![]() Aogo before a match with Germany in 2011.
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Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Full name | Dennis Aogo | |||||||||||
Date of birth | 14 January 1987 | |||||||||||
Place of birth | Karlsruhe, West Germany | |||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||
Playing position | Left back, Left wing-back, Midfielder | |||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||
Current team
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Schalke 04 | |||||||||||
Number | 15 | |||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||
1991–1993 | FV Grünwinkel | |||||||||||
1993–1994 | Bulacher SC | |||||||||||
1994–2000 | Karlsruher SC | |||||||||||
2000–2002 | Waldhof Mannheim | |||||||||||
2002–2004 | SC Freiburg | |||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
2004–2008 | SC Freiburg | 94 | (11) | |||||||||
2008–2014 | Hamburger SV | 133 | (2) | |||||||||
2013–2014 | → Schalke 04 (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
2014– | Schalke 04 | 48 | (0) | |||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||
2002–2003 | Germany U16 | 14 | (2) | |||||||||
2007–2009 | Germany U21 | 25 | (4) | |||||||||
2010–2013 | Germany | 12 | (0) | |||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 April 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 2 June 2013 |
Dennis Aogo (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛnɪs ʔaˈʔoːɡoː]; born 14 January 1987) is a German professional footballer who plays as a left back and left wing-back or midfielder for Schalke 04.
Born to a German mother and a Nigerian father, Aogo grew up in Oberreut, a suburb in the south-west of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg. In 2000, when his parents split up, he moved with his father to Bruchsal and left Karlsruher SC to join Waldhof Mannheim. In 2002, aged 15, he joined SC Freiburg and attended their youth academy while graduating with Mittlere Reife at Max-Weber-Schule in Freiburg.
Aogo played with the Karlsruher SC academy and has played at several youth levels including the U15s and U16s. Since 2004, he was a part of the SC Freiburg academy, and celebrated his debut in the Bundesliga at seventeen years of age and he immediately won himself a place in the centre of midfield.
Aogo joined signed at Bundesliga club Hamburger SV in 2008 and was part of the regular starting lineup, mostly as a left back. On 29 August 2013, Aogo was loaned to Schalke 04. S04 then agreed transfer fee terms in June 2014 for a permanent €2,000,000 move, and Aogo signed a contract with Schalke 04 running until 30 June 2017.