The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 Under-18 international was on the transfer list of the Bavarian giants, but he did not move to the Allianz Arena and joined Dusseldorf instead in order to get more playing time
Fortuna Dusseldorf star goalkeeper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabian-Giefer-c13104 has insisted that he opted to snub the league leaders’ Bayern Munich before the start of the current season. The young player turned down the Bavarian outfit in the summer transfer
window, after catching their interest due to some fine displays with former club, Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
As a result, he made the move to Dusseldorf as he wanted to feature more regularly in the German top division. Der FCB were closely monitoring the talented custodian’s progress and wanted him to provide cover for first-choice star
Manuel Neuer, but he preferred to leave Leverkusen for F95 in order to get more chances in the first-team.
The young prodigy further added when you are that young and have some aims for your career, you decide to take a step back and take some risks. He tried to do that exactly by spurning the opportunity to join Die Roten and move
to a less competitive side in the same league.
"When you are in your early 20s and have certain career objectives, you prefer to take another direction and take some risks,” the former Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Oberahr youth academy player was quoted as saying in an interview.
“That's why I opted to reject Bayern," the 2007 FIFA Under-17 World Cup third-place finisher added.
As a result of this, the 22-year-old spoke to Bayern team trainer Jupp Heynckes and informed him of his decision that he will not be linking up with the Reds last summer. It was a big choice for the shot-stopper and he is not regretting
it until now as he would not have featured a lot with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Manuel-Neuer-c23424 in Bayern goal.
"So I gave head coach Jupp Heynckes a call and told him that I had made the decision to go elsewhere instead," the young starlet finally concluded.
Giefer has played 17 league games and kept seven clean sheets so far.
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