Tony Jantschke

Jantschke began his career at Hoyerswerdaer SV Einheit and FV Dresden-Nord before moving to Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2006. There he was used in the youth teams and in the second team, living for almost two years in the club's youth boarding school. On 29 November 2008, he made his Bundesliga debut under coach Hans Meyer in a 3-1 home loss to Energie Cottbus, coming on as a substitute for Gal Alberman in the 46th minute. He scored his first Bundesliga goal in the game in a 1–3 loss against Bayer Leverkusen on 6 December 2008, in which he played the full 90 minutes. At 18 years and 243 days, he is Borussia's third youngest goalscorer in the Bundesliga, behind Marco Villa and Rainer Bonhof. Jantschke signed a professional contract on 1 January 2009, which initially ran until the end of June 2012 and was later extended to 2018. At the beginning of the 2010–11 season, he got injured on 12 September 2010 in the second team's Regionalliga match against SC Wiedenbrück and, after breaking his left metatarsal, missed almost the entire first half of the season. Jantschke, who was initially used as a defensive midfielder under Hans Meyer in Mönchengladbach (but has also played as a left or central defender), had seen himself as a "defensive all-rounder". In the 2011–12 season, however, he found himself frequently playing at right-back, with his former German youth national team coach being the first to let him play a wide position in defence. There, he supplanted Tobias Levels and…