Christian Fuchs

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Place in club Leicester City 12 of 12

Place in country Austria 83 of 83

Place in category defender 3859 of 3921

Place among defenders in club Leicester City 3 of 6

Place among defenders in country Austria 5 of 25

Personal info

Name: Christian Fuchs

Age: 38 years (7 April 1986)

Stature: 186 cm

Weight: 82 kg

Nationality:

Austria

Status

Role: defender / edit.

Club: Leicester City / edit.

Christian Fuchs. Biography

Christian Fuchs is a left back of German side Schalke 04 and the Austria national team. He was born in Neunkirchen, Austria.

Fuchs is a product of the SVg Pitten and Wiener Neustädter SC academies. Christian began his professional career in 2003/2004 in SV Mattersburg, where he made 140 appearances, scored 12 goals and twice went through to the ÖFB-Cup finals till 2008. In the beginning of the summer 2008 he moved to German side VfL Bochum.

In June 2011 Fuchs transferred to Schalke 04 after spending the 2010/2011 season on loan at FSV Mainz 05.

He signed a contract with the Gelsenkirchen club till 2015 and made his first Bundesliga appearance for ‘The Miners’ on 6 August 2011 in a 0-3 loss to Stuttgart.

Christian was capped many times for the national team at different youth levels before he received a call-up to the senior squad. His full team début came on 23 May 2006 in the friendly against Croatia. He also featured in Euro 2008 match against the Germany national squad.