Robin Zentner

Robin Zentner (born 28 October 1994) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Mainz 05.[2]

Robin Zentner
Zentner playing for Mainz 05 in 2020
Personal information
Full name Robin Zentner
Date of birth (1994-10-28) 28 October 1994[1]
Place of birth Rüdesheim am Rhein, Germany
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Mainz 05
Number 27
Youth career
0000–2012 Mainz 05
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Mainz 05 II 36 (0)
2014– Mainz 05 138 (0)
2015–2017 → Holstein Kiel (loan) 26 (0)
International career
2010 Germany U-17 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 September 2023

Career

Zentner played for SpVgg Eltville until 2006, when he joined the youth team at 1. FSV Mainz 05. There, from 2012 until 2015, he was active in the Mainz team. Beginning in the 2014/15 season, he moved up to the senior squad as their third goalkeeper. In August 2015, he was loaned to then third-division Holstein Kiel, a loan deal which was extended for the subsequent 2016/17 season. He played 26 times across two seasons in Northern Germany before returning to Mainz in 2017/18.

He returned to Mainz 05 for the 2017/18 season and played his first competitive game for the first team in October 2017. In one of his appearances, on November 4, 2017, against Borussia Mönchengladbach, he went viral for an "air kick" after mistaking the penalty spot for the ball following a back-pass, which nearly resulted in a goal.[3] For each of his first two seasons back from loan, he alternated with Florian Müller as the starting goalkeeper of the until he earned the starting job towards the beginning of the first half of the 2019/20 season. He suffered a torn cruciate ligament on March 8, 2020, in a Bundesliga match and missed the remainder of the season. He was named the undisputed starting goalkeeper at Mainz beginning in the 2020/21 season with Müller moving on to SC Freiburg. His contract with Mainz runs until the end of the 2022/23 season.

References
  1. "Robin Zentner | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | Player Profile | Bundesliga". bundesliga.com. DFL. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
  2. "Robin Zentner". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  3. "Air-kick goalie mistook penalty spot for ball". ESPN.com. 5 November 2017.
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