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Nick Proschwitz - Germany's Journeyman

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  1. originallambrettaman

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    NICK PROSCHWITZ: GERMANY’S JOURNEYMAN

    Posted on 7th February 2019 by tlammingsport

    May 4th, 2013, it is the final day of the Championship season and promotion-chasing Hull City are 2-1 up in a game they need to win to keep promotion in their own hands. After David Meyler is fouled in Cardiff City’s box and the Tigers are awarded a penalty, the big German striker has the chance to seal promotion back to the Premier League in the final minutes of the season.

    In a foreshadowing moment of the German’s career, with the chance to write his name in the Hull history books the striker fluffed his lines. His late penalty was comfortably saved by David Marshall, as the tension grew in the KCOM Stadium the misery was compounded when the Welsh side received a penalty of their own after Abdoulaye Faye was adjudged to have handled.

    Nicky Maynard stepped up and easily slotted away the penalty and it looked as if the German had squandered his side’s opportunity to secure promotion. On an unforgettable day, the German’s blushes were saved as Yorkshire rivals Leeds United provided the ultimate helping hand. Leeds defeated the Tigers promotion rivals Watford 2-1 in a game that finished fifteen minutes after the game in Hull, sending the Tigers fans into party mode on the final whistle.

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    Promotion celebrations at the KCOM Stadium. (Source: Getty)
    The German started his career in his homeland with the Hoffenheim reserve team in 2004 but could never really find a home in Germany. After four clubs in four years, the striker finally found success when he moved to FC Vaduz of Liechtenstein in the Swiss Challenge League (the Swiss Second Division).

    Proschwitz made his debut on July 16th, 2009, and went on to score 23 goals in 29 games, a tally that secured the striker top scorer in the division in his only season at the club. The German then moved to newly promoted top tier Swiss Side FC Thun scoring 8 goals in 31 games before requesting a summer transfer in April 2011.

    The German got his wish and signed a three-year contract with FC Luzern in the summer of 2011. However, a management change left Proschwitz out of the new bosses plans and the German was immediately surplus to requirements at the Swiss side. Subsequently, he returned to Germany with SC Paderborn 07 the same transfer window before the season had even started.

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    Proschwitz in action at Paderborn.
    After netting 17 times in 33 2.Bundesliga fixtures that season, the big German found himself at the top of the league’s scoring tally and the top of many club’s radars. Unfortunately, Proschwitz never managed to live up to his £2.6 million price tag and scored a mere 3 goals in 29 league games for the Tigers. The striker did provide an important game-winning brace as a sub against Ipswich and ultimately provided his most defining moment at the club against Cardiff. In the aforementioned game, Proschwitz steered home Stephen Quinn’s cross to get the Tigers on level terms in the promotion decider.

    Half a season later, yep, you guessed it, the striker was on the move once again. Surprisingly it was after a season and a half this time, not the customary one season before a move. Joining Barnsley on loan in January 2014, Proschwitz saw out the final few months of his contract at Hull out on loan. Following spells, with Brentford and Coventry, the German once again found himself back in his homeland.

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    Proschwitz returned to SC Paderborn 07 in the summer of 2015. (Source: Marc Köppelmann)
    Proschwitz returned to Paderborn in the summer of 2015, after 5 goals in 19 games the striker was released in January 2016 for allegedly exposing himself to a woman on a late-night drinking session during the clubs mid-season training camp.

    In true Proschwitz fashion, the target man, since his departure has had spells with Sint Truidense of Belgium and Sparta Rotterdam of Holland lasting…a season of course. Where is the German in 2019 you ask? Well, he is currently plying his trade for SV Meppen in the German Third Division. The 32-year-old has scored 8 goals in 11 games so far in the 2018/19 season.

    At 32, the journeyman is currently playing for his 17th club in a remarkable career throughout which he has spent no longer than a season at any club apart from Hull, whom he played for for around a season and a half. An impressively tragic track record to say the least.

    https://152ftbl.wordpress.com/2019/02/07/nick-proschwitz-germanys-journeyman/
     
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    <laugh>
     
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  3. Deano's Volley

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    For a bloke his size he was awful at heading, like he had lead in his boots. Thought the Ipswich game was his turning point but no he carried on being **** till the end.
     
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    Looking back over recent history I'm sure we've had more **** strikers than good/average ones
     
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    I remember his debut vs Rotherham in the league cup
    It was like watching someone who'd never headed the ball before and hadn't learned how to time his jump, somewhat amusing. He landed before the ball came at him.

    So naturally I had to get his name printed on the back of a shirt....
    I'm sure Sterling Archer is even more proud of his won shirt after having read this!
     
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    Proschwitz in action at Paderborn.
    After netting 17 times in 332.

    Impressive goal scoring record. 17 in 332.





    * I know the 2 on the end is a typo by the author.
     
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    His 3 goals in that promotion season were too important to class him as one of our worst signings imo.
     
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    I wonder how many on the pitch in that photograph have given up?
     
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    did Martin inherit his boots?
     
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    Isn't '2.Bundesliga' the league they were in as opposed to a typo?
     
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    Yes.
     
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    Jawohl.
     
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    I’m that used to seeing a space between numbers 1 904. it’s now the norm.
     
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    Bab.

    He's bab.
     
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    Nick Pro-Switch?
     
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    I'd forgotten how ridiculous those last few minutes of that game and then waiting for Watford TWS result was.
     
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    (shudder)
     
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    Wow. Just wow!
     
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    The day against Cardiff I stayed for about 5 minutes after the final whistle and thought we had blown it, and left, I was listening on the radio as I drove under the flyover leaving the car park to find out Leeds had done us a favour. I will never forget that moment.
     
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