Only changed clubs once in his sporting career: Jonas Hector
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Jonas Hector was always skeptical about professional football. Now he is announcing the end of his career. With the 32-year-old, 1. FC Köln have lost a leader with strong opinions and a very special kind of club icon.
Ehe just wanted to play football. And he was so good at it that, contrary to his original misgivings, he embarked on a professional career, during which the left-back and occasional midfielder of 1. FC Köln also made a career for himself in the German national team. The 32-year-old Saarlander is anything but a careerist. He mastered his game so well that he wrote a success story of his own accord, the authenticity of which was self-explanatory in the mixture of self-confidence and selflessness.
Jonas Hector, born in Saarbrücken and in his home country only played sport for the amateur club SV Auersmacher between 1998 and 2010, only changed clubs once in his sporting career: when the unmistakable football talent gave in to the courtship of 1. FC Köln in 2010 and moved to the Rhenish metropolis moved. There, Hector has always remained true to the “Effzeh” through the ups and downs of the times – in the first and second Bundesliga, where the big club, which is popular throughout Germany, has also ended up.
