Paul Seguin (born 29 March 1995) is a German professional

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 ...

who plays as a

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for

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club Schalke 04.

Club career

Born in

Magdeburg Magdeburg (; nds, label=Low Saxon, Meideborg ) is the capital and second-largest city of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I, the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdebur ...

, Seguin came through the academy system at

1. FC Lok Stendal 1. FC Lok Stendal is a German association football club that plays in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt. History Founded in 1909, ''FC Viktoria Stendal'' was dissolved in the aftermath of World War II and re-established in Soviet occupation zone of Ger ...

in 1999. In 2007, he joined the VfL Wolfsburg Academy. He was called up the second team in 2014. He made his professional debut in the Regionalliga Nord on 24 August 2014 against

Hamburger SV II Hamburger SV II are the reserve team of German association football club Hamburger SV. Until 2005 the team played as Hamburger SV Amateure. The team has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on five occasions. They cur ...

and on 6 December 2014, he scored his first goal of his career against

VfR Neumünster VfR Neumünster is a German association football club based in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein. The club was established on 3 March 1910 as FV Neumünster by members of FC Germania 1907 Neumünster and FC Viktoria 1909 Neumünster. In 1924, FV w ...

. He has played 36 games and scored 7 goals for

VfL Wolfsburg II VfL Wolfsburg II was a German association football team from the city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. It is the reserve team of VfL Wolfsburg. The team's greatest success has been two league championships in the tier four Regionalliga Nord in 2013� ...

since 2014. On 4 March 2015, he made his debut for first team in DFB-Pokal against RB Leipzig. He played one minute after he replaced Kevin De Bruyne. On 17 January 2019, Seguin was loaned out to Greuther Fürth for the rest of the season with an option to buy. On 7 May it was confirmed, that Greuther Fürth had decided to activate the option and he signed a three-year contract with the club. On 21 June 2023, Seguin agreed to join Schalke 04, newly relegated from the

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, signing a three-year contract.

International career

Seguin made his Germany U21 debut in a 1–0 win over Turkey U21 on 10 November 2016.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

VfL Wolfsburg * DFB-Pokal: 2014–15

References

External links

Profile
at the Schalke 04 website {{DEFAULTSORT:Seguin, Paul Living people 1995 births Footballers from Magdeburg Men's association football midfielders German men's footballers Germany men's youth international footballers Germany men's under-21 international footballers VfL Wolfsburg II players VfL Wolfsburg players Dynamo Dresden players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players 1. FC Union Berlin players FC Schalke 04 players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Regionalliga players German people of French descent