In the past week there has been at Hertha BSC a bill of exchange with a symbolic character. The Berlin football team played in the international break with a friendly game against Holstein Kiel (1:3), and after almost 70 minutes of Fabian Lustenberger left the field. For him, Julian Albrecht, who plays in Herthas U 19 came. Lustenberger is 30, Albrecht 17. Lustenberger is leaving in the summer, the squad from Hertha BSC, Albrecht will then switch from the youth to the professionals. On Tuesday the young man who was born in Rostock, has signed his first professional contract with the Berliners.
“Julian Albrecht is another player from our Academy with great potential, which we trust to make the leap into the professional football”, Michael Preetz, Herthas Manager quoted in a press release of the Association. In the summer of 2016 Albrecht FC Hansa Rostock is changed in the B-youth of the Berlin, last may, he won, as a U-17 player, with Hertha in the German A-youth championship.
“The decision easy for me, because it is here that young players get a Chance,” says Albrecht to his promotion to the professionals. “I’m going to do everything possible to take advantage of this and me in Training.” In the squad of head coach Pal Dardai he is the first player from the 2001 Vintage. He replaces Denis Jastrzembski as the youngest professional at Hertha BSC.
“is His disposition already very, very good,” says Albrecht’s U-19 coach Michael Hartmann. “He has a good physique, is dynamic and has a good eye. He recognizes the spaces very well, he wants to occupy.“ In General, Albrecht, attended the eleventh class of the Poelchau-school on the Olympic site plays, as one of the two sixes. It can be used according to Hartmann, however, as the Eighth.
this season, Albrecht has played in 17 games in U-19-Bundesliga, he scored four goals and had two more. In the Youth League, Albrecht in all six games in the starting lineup and contributed a goal and a template for the first knockout round, in the Hertha two weeks ago, the defending Champions FC Barcelona failed.
national coach Kramer, “He is a good Boy”
For the German U-16 national team, Albrecht has played in four games for his country, currently, but he is not a Junior national player. “When I compare Julian with other guys, he is definitely to those who are in the field of view, but not of those who pretend in this Vintage currently on the clock,” says U-18 national team coach Frank Kramer. “Then he can come, of course. He is a good Boy who wants to work.“
His club coach Michael Hartmann wishes that Albrecht get even more out of you. “He is still very quiet,” says Hartmann. If Albrecht will be conducting more on-court speech, and his colleagues better, he would need to run constantly in the rooms for you. “He definitely needs to learn to play his Position,” says Herthas U-19 coach. Overall, however, Albrecht always bring a very good attitude. “He is more of a player, you have to stop,” says Michael Hartmann, “and that to me is clearly better than a, you always have to drive.”
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