Andreas "Lumpi" Lambertz (born 15 October 1984) is a retired German

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

and current assistant manager of Fortuna Düsseldorf II. He is the first German football player to have promoted from the fourth tier to first tier with only one club.

Career

Youth career

Lambertz began his youth football career in 1990 with SG Orken/Noithausen. He also played for Bayer Dormagen, TSV Norf,

Borussia Mönchengladbach Borussia Verein für Leibesübungen 1900 e. V. Mönchengladbach, commonly known as Borussia Mönchengladbach (), Mönchengladbach () or Gladbach (; abbreviated as Borussia MG, BMG), is a professional Association football, football club based in ...

and VfR Neuss prior to joining

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

Fortuna Düsseldorf

Lambertz began his professional career at

which was playing in the

Oberliga Nordrhein The Oberliga Nordrhein was the highest Football League in the region of Nordrhein which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 2008. In its last season, it was one of nine Oberligas in German football, the 4th tier of the Ge ...

at the time. Lambertz was in the starting lineup that sent Fortuna Düsseldorf to the

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary footba ...

for the first time in 15 years. Lambertz started the 2012–13 season with a two match ban. The ban is for celebrating with a torch in his hand after the 2nd leg of the promotion/relegation playoff when Fortuna Düsseldorf defeated

Hertha BSC Hertha, Berliner Sport-Club e. V., commonly known as Hertha BSC (), and sometimes referred to as Hertha Berlin, Hertha BSC Berlin, or simply Hertha, is a German professional football club based in the locality of Westend of the borough of Charl ...

on aggregate.

Personal life

Lambertz has one sister. He is married with a son born in 2006 and daughter born in 2011 and lives in

Korschenbroich Korschenbroich ( li, Korsjebrooch) is a town in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Niers, approx. 13 km west of Neuss and 5 km east of Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, li, Jla ...

Career statistics

Club

*1.Includes promotion/relegation playoff.

References

External links

* * 1984 births Living people Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers Fortuna Düsseldorf players Dynamo Dresden players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players {{germany-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub