Kristian Nicht
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kristian Nicht | ||
| Date of birth | 3 April 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Jena, East Germany | ||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–2002 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2003 | Stuttgart Kickers | 30 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 0 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Alemannia Aachen | 60 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Viking FK | 20 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Karlsruher SC | 14 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Rochester Rhinos | 46 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Indy Eleven | 31 | (0) |
| 2015 | → Montreal Impact (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2015 | Montreal Impact | 0 | (0) |
| 2015 | Indy Eleven | 16 | (0) |
| 2016 | Minnesota United FC | 0 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 09:53, November 18, 2015 (EST). |
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Kristian Nicht (born 3 April 1982) is a German football goalkeeper.
After growing up learning the game in the academy system of his hometown club FC Carl Zeiss Jena through 2002, Nicht joined Stuttgarter Kickers of the Regionalliga Sud, Germany's then third-tier, for the 2002-03 campaign. Nicht would notch six clean sheets in 30 appearances as the team's first-choice 'keeper, matches that included his first professional shutout vs. Jahn Regensburg (Aug. 3, 2002, 0-0 D) and a notable 4-2 win against Bayern Munich II, the reserve squad of the famed Bavarian club on Aug. 17, 2002. At FC Carl Zeiss Jena, he would develop a close relationship with German National Team Goalkeeper Robert Enke.
Nicht would sign with FC Nürnberg for the 2003-04 season and earn the starting role for the club's Reserves side that competed in the Oberliga Bayern, Bavaria's regional league. A year to the day after registering his first career shutout with Stuttgarter, Nicht marked his Nürnberg debut in the same fashion, blanking Regensburg II in a 0-0 stalemate, the first of his 26 appearances during the campaign.
At the age of 23, Nicht would begin a three-and-a-year stint with TSV Alemannia Aachen from 2004–07, during which he helped the squad achieve promotion out of the Bundesliga 2 and into Germany's prestigious top-flight. After starting his stint with AA's reserve squad, three straight wins in the spring would see him promoted to the first team, for which he started the season's final five contests (including three wins). The 2005-06 campaign saw Nicht installed as the starter from day one, and he would go on to play every minute of the team's first 31 contests that season, which he finished with 11 shutouts and a 1.10 goals against average. Nicht's fourth shutout in five games in a 1-0 away win at Eintracht Braunschweig on April 7, 2006, secured the team's promotion to the Bundesliga 1 with five games remaining. His stellar play earned him the Bundesliga 2 Goalkeeper of the Year and German's most prestigious magazine, Kicker Magazine, rated Nicht the 6th best Goalkeeper in Germany prior to the 2006 World Cup hosted in Germany.
In the 2006-07 season, Nicht started half of the 34 matches in Aachen’s return to top division after a 36-year absence and also led the squad to wins in the first and second round of DFB-Pokal, the most prestigious annual cup competition in Germany. Nicht reasserted himself in the starting lineup late in the season but not could not prevent club from relegation back to Bundesliga 2. Nicht recorded three shutouts in five appearances before leaving club in winter, but not before making a noteworthy send-off appearance in a 0-0 draw at TuS Koblenz on December 14, in which he manned the goal from the 40th minute onward, replacing the red-carded starting keeper and immediately saving a penalty.
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