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Patrick Helmes played for which team between Jul 2012 and Sep 2012?
Patrick Helmes Patrick Helmes ( born 1 March 1984 ) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker . He works as the head coach of 1 . FC Köln II . Helmes retired from professional football at the age of 31 . Club career . Early career . 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 . 1 . FC Köln . 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 Germanys second division , ahead of Oliver Neuville , Chinedu Obasi and Demba Ba . Bayer Leverkusen . 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 . VfL Wolfsburg . On 31 January 2011 , Helmes moved to fellow Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg , the champion of 2008–09 for a reported fee of €8 million . He only made eight appearances for the club in his first half-season , facing competition by the clubs top strikers Grafite and Mario Mandžukić . The next season started out better for Helmes , who scored twice in the first game against former team Köln . However , those were his last goals of the first half of the season in which he made his final appearance on October , 1st . Helmes even got banned from the Bundesliga squad by manager Felix Magath and had to train with the reserves . He made his comeback appearance in the Bundesliga on 25 February 2012 , instantly scoring against Hoffenheim . By the end of the season , he had scored nine more times . In August 2012 , Helmes tore his cruciate ligament in a friendly against Manchester City . His first appearance in the 2012–13 Bundesliga season was on 15 February 2013 , against Bayern Munich . International career . Helmes was selected for the national team for the first time by Joachim Löw . He made his international debut for Germany in a friendly against Denmark on 28 March 2007 , being substituted for Jan Schlaudraff in 80th minute . He made two more short appearances afterwards , before he was selected for the starting squad for the first time on 12 September 2007 in a friendly against Romania held at RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne , in which he was joined by fellow Cologne local hero Lukas Podolski . He was included in Löws 26 man provisional Euro 2008 squad but was eventually left out in favour of Oliver Neuville . After the European Championships , he had a few more appearances as a substitute . Helmes scored his first goal for the national team on 19 November 2008 in a 1–2 friendly defeat against England . He scored his second goal for Germany almost two years later in a friendly against Denmark after coming on as a substitute . Coaching career . After retiring in the summer 2015 , Helmes became the new assistant manager of 1 . FC Köln II . He became the interim head coach on 6 December 2016 and became the permanent head coach on 22 December 2016 . His first match was 2–1 loss to Borussia Mönchengladbach II on 10 December 2016 . 1 . FC Köln took the interim tag off and was manager of 1 . FC Köln II until 25 September 2017 . His final match was a 6–0 loss to SV Rödinghausen . He then became assistant manager for Rot-Weiß Erfurt . On 13 July 2020 , Helmes was hired for a dual role of assistant manager for Admira Wacker Mödling and manager of the reserve team . He was also the interim manager of Admira Wackers first team between 14 September 2020 and 21 September 2020 . He lost his only match as interim manager 5–0 to SKN St . Pölten . Personal life . Helmes father is Uwe Helmes , a former professional football player who later managed Siegen , among others . As of 2008 , he works as a scout for Leverkusen . Honours . Club . Bayer Leverkusen - DFB-Pokal Runner-up : 2008–09