Stefan Kiessling - famous German football player,protecting the colors of Leverkusen "Bayer". He was born in 1984, and he began playing football at the age of 4, when he went to the Bamberg Sports Academy.
In 2001, Stefan Kiessling became a football player of Nuremberg. As part of the new club for several years, the German could not get into the main structure, so he was forced to act in the youth team.
Excellent performances did not go unnoticed. In 2004, Stefan became a full-fledged player in the main team of Nuremberg. For the 2004/05 season in the Bundesliga striker played 27 matches and scored 3 goals.
A year later, Kissling improved its performance.In 27 bouts of the championship in Germany, young Stefan scored 10 goals, which attracted the attention of the coaching staff of one of the leaders of German football. This team was Bayer Leverkusen.
In 2006, the "pharmacists" bought out a German contract.Until 2009, Kissling’s performance was lame. In the 2006/07 season. he distinguished himself with ten precise strikes, a year later the German was able to hit the opponents' gate 7 times. In the 2007/08 season. Kissling scored 9 goals in the national championship and 6 in the Champions League. A year later, Stefan scored 8 goals in the Bundesliga.
In 2008, the Bayer striker played 3 games inThe Cup of the country, in which I could score 1 ball. Thus, in the first 3 years in the Leverkusen club, Stefan Kissling became the author of 31 goals in all tournaments. But the main achievements were still ahead.
In the 2009/10 seasonFor the first time, Stefan forced specialists to talk about themselves. In 30 matches of the Bundesliga he managed to score 20 times. However, the next season made many people forget about the striker, as its effectiveness declined significantly - 7 goals in 20 Bundesliga matches, not a single accurate strike in 6 matches within the Champions League.
A scoring drought did not last long, fortunately forfootball player and his many fans. In the 2011/12 season Kissling has distinguished sixteen times within the framework of the National Championship. Despite the fact that the attacker was able to regain confidence, he began to score goals again in the domestic championship, in the Champions League the scorer did not go well. In the eight meetings that Bayer played in the most prestigious club tournament in Europe, the striker could not distinguish himself even once.
2012/13 seasonbecame the key to Kiessling's career. Stefan’s statistics in the Bundesliga were impressive. He scored 25 goals in 34 matches of the Championship of the country, still on a goal German sent to the gates of his rivals in the Champions League and the German Cup. Many European grants wanted to get a striker, but the football player decided to stay at Bayer.
Следующий сезон стал менее результативным для player In the Champions League, the Leader of the Leverkusen club scored twice as in the national cup. Most of his goals (15) Stefan scored in the Bundesliga. And in the course of this season, European grants tried to get a football player. The photo of Stefan Kiessling could be seen on the pages of authoritative football tabloids in England, Spain, Italy and France, but the player still decided to stay at Bayer Germany.
Years later, the footballer himself began to doubtcorrectness of his decision. In the next 3 seasons, he significantly reduced in terms of performance. Kissling was able to score only 31 goals in more than 100 matches for the club in all tournaments.
In the summer of 2017, Stefan was injured due towhich missed the pre-season training, after which he stated that in 2018 he would end his career. In the Bundesliga season 2017/18. the striker never came out at the start. On his account, only two appearances on the field off the bench and 21 minutes played.
During his football career, Stefan Kiessling tookparticipated in 379 matches of the Bundesliga, 70 matches of the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, and also played 20 games in the German Cup. In these matches, the forward has scored 161 goals, 138 of which fell on the German championship.
In 2006, Stefan played 3 games in juniorEuropean Championship. Great performance in the 2009/10 season was the reason for inviting Kissling to the German national team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The German played only two games on the world championship, did not distinguish by productive actions, however, according to the results of the tournament, he was able to leave South Africa with a bronze medal.
Personal reward from Stefan Kiessling only one. This is the title of the top scorer of the German Bundesliga 2012/13 season, when Bayer Leverkusen's striker scored twenty-five goals.
