Benjamin Auer

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Benjamin Auer
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Personal information
Full name Benjamin Auer
Date of birth (1981-01-11) 11 January 1981 (age 31)
Place of birth Landau, West Germany
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club Alemannia Aachen
Number 9
Youth career
0000–1988 HSV Landau
1988–1995 FSV Offenbach
1995–1999 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2000 Karlsruher SC 14 (1)
2000–2002 Borussia Mönchengladbach 25 (3)
2002–2006 1. FSV Mainz 05 116 (30)
2006–2008 VfL Bochum 19 (5)
2007 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) 7 (0)
2008– Alemannia Aachen 113 (54)
National team
2002–2004 Germany U21 23 (15)
2004–2005 Germany B 3 (4)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:31, 14 January 2012 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).

Benjamin Auer (born 11 January 1981 in Landau) is a German footballer who is a centre-forward.[1]

Career

As a child he played for the HSV Landau, before moving to his first major youth team, FSV Offenbach. At the age of 15 he moved to Kaiserslautern, for whom he played until 1999. He moved to Karlsruher SC where he played for a year, before going to Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Auer played 23 times for the German under-21 team, scoring 15 goals, and played around 60 times in his youth between the ages of 16 and 20. He helped bring Mainz up to the Bundesliga in 2004.

He joined 2. Bundesliga side Alemannia Aachen on 1 July 2008.[2]

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