Lars Stindl will end his active career in the summer. Karlsruher SC officially announced this on Thursday afternoon.
He will end his active career in the summer: Lars Stindl. imago images
For Lars Stindl things will come full circle next summer. Where the 2017 Confed Cup winner began his career is where he will end it – at Karlsruher SC.
Stindl’s resume includes 376 Bundesliga games (85 goals), 19 appearances in the Champions League (seven goals), eleven senior international games (four goals), 49 second division games (twelve goals), 33 DFB Cup games (13 goals) and 76 competitive games for Karlsruher SC to date.
The calf has been pinching for a long time
A persistent calf injury is currently slowing Stindl down. The offensive player played his last competitive game for the KSC to date on December 17th in the 3-2 home win against newly promoted Elversberg.
“It was a great gift for us as a coaching team to be able to work with a player like Lars with this outstanding quality,” explains head coach Christian Eichner: “Lars has shown his incredible footballing skills from day one with us, both in the League on the field – as well as in daily training. We all benefited from this as a team, we as a coaching team, the KSC as a whole, and the whole club.”
Eichner: “Emotional moment for all of us”
Eichner already firmly believes that it will be a “very special and emotional moment for all of us” when Stindl says goodbye at the end of the season. “I think that Lars was able to experience everything emotionally that he had hoped for with his return to KSC.”
After ten years at KSC, Stindl moved to Hannover 96 in 2010 and five years later to Borussia from Mönchengladbach. There he experienced his most successful time as a professional, playing 271 competitive games (83 goals) for the Foals alone. Last summer it was time for an emotional return to Baden.
Lars Stindl stands for everything the KSC stands for.
“Lars Stindl stands for everything that the KSC stands for,” says Sebastian Freis, Head of the Professionals Division: “He was trained in our own academy and went on to have an absolutely extraordinary career as a professional. He was recognized and successful at all of his positions, But he never forgot his homeland and the KSC. Lars is therefore a great role model for many young players.”
Stindl has shown that even making the jump to the national team is not an impossibility. “We will miss him very much, but the club, our fans and the team will say goodbye to him in the best possible way,” announced Freis.