Patrick Helmes
Helmes with Köln in 2013.
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Patrick Helmes | ||
| Date of birth | 1 March 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Cologne, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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1. FC Köln II (assistant) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1989–1991 | TuS Alchen | ||
| 1991–1992 | SpVgg Bürbach | ||
| 1992–1997 | Sportfreunde Siegen | ||
| 1997–2000 | 1. FC Köln | ||
| 2000–2003 | Sportfreunde Siegen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2005 | Sportfreunde Siegen | 51 | (22) |
| 2005–2008 | 1. FC Köln | 65 | (35) |
| 2005–2006 | 1. FC Köln II | 7 | (4) |
| 2008–2011 | Bayer Leverkusen | 57 | (28) |
| 2011–2013 | VfL Wolfsburg | 28 | (13) |
| 2011–2013 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 10 | (11) |
| 2013–2015 | 1. FC Köln | 27 | (12) |
| Total | 245 | (125) | |
| National team | |||
| 2004 | Germany Team 2006 | 1 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | Germany U21 | 9 | (3) |
| 2007–2010 | Germany | 13 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2015–2016 | 1. FC Köln II (assistant) | ||
| 2016– | 1. FC Köln II | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Patrick Helmes (born 1 March 1984) is a German former footballer who played as a striker. He currently works as the head coach of 1. FC Köln II. Helmes retired from professional football at the age of 31.
As a youth player, Helmes was active in local clubs in Freudenberg, Westphalia and Siegen. He joined 1. FC Köln in 1997, at the age of 13. However, he was regarded as too unstable and sent away in 2000. He subsequently went back to Sportfreunde Siegen, where he had already spent some time as a youth player. In the 2004–05 season, he scored 21 goals for his team in the third division, which made him top scorer of the league, helping his team to promotion to the second division.
He then joined his old club Köln again, where he made his Bundesliga debut in 2005 and scored his first goal in his second match, against rivals Bayer Leverkusen. After his club was promoted to the second division, Helmes became one of the most important players for his side, scoring seven times in his first five games of the season and keeping Köln at the top of the table. However, he scored the last of those goals with a broken foot. The injury kept him out of the squad for the following four months, during which his team performed extremely poorly and lost all chances to return to the first division.
Helmes did not hide his intention of joining another team. Even though he confirmed that his departure to Bayer Leverkusen would follow the 2007–08 season, Köln coach Christoph Daum still named him captain of the squad in the summer of 2007. He was later replaced as captain, but nevertheless had a good second half of the season, for which kicker sportsmagazine named him best striker of Germany's second division, ahead of Oliver Neuville, Chinedu Obasi and Demba Ba.
At Leverkusen, Helmes had a good start in the 2008–09 season, despite his injury in June which caused him being out of action for three weeks. Forming a duo with Stefan Kießling, he scored six goals in the first five games of the season, among them a hat-trick against Hannover 96. Only months after signing until 2012, his contract was extended and was then valid until 2013. At the end of his first season at Leverkusen, Helmes had scored 21 goals in 34 league games, and three goals in six appearances in the DFB-Pokal where his team reached the final losing to Werder Bremen. Just about two weeks after the final, a cruciate ligament in Helmes' right knee tore while Helmes was playing football with friends, and he had to be operated. On 19 December 2010, he scored the second goal of the match to achieve a full-time draw against SC Freiburg.
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