David Yelldell

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David Yelldell
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Personal information
Full name David Yelldell
Date of birth October 1, 1981 (1981-10-01) (age 30)
Place of birth Stuttgart, West Germany
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Bayer Leverkusen
Number 22
Youth career
1999–2001 VfL Waiblingen
2001–2002 SG Backnang
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Stuttgarter Kickers II 24 (0)
2003–2005 Blackburn Rovers 0 (0)
2005 Brighton & Hove Albion (loan) 3 (0)
2005–2008 Stuttgarter Kickers 99 (0)
2008–2010 TuS Koblenz 51 (0)
2010–2011 MSV Duisburg 34 (0)
2011– Bayer Leverkusen 0 (0)
National team
2011– United States 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 2, 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).

David Yelldell (born October 1, 1981, in Stuttgart[1]) is a German-born American soccer player who plays for Bayer Leverkusen of the Fußball-Bundesliga.[2]

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[edit] Club career

Yelldell was the first choice goalkeeper for TuS Koblenz until suffering a knee ligament injury which kept him out of the final four matches of the 2009–10 2. Bundesliga season, when the club were relegated to the 3rd Liga.[3]

He signed with MSV Duisburg before the 2010–11 season and made his competitive debut for the club in a first round DFB-Pokal match against VfB Lübeck on 13 August 2010.[4]

The next season saw him signing with Bundesliga giants Bayer Leverkusen. He made his competitive debut for the club in a first round DFB-Pokal match, a 3–4 defeat at Dynamo Dresden on 30 July 2011.

[edit] International career

The offspring of a German mother and an American father, Yelldell holds dual citizenship. Thus he would have been eligible to play international football for either the United States or Germany.[5] He was first called up by the US team in 2011, for a friendly against Argentina. Yelldell earned his first national team cap three days later, on March 29, 2011, in an other friendly against Paraguay, substituting Marcus Hahnemann at half time.

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