Emanuel Pogatetz

Emanuel Pogatetz (born 16 January 1983) is an Austrian football player. He plays for Hannover 96 in the German Bundesliga and the Austria national team.
Career
He started playing football with SK Sturm Graz where he also played his first match as football professional. He went on to FC Kärnten in the second division where he became champion and won the Austrian Cup. Then he went to Bayer Leverkusen. On loan he played for FC Aarau, Grazer AK and Spartak Moskau. 2005 he went to FC Middlesbrough in the English Premier League. 2006 he scored versus FC Sunderland and was the first Austrian player who scored in the Premier League. 2010 he went on to Hannover 96 in the German Bundesliga where he soon became a regular player for team.

Emanuel Pogatetz nickname is "Mad Dog" because he is a very hard defender. Former England and Middlesbrough coach Steve McClaren said "He never, ever, gives less than 300% in performance."
International career
On May, 18th he played his first match for the team. Due to public criticism about the team coach Josef Hickersberger he was suspended for a short time. Josef Hickersberger nominated him for the team for the UEFA Euro 2008. 2009 he became captain of the team.

Club career statistics

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|2000/01||Kärnten||First League||33||0||||||||||||||33||0

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|2001/02||rowspan="2"|Bayer Leverkusen||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||0||0||||||||||||||0||0
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|2002/03||0||0||||||||||||||0||0

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|2002/03||Aarau||Nationalliga A||21||3||||||||||||||21||3

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|2003/04||rowspan="2"|Graz||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||31||1||||||||||4||1||35||2
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|2004/05||22||1||||||||||9||1||31||2

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|2005||Spartak Moscow||Premier League||11||0||||||||||||||11||0

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|2005/06||rowspan="5"|Middlesbrough||rowspan="4"|Premier League||24||1||5||0||3||0||9||0||41||1
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|2006/07||35||2||7||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||42||2
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|2007/08||24||0||5||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||29||0
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|2008/09||27||1||4||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||33||1
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|2009/10||League Championship||||||||||||||||||||
86||2||||||||||13||2||99||4
0||0||||||||||||||0||0
21||3||||||||||||||21||3
11||0||||||||||||||11||0
110||4||21||0||5||0||9||0||145||4
228||9||21||0||5||0||22||2||276||11
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International career statistics

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|2002||2||0
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|2003||5||1
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|2004||6||0
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|2005||6||0
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|2006||4||0
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|2007||0||0
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|2008||12||1
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|2009||2||0
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!Total||37||2
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Other websites
 Official homepage
 Players profile Homepage Hannover96 
 Interview with Karim Haggui and Emanuel Pogatzetz 

References

Category:1983 births
Category:Living people
Category:Players of the Austrian national football team
Category:Sportspeople from Graz