Stephan Ambrosius

Stephan Kofi Ambrosius (born 18 December 1998) is a German professional footballer who plays as a defender for Hamburger SV.[1]

Stephan Ambrosius
Personal information
Full name Stephan Kofi Ambrosius
Date of birth (1998-12-18) 18 December 1998
Place of birth Hamburg, Germany
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Hamburger SV
Number 35
Youth career
2003–? Einigkeit Wilhelmsburg
SV Wilhelmsburg
000?–2012 FC St. Pauli
2012–2017 Hamburger SV
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017– Hamburger SV II 18 (1)
2018– Hamburger SV 10 (0)
National team‡
2020– Germany U21 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 12 November 2020

Born in Hamburg to Ghanaian parents, Ambrosius joined the Hamburger SV youth academy in 2012. He made his professional debut in the Bundesliga in March 2018. He is also a German youth international.

Early years

Stephan Ambrosius was born in Hamburg to Ghanaian parents.[2] He grew up in the quarter of Wilhelmsburg.[3]

Club career

Youth

Ambrosius started playing football at the age of 5 at local club Einichkeit Wilhelmsburg, before moving to SV Wilhelmsburg and finally FC St. Pauli. In 2012, at the age of 13, Pauli moved to the Hamburger SV youth academy.[4] At HSV, he progressed through all the youth teams until 2017 and played, among other things, in the Under 17 and Under 19 Bundesliga. For the 2017–18 season, Ambrosius was promoted to the second team, Hamburger SV II, and competed in the fourth-tier Regionalliga.

2017–18 season

In early February 2018, Ambrosius was promoted to the professional squad by head coach Bernd Hollerbach.[5][6] On 10 February 2018, he was called up for the first team squad for his first Bundesliga game, but did not make an appearance in the 0–2 defeat away at Borussia Dortmund.[7] He made his Bundesliga debut on 31 March 2018 in a 1–1 away draw against VfB Stuttgart under new head coach Christian Titz, who had taken over the reigns in early March. Ambrosius debuted in the starting lineup and was substituted at half-time for Rick van Drongelen.[8][9] This proved to be his only appearance during the season, which saw HSV suffer relegation to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in club history. For the second team, Ambrosius made 20 appearances and scored one goal.

2018–19 season

Ahead of the 2018–19 season, Ambrosius signed his first professional contract running until 30 June 2021.[10] In the first half of the new season, he was behind Rick van Drongelen, David Bates and Léo Lacroix in the depth chart, and neither under Titz nor under his successor Hannes Wolf he made an appearance in the 2. Bundesliga, instead only playing in the DFB-Pokal besides his 15 appearances for the second team in the Regionalliga Nord. In December 2018, Ambrosius suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, sidelining him for the rest of the season.[11]

2019–20 season

In the 2019–20 pre-season, Ambrose was demoted to the second team by the new head coach Dieter Hecking.[12] There, he immediately established himself as a starter again. In February 2020, Ambrosius returned to first-team practice as Gideon Jung was utilised in defensive midfield following the injury of Adrian Fein and only Ewerton was available alongside central defenders Rick van Drongelen and Timo Letschert.[13] After Jung received a red card on 29 February against Erzgebirge Aue and Ewerton suffered a long-term injury, Ambrosius was included in the first-team squad for the matchup against SSV Jahn Regensburg on 7 March for the first time that season.[14] On the last matchday of the season, he made his first and only league appearance that season in the 1–5 home defeat to SV Sandhausen and received a "satisfactory" score by sports magazine kicker, the best score of a field player on a desolate HSV team.[15] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ambrosius made only 17 appearances (15 appearances as a starter) in the Regionalliga, before the season was cancelled.

International career

Although born in Hamburg, Ambrosius was eligible to play for Ghana due to his parents being from the country. Due to numerous cancellations in his playing position by Nico Schlotterbeck and Maxim Leitsch, Ambrosius was called up by Germany under-21 coach Stefan Kuntz in early October 2020.[16] However, as Ambrosius tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, he was unable to participate in the 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification matches against Moldova and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[17] Ambrosius finally made his debut for the under-21 side in November 2020.

References
  1. "Stephan Ambrosius". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. "HSV-Talent Stephan Ambrosius: Wer ist Hamburgs Bundesliga-Debütant?". Spox (in German). Perform Media Deutschland GmbH. 31 March 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  3. Jacobs, Henrik; Schiller, Kai (31 July 2018). "Projekt Profi: Ambrosius lebt seinen Fußball-Traum". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  4. "Ambrosius: Alles auf A!". Hamburger SV (in German). 18 September 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  5. Saess, Niklas (7 February 2018). "HSV: Bernd Hollerbach zieht Talente hoch - Gideon Jung trainiert individuell". 90min.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  6. "Neues vom HSV: Stephan Ambrosius trainiert mit den Profis". shz.de (in German). 8 February 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  7. "Batshuayi trifft schon wieder - und macht den Salto". kicker (in German). 10 February 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  8. "VfB Stuttgart – Hamburger SV 1:1 (Bundesliga 2017/2018, 28. Round)". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. 31 March 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  9. "Ginczek macht es Holtby nach". kicker (in German). 31 March 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  10. "Stephan Ambrosius unterschriebt Lizenzspielervertrag". Hamburger SV (in German). 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  11. "HSV: Jetzt hat es auch Ambrosius erwischt". kicker (in German). 13 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  12. Jacobs, Henrik (17 July 2019). "Der lange Weg zurück: Das ist Heckings Plan mit Ambrosius". Hamburger Abendblatt (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  13. Vieira Heine, Luis (3 March 2020). "HSV-Abwehrtalent Nach Ewerton-Verletzung: Neue Chance für Ambrosius?". Hamburger Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  14. "Hamburg siegt wieder: Kapitän Hunt und Co. setzen Stuttgart unter Druck". kicker (in German). 7 March 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  15. "Taktische Aufstellung - Hamburger SV - SV Sandhausen". kicker. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  16. "Mit HSV-Duo und Passlack: Kuntz nominiert Septett nach". kicker (in German). 5 October 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  17. "Nmecha reift zur Führungsfigur". kicker (in German). 9 October 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020. Wegen eines Coronafalles des Hamburgers Stephan Ambrosius hatte das Spiel lange auf der Kippe gestanden.
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