Benjamin Auer

Football player infobox
playername = Benjamin Auer


fullname = Benjamin Auer
nickname = Benni
height =
weight =
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1981|1|11|mf=y
cityofbirth = Landau
clubnumber =
countryofbirth = West Germany
currentclub = Alemannia Aachen
position = Striker
youthyears = ?-1988 1988-1996 1996-1999
youthclubs = HSV Landau FSV Offenbach 1. FC Kaiserslautern
years = 1999-2000 2000-2002 2002-2006 2006-2008 2007 2008-
clubs = Karlsruher SC Borussia Mönchengladbach 1. FSV Mainz 05 VfL Bochum → 1. FC Kaiserslautern "(loan)" Alemannia Aachen
caps(goals) = 014 0(1) 025 0(3) 115 (30) 019 0(5) 007 0(0) 007 0(5)
nationalyears = 2002-2004
nationalteam = Germany U21
nationalcaps(goals) = 023 (15)
pcupdate = October 5, 2008
ntupdate = August 6, 2006

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

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 will sign for Alemannia Aachen from 1st July 2008.

External links

* [http://www.benni-auer.de/ Official Website (in German)]