Mathias Abel
Personal information
Full name	Mathias Abel
Date of birth	22 June 1981 (1981-06-22) (age 28)
Place of birth	Kaiserslautern, West Germany
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Kaiserslautern
Number	6
Youth career
1990–1998	Kaiserslautern
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998–2000 2000–2001 2002–2005 2005–2008 2005–2006 2007 2008–	Eintracht Bad Kreuznach Borussia Dortmund II Mainz 05 Schalke 04 → Mainz 05 (loan) → Hamburg (loan) Kaiserslautern	0? (?) 12 (0) 65 (4) 01 (0) 20 (0) 07 (0) 00 (0)
National team
2003	Germany U21	01 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 December 2009. * Appearances (Goals)

Mathias Abel (born 22 June 1981 in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German footballer who plays for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, as a defender.

[edit] Football career

After starting with amateurs Eintracht Bad Kreuznach and having a spell with Borussia Dortmund's reserves, Abel joined 1. FSV Mainz 05 in 2002, helping the club promote from the second division in his second year, with 18 matches.

He made his top flight debut on August 14, 2004, in a 21 home win over Hamburger SV, and netted three times during the season as the club maintained its status.

From 2006 onwards, Abel would appear sparingly for several clubs: FC Schalke 04, which also loaned him for five months to Hamburg, and 1. FC Kaiserslautern (during two years he appeared almost exclusively for the reserves); this was mainly due to two consecutive anterior cruciate ligament injuries (in early 2004, he suffered the same injury while at Mainz, being sidelined for six months).^[1][2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Career stats at Fussballdaten (German)

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