Phillip Menzel (born 18 August 1998) 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

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

for

Austrian Bundesliga The Austrian Football Bundesliga (german: Österreichische Fußball-Bundesliga, italic=no , "Austrian Football Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the Austrian football league system. Th ...

club

Austria Klagenfurt Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ci ...

Career

Menzel signed his first professional contract with

VfL Wolfsburg Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg () or Wolfsburg, is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of W ...

in 2016. In mid-2020, he moved to Austrian club

. Menzel made his professional debut for Klagenfurt in the

Austrian Football Second League The Austrian Football Second League (german: 2. Liga) is the second-highest professional division in Austrian football. It was formerly called the First League (''Erste Liga''), from 2002 to 2018. The division currently contains 16 teams, and t ...

on 4 October 2020, starting in the home match against

Floridsdorfer AC The Floridsdorfer Athletics Sports Club or simply Floridsdorfer AC is a professional football club based in Floridsdorf, the 21st district of Vienna. The club was founded in August 1904. Floridsdorfer AC won the Austrian football championship in ...

, which finished as a 5–0 win.

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* * * * * 1998 births Living people Footballers from Kiel German men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Germany men's youth international footballers VfL Wolfsburg II players VfL Wolfsburg players SK Austria Klagenfurt (2007) players Regionalliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players Austrian Football Bundesliga players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Austria {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub