Mohamed Dräger

Mohamed Dräger
Personal information
Full name Mohamed Dräger[1]
Date of birth (1996-06-25) 25 June 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2][3]
Position(s) Right back
Team information
Current team
 Basel
Number 6
Youth career
0000–2009 PSV Freiburg
2009–2015 SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2017 SC Freiburg II 68 (11)
2017–2020 SC Freiburg 2 (0)
2018–2020 → SC Paderborn (loan) 50 (1)
2020–2021 Olympiacos 8 (0)
2021–2023 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
2022–2023 → Luzern (loan) 48 (6)
2023– Basel 20 (2)
International career‡
2013 Tunisia U17 4 (1)
2018– Tunisia 38 (3)
Medal record
Representing  Tunisia
Men's football
FIFA Arab Cup
Runner-up 2021 Qatar
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:54, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Mohamed Dräger (Arabic: مُحَمَّد دراغر; born 25 June 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a right back for Swiss Super League club FC Basel. Born in Germany, he plays for the Tunisia national football team.

Club career

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to a German father and Tunisian mother, Dräger played his youth football with local Freiburg Police Sports Club and in 2009 he moved to the youth department of SC Freiburg. With the club's A youth team, he won the DFB-Pokal youth Cup in 2014. They won the final with an 8–7 win on penalties against FC Schalke 04, with Dräger being one of the successful penalty takers. After being the most dangerous player in the Freiburg youth team in the 2014/15 A-Junior Bundesliga with 15 goals during that season, he advanced to their second team in 2015. In the 2016/17 season, they managed direct promotion back to the Regionalliga Südwest as the Baden-Württemberg league champion. Dräger played mainly for the second team, but he made his professional debut for SC Freiburg on 27 July 2017, in a UEFA Europa League qualifying match against Slovenian club Domžale, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute for Mike Frantz.[4]

In 2018, Dräger joined SC Paderborn on a two-year loan.[5] In September 2020, he joined Greek club Olympiacos on a transfer fee in the range of €1 million.[6]

On 31 August 2021, Dräger joined EFL Championship side Nottingham Forest for an undisclosed fee.[7] On 2 February 2022, Dräger moved on loan to Swiss Super League club Luzern, with an option to buy. After the loan period, Luzern did not pull the option.[8]

On 25 August 2023, FC Basel announced they had signed Dräger on a three-year contract.[9] He joined Basel's first team for their 2023–24 season under head coach Timo Schultz. Dräger played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 3 September as Basel played a 2–2 draw with Zürich.[10] He scored his first goal for his new team in the home game on 5 November 2023 as Basel won 2–1 against Yverdon.[11]

International career

Dräger made his debut for the Tunisia national team on 20 November 2018, in a friendly against Morocco, as a 79th-minute substitute for Naïm Sliti,[12] and scored on 13 October 2020 his first goal in a 1–1 friendly game draw away to Nigeria.[13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 9 December 2023
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
SC Freiburg II 2014–15 Regionalliga 4 0 — — — 4 0
2015–16 Regionalliga 18 1 — — — 18 1
2016–17 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 20 2 — — — 20 2
2017–18 Regionalliga 26 8 — — — 26 8
Total 68 11 — — — 68 11
SC Freiburg 2017–18 Bundesliga 2 0 0 0 1[b] 0 — 3 0
SC Paderborn (loan) 2018–19 2. Bundesliga 32 0 4 0 — — 36 0
2019–20 Bundesliga 18 1 0 0 — — 18 1
Total 50 1 4 0 — — 54 1
Olympiacos 2020–21 Super League Greece 8 0 1 0 1[c] 0 — 10 0
FC Luzern (loan) 2021–22 Swiss Super League 17 3 2 1 — 2[d] 0 21 4
2022–23 Swiss Super League 31 3 1 0 — — 32 3
Total 48 6 3 1 — 2 0 54 7
FC Basel 2023–24 Swiss Super League 13 1 2 0 — — 15 1
Career total 189 19 10 1 2 0 2 0 203 20
  1. ^ Includes DFB-Pokal, Greek Football Cup, Swiss Cup
  2. ^ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  3. ^ Appearance in UEFA Champions League
  4. ^ Appearances in Swiss Super League relegation play-offs

International

As of matches played on 20 June 2023[3]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Tunisia 2018 1 0
2019 12 0
2020 3 1
2021 8 2
2022 12 0
2023 2 0
Total 38 3

International goals

As of goal scored on 30 May 2022[3]
Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dräger goal.
List of international goals scored by Naïm Sliti
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 13 October 2020 Jacques Lemans Arena, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria  Nigeria 1–1 1–1 Friendly
2 25 March 2021 Martyrs of February Stadium, Benghazi, Libya  Libya 3–1 5–2 2021 AFCON Q
3 16 November 2021 Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis, Tunisia  Zambia 2–0 3–1 2022 World Cup Q

Honours

Olympiacos

Tunisia

References

  1. ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Tunisia (TUN)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 29. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Spieler - Mannschaft - Profis". SC Paderborn 07 (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Mohamed Dräger at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ^ UEFA.com (27 July 2017). "UEFA Europa League - Freiburg 1–0 Domžale". UEFA.com. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  5. ^ Schröder, Marc (21 June 2018). "Paderborn leiht Mohamed Dräger vom SC Freiburg aus". Neue Westfälische (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  6. ^ "SC Freiburg: Mohamed Dräger kurz vor Wechsel zu Olympiakos Piräus". onefootball.com (in German). 27 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Two more signings as Ojeda checks in".
  8. ^ "FÜR DIE RECHTE AUSSENBAHN" (Press release) (in German). Luzern. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  9. ^ FC Basel 1893 (25 August 2023). "Mohamed Dräger zum FCB" [Mohamed Dräger to FCB] (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 25 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (3 September 2023). "FC Basel - FC Zürich 2:2 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  11. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (5 November 2023). "FC Basel - Yverdon-Sport FC 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  12. ^ "Tunisia v Morocco game report". ESPN. 20 November 2018.
  13. ^ "Nigeria V Tunisia game report". ESPN. 10 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Tunisia - Nigeria Live - Summary: Football Scores & Highlights - 17/07/2019".