Germany claim the title, finishing as joint top goalscorer with three goals. [21]

On 14 November 2017 he scored a vital equaliser in the 90th minute of a friendly against France (which was the last friendly match of Germany in that year and Germans were lagging behind by 1–2), which ensured Germany's unbeaten streak remaining alive in 2017. [22] His eleventh and final match was a 0-1 loss against Brazil in March 2018. [23]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 27 May 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague DFB-Pokal EuropeTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Karlsruher SC II 2006–07 [24] Regionalliga Süd 122——122
2007–08 [25] Regionalliga Süd264——264
2008–09 [25] Regionalliga Süd105——105
2009–10 [25] Regionalliga Süd10——10
Total491100004911
Karlsruher SC 2007–08 [25] Bundesliga 2000—20
2008–09 [25] Bundesliga21410—224
2009–10 [25] 2. Bundesliga 33920—359
Total561330005913
Hannover 96 2010–11 [26] Bundesliga33210—342
2011–12 [27] Bundesliga2822213 [lower-alpha 1] 2436
2012–13 [28] Bundesliga182209 [lower-alpha 1] 2294
2013–14 [29] Bundesliga31320—333
2014–15 [30] Bundesliga211011—2211
Total131198322416126
Borussia Mönchengladbach 2015–16 [31] Bundesliga307346 [lower-alpha 2] 33914
2016–17 [32] Bundesliga30114210 [lower-alpha 3] 54418
2017–18 [33] Bundesliga31630—346
2018–19 [34] Bundesliga21310—223
2019–20 [35] Bundesliga259104 [lower-alpha 1] 23011
2020–21 [36] Bundesliga3014418 [lower-alpha 2] 24217
2021–22 [37] Bundesliga26431—295
2022–23 [38] Bundesliga29821—319
Total22262219281227183
Career total45810532125016540133
  1. 1 2 3 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  2. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  3. ↑ Seven appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, three appearances and three goals in UEFA Europa League

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year [39]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Germany 2017104
201810
Total114
Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Stindl goal.
List of international goals scored by Lars Stindl
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
119 June 2017 Fisht Olympic Stadium, Sochi, RussiaFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 1–03–2 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
222 June 2017 Kazan Arena, Kazan, RussiaFlag of Chile.svg  Chile 1–11–12017 FIFA Confederations Cup
32 July 2017 Krestovsky Stadium, Saint Petersburg, RussiaFlag of Chile.svg  Chile 1–0 1–0 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
414 November 2017 RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, GermanyFlag of France (lighter variant).svg  France 2–22–2 Friendly

Honours

Germany

Individual

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