Eintracht Frankfurt announce the signing of Mario Götze
The man who gave the fourth world cup title to Germany has a new team. Earlier this week, the UEFA Europa League champions announced they completed the signing of Mario Götze through 2025. The club did not reveal the value of the deal, although the player’s buy-out clause was €4 million.
Götze returns to the Bundesliga after two successful seasons in the Netherlands playing for PSV Eindhoven. During his two years in PSV, the German appeared in 77 matches, scored 18 goals, gave 18 assists to his teammates, and won both the 2021 Dutch Supercup and the 2022 National Cup.
The striker’s arrival was well celebrated by Frankfurt’s officials, especially by Markus Krösche, Eintracht Frankfurt’s sports director, who said Götze’s decision to join the German side brings an excellent image to the club.
“The fact that a player like Mario Götze decided to go for Eintracht Frankfurt with conviction after numerous offers speaks for the excellent image that the club has developed in recent years,” explained Krösche.
The 30-year-old striker also expressed his excitement to debut as an ‘eagle bearer’ and he said he is looking forward to playing Bundesliga and Champions League once again.
He explained the talks he had with Krösche and Oliver Glasner, Eintracht Frankfurt’s coach, showed him that his ideas are aligned with the goals the club’s staff have for the season and this is one of the reasons why he chose Frankfurt.
“This club has undergone an extraordinary development and has embarked on an exciting and ambitious path, on which I can now accompany the club,” said Götze. “This club has a great foundation. From the stadium to the fans to the city, everything just suits me. I’m really looking forward to my return to the Bundesliga.”
At the beginning of the last decade, the German striker had a meteoric start in his career defending Borussia Dortmund’s colors, where the player won the Bundesliga twice, the German Cup and led his team to the UEFA Champions League final in 2013 alongside Marco Reus and Robert Lewandowski.
In 2014, he achieved the highest moment of his career when he scored the winning goal against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup final and gave Germany their first world title after 24 years.
Even though the expectations for Götze’s career were high after the world tournament, it seems that the German player has never reached the performances football fans had in mind following the event.
Unfortunately for the German, he had to deal with different injuries during his run at Bayern and his second run in Borussia which limited his chances to repeat the performances he had in the beginning of his career.
Between his 219 games for Borussia and 114 for Bayern Munich in the last decade, Götze won five Bundesliga titles, four German Cups, the UEFA Supercup and the FIFA Club World Cup.
-Matheus Teles
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