Dennis Eckert

Dennis Eckert
Personal information
Full name Dennis-Yerai Eckert Ayensa
Date of birth (1997-01-09) 9 January 1997
Place of birth Bonn, Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Celta B
Youth career
2001–2007 SC Pulheim
2007–2011 1. FC Köln
2011–2013 Alemannia Aachen
2013–2016 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2017 Borussia Mönchengladbach II 4 (0)
2017– Celta B 42 (9)
2018– Celta 4 (0)
National team
2015 Germany U19 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 27 September 2018

Dennis-Yerai Eckert Ayensa (born 9 January 1997) is a German footballer who plays for Spanish club Celta de Vigo B as a forward.

Club career

Born in Bonn to a Galician mother and a father who is half Iranian and half German, Eckert joined Borussia Mönchengladbach's youth setup in 2013, after stints at Alemannia Aachen, 1. FC Köln and SC Pulheim.[1] He made his senior debut with the former's reserve team on 5 September 2015, playing the last five minutes in a 2–2 Regionalliga home draw against SSVG Velbert.

On 4 July 2017, Eckert joined Celta de Vigo and was initially assigned to the B-team in Segunda División B.[2] He made his first-team debut on 18 August of the following year, coming on as a late substitute for Maxi Gómez in a 1–1 home draw against RCD Espanyol.[3]

International career

Eckert has played for the Germany national under-19 football team.[4] Dennis Is eligible to play for Spain and Iran in the future .

References

  1. ↑ "Dennis Eckert, el gol como tarjeta de presentación" [Dennis Eckert, the goal as a presentation card] (in Spanish). La Voz de Galicia. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Víctor Pastrana y Dennis Eckert, nuevas incorporaciones del Celta B" [Víctor Pastrana and Dennis Eckert, new additions of Celta B] (in Spanish). Celta Vigo. 4 July 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Tablas para ir calentando" [Draw to start preparing] (in Spanish). Marca. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  4. ↑ http://www.persianfootball.com/news/2018/08/31/dennis-eckert-future-team-melli-call-up/
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