Timo Ochs

Infobox Football biography
playername = Timo Ochs


fullname = Timo Ochs
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1981|10|17
cityofbirth = Göttingen
countryofbirth = West Germany
height = Height|m=1.89
position = Goalkeeper
currentclub = Red Bull Salzburg
clubnumber = 1
youthyears = 1996-1999
youthclubs = Hannover 96
years = 1999-2003 2003-2004 2004-2006 2006-
clubs = Hannover 96 VfL Osnabrück 1860 München Red Bull Salzburg
caps(goals) = 0 (0) 25 (0) 47 (0) 76 (0)
pcupdate = 10 August 2008

Timo Ochs (born 17 October, 1981 in Göttingen) is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Club career

Ochs joined Hannover 96 in 1996 and started his senior career with the club in 1999. However, he never managed to establish himself in the first team and left the club for 2nd Bundesliga side VfL Osnabrück in 2003. At Osnabrück, he initially played understudy to Sven Scheuer, but soon managed to establish himself as the first-choice goalkeeper and was seen by many as one of the best goalkeepers in the league, despite the club's relegation at the end of the season.

In 2004, he moved to 2nd Bundesliga side TSV 1860 München, where he initially played understudy to Michael Hofmann and only made one first-team appearance in the DFB-Pokal, as well as some appearances for the club's reserves in the Regionalliga Süd, in the first half of the 2004-05 season. However, he managed to establish himself as the first-choice goalkeeper following an injury to Hofmann at the beginning of the second half of the season and kept his place between the sticks for the rest of the season, as well as the entire following season in 2005-06, when he only missed one league match.

In 2006, he moved to Austrian Bundesliga side Red Bull Salzburg, where he has been the first-choice goalkeeper from the beginning of his contract. He helped the team win the Austrian championship in 2007 and also made several appearances in the UEFA Champions League qualifying as well as in the UEFA Cup.

International career

Ochs was part of the German national under-21 football team at the finals of the UEFA U-21 Championship 2004, but did not play any matches at the tournament.

Honours

*Austrian Bundesliga:
** 2007

External links

* [http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil/timo-ochs/ Weltfussball.de profile] de icon
* [http://87.106.1.66/rbsb/Team.php?id=53&lang=eng Timo Ochs] at Red Bull Salzburg