Marcel Ritzmaier

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Marcel Ritzmaier
Ritzmaier with PSV in July 2014
Personal information
Full name Marcel Ritzmaier
Date of birth (1993-04-22) 22 April 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Judenburg, Austria
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Barnsley
Number 17
Youth career
1997–1999 TuS Spielberg
1999–2004 SV Lobmingtal
2004–2006 FC Judenburg
2006–2008 Austria Kärnten
2010–2012 PSV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2009 Austria Kärnten II 5 (1)
2009–2010 Austria Kärnten[1] 1 (0)
2010–2018 PSV 9 (0)
2013–2018 Jong PSV 42 (6)
2013–2014 → Cambuur (loan) 31 (3)
2015–2016 → NEC (loan) 20 (1)
2016–2017 → Go Ahead Eagles (loan) 28 (2)
2018–2020 Wolfsberger AC 47 (3)
2020– Barnsley 7 (0)
International career‡
2009 Austria under-16 2 (0)
2008–2010 Austria under-17 9 (2)
2010 Austria under-18 1 (0)
2011–2012 Austria under-19 9 (2)
2012– Austria under-21 9 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 April 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Marcel Ritzmaier (born 22 April 1993) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or left-back for Barnsley.

Career

Early career

Born in Judenburg, Ritzmaier started playing football in December 1997 with the youth side of TuS Spielberg before joining SV Lobmingtal in September 1999. In January 2004, after three and a half years in the SV Lobmingtal youth teams, he moved to FC Judenburg.

Having become one of the key players of FC Judenburg Ritzmaier was scouted by SK Austria Kärnten in July 2006. He played two and a half years in the Austria Kärnten youth system and was promoted to the reserve team in January 2009.[2] In July 2009 he became part of Austrian Football Bundesliga team squad and made his debut on 2 August 2009 against Rapid Wien.[3]

PSV

In February 2010 PSV Eindhoven signed the Austrian teenage midfielder from SK Austria Kärnten on a contract running until 30 June 2012.[4] In 2011 PSV extended Ritzmaier's contract by two years. In the 2013–14 season, Ritzmaier started out with PSV's reserve team Jong PSV, playing in their first Eerste Divisie match against Sparta Rotterdam.[5] On 8 August, he was loaned out to SC Cambuur for the remainder of the season.[6] With Georgino Wijnaldum, Memphis Depay, Dries Mertens, Jeremain Lens, Kevin Strootman, Jetro Willems in his team Ritzmaier was not playing every week.[7]

Wolfsberger AC

Ritzmaier joined Wolfsberger AC for the 2018–19 season, and played most games. His contract was extended for the next season as well, and he played Europa League with WAC, against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Roma, and İstanbul Başakşehir. After surprising results in the beginning WAC dropped out in the group stage.[8]

Barnsley

Ritzmaier followed his coach Gerhard Struber to join Barnsley in January 2020.[9]

International career

Ritzmaier played nine games and scored three goals for the Austria U-17.[10]

Personal life

His brother Christian is a professional footballer for DSV Leoben.[11]

Career statistics

As of match played 7 March 2020[12]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup[a] Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Austria Kärnten 2009–10 Austrian Bundesliga 1 0 0 0 — 0 0 1 0
PSV 2011–12 Eredivisie 0 0 1 0 — 2[a] 0 3 0
2012–13 Eredivisie 4 0 2 0 — 2[a] 0 8 0
2013–14 Eredivisie 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0
2014–15 Eredivisie 5 0 3 0 — 8[a] 0 16 0
2015–16 Eredivisie 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0
2016–17 Eredivisie 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 0
Total 9 0 6 0 — 12 0 27 0
Jong PSV 2013–14 Eerste Divisie 1 0 — — — 1 0
2014–15 Eerste Divisie 9 4 — — — 9 4
2015–16 Eerste Divisie 2 0 — — — 2 0
2017–18 Eerste Divisie 30 2 — — — 30 2
Total 42 6 — — — 42 6
Cambuur (loan) 2013–14 Eredivisie 31 3 3 2 — — 34 5
NEC (loan) 2015–16 Eredivisie 20 1 3 1 — — 23 2
Go Ahead Eagles (loan) 2016–17 Eredivisie 28 2 2 0 — — 30 2
Wolfsberger AC 2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga 29 1 3 0 — 0 0 32 1
2019–20 Austrian Bundesliga 18 2 2 1 — 5[a] 1 25 4
Total 47 3 5 1 — 5 1 57 5
Barnsley 2019–20 EFL Championship 7 0 1 0 0 0 — 8 0
Career total 185 15 20 4 0 0 17 1 222 20
  1. ^ a b c d e Appearances in UEFA Europa League

References

  1. ^ Marcel Ritzmaier – Fussballdaten – Die Fußball-Datenbank
  2. ^ "Eindhoven – Marcel Ritzmaier zo snel mogelijk naar PSV". Kliknieuws.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  3. ^ Austria – SK Rapid Wien vs. SK Austria Kärnten
  4. ^ Oostenrijker Marcel Ritzmaier naar PSV Archived 2010-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Sparta Rotterdam - Jong PSV
  6. ^ "SC Cambuur huurt Ritzmaier voor één seizoen van PSV" (in Dutch). Cambuur.nl. Archived from the original on 8 August 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  7. ^ Ritzmaier: Per Du mit dem Europacup-Halbfinale, weltfussball.com, 2019-05-17.
  8. ^ Der WAC und die verlorene Leichtigkeit, uefa.com, 2019-11-07.
  9. ^ "Marcel Ritzmaier: Barnsley sign Austrian midfielder from Wolfsberger AC". BBC Sport. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  10. ^ Eindhoven schnappt sich Super-Talent
  11. ^ Christian Ritzmaier – DSV LEOBEN :: offizielle Website
  12. ^ Marcel Ritzmaier at Soccerway

External links

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