Lukas Schmitz is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 footballer who plays for Werder Bremen

SV Werder Bremen

SV Werder Bremen is a German sports club best known for its association football team playing in Bremen, in the northwest German federal state of the same name. The club was founded on 4 February 1899 as Fußballverein Werder by a group of sixteen vocational high school students who had won a prize...

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Career

Schmitz began his career with TSG Sprockhövel

TSG Sprockhövel

TSG 1881 Sprockhövel is a German association football club based in Sprockhövel, North Rhine-Westphalia. With over 25,000 members, TSG is the largest sport club in the town and includes departments for athletics, badminton, basketball, Budo, dance, gymnastics, handball, swimming, table tennis,...

. Here he scored 11 goals in 23 games during the 2006–07 season of the Verbandsliga Westfalen 2

Verbandsliga Westfalen

The Westfalenliga is the second highest football league in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. It operates in two separate groups which run parallel below the NRW-Liga. Currently the sixth tier of the German football league system, the Westfalenligen were...

. In July 2007, he signed for VfL Bochum II

VfL Bochum II

VfL Bochum II is the second team of German football club VfL Bochum.-Overview:...

. He played 36 games with the VfL Bochum

VfL Bochum

Verein für Leibesübungen Bochum 1848 Fußballgemeinschaft, commonly referred to as simply VfL Bochum, is a German association football club based in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia.-Founding to World War II:...

 reserve squad.

Schmitz transferred to nearby rivals Schalke 04

FC Schalke 04

Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as simply FC Schalke 04 or Schalke , is a German, association-football club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke has long been one of the most popular football teams in Germany, even though major...

 on 8 May 2009. He made his professional debut on 18 September 2009 in a match against VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg is a professional German association football club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, who play in the Bundesliga football competition. Wolfsburg have won the Bundesliga once in their history, in the 2008–09 season, and were DFB-Pokal runners-up in 1995. The current head coach is Felix...

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Schmitz signed a four-year contract with Werder Bremen on 17 June 2011.

Position

Schmitz plays as a left midfielder

Midfielder

A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

 or a defensive midfielder. In the 2010–11 season, he became the club's main left fullback.

Personal

Schmitz studies Political science

Political science

Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

s and Science of Public Administration over distance learning.

External links

• Lukas Schmitz at transfermarkt.de