- Benedikt Fernandez
Football player infobox
playername = Benedikt Fernandez
height = height|m=1.84
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1985|1|8
cityofbirth =Bonn
countryofbirth =West Germany
currentclub = Bayer Leverkusen
position = Goalkeeper
clubnumber = 22
youthyears =
2000–2005
youthclubs = TUS Buisdorf
Tura Hennef
Renault BrühlBayer 04 Leverkusen
years = 2005–
2006–
clubs = Bayer Leverkusen II
Bayer Leverkusen
caps(goals) = 41 (0)
06 (0)
pcupdate =September 29 2008 Benedikt Fernandez (born
January 8 ,1985 inBonn ) is a German football goalkeeper who plays for Bayer Leverkusen. He is the son of a German mother and a Spanish father.Club career
Fernandez joined Bayer Leverkusen's youth academy in 2000 and started playing for the club's reserve team in 2005. In 2006, he signed a professional contract with the club to play understudy to
Hans-Jörg Butt andRené Adler . He made his Bundesliga debut on 10 February 2007 againstEintracht Frankfurt , coming on as a substitute following a red card to Hans-Jörg Butt. He made one more appearance in the Bundesliga that season before being replaced by René Adler, who went on to establish himself as the club's first-choice goalkeeper.Following the departure of Hans-Jörg Butt in the summer of 2007, Fernandez became the second-choice goalkeeper in Leverkusen's first team, also continuing to occasionally play for the reserves. His first appearance for the first team in the 2007-08 season was his
UEFA Cup debut againstFC Zürich on 19 December 2007. He only made two further appearances with the first team thereafter, one in the Bundesliga and one in the UEFA Cup, deputising for the injured Adler in late February 2008.Due to another injury to Adler, Leverkusen started their 2008-09 Bundesliga campaign with Fernandez in goal, with him subsequently making further three Bundesliga appearances before Adler returned to action in mid-September 2008.
External links
* [http://www.bayer04.de/b04e/en/1195.aspx?guid=1195-58502325-BE35-42F3-80A5-7E709235D9F5 Club profile] en icon
* [http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil/benedikt-fernandez/ Weltfussball.de profile] de icon en icon
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