Andreas Wolf

In the opening game of the season, he scored his first goal of the season, but was substituted off having ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in the 70th minute.

After the match, it was announced that Wolf would be out for six months.

Andreas Wolf (Cyrillic: Андрей Андреевич Вольф, romanized: Andrey Andreyevich Volf; born 12 June 1982) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender.

After moving to Germany with his parents in 1990 Wolf started playing football for several teams in the Ansbach area before joining 1. FC Nürnberg in 1997.

He went on to make three more appearances later in the 2001–02 season while Nürnberg finished in 15th place.

There he played for several junior teams, before breaking into first team football in 2002 when he debuted in the Bundesliga against Hertha on 23 March 2002, which saw Nürnberg lose 2–0.

In the 2002–03 season, Wolf spent the start of the season away from the first team and played for the reserve side instead, also being sidelined due to an ankle injury.

On 7 December 2002 he made his first appearance of the season, setting up one of the goals in a 2–2 draw against Energie Cottbus.

Despite suffering another injury later in the season, Wolf returned to the first team, but was unable to help the club survive relegation in the 2002–03 season during which played in 18 games for the "Club".

In the 2003–04 season, Wolf became a first team regular during Nürnberg's successful promotion campaign, playing in 31 of 34 games.

At the start of the season, he was involved in the first team for the first six matches until his sending off for a second bookable offence, in a 1–1 draw against Greuther Fürth on 22 September 2003.

Despite initially wanting to leave the club, Wolf eventually stayed at the club by signing his first professional contract, keeping him until 2004.

He scored his first Nürnberg goal on 2 April 2004, in a 2–1 loss against Jahn Regensburg.

In the 2004–05 season, Wolf remained in the first team at the start of the season until he suffered a muscle injury that kept him out for two months.

After making his return from injury in a 3–1 loss against Bochum on 27 November 2004, he was sent off for a second bookable offence in the next game on 3 December 2004, a 2–2 draw against Bayern Munich.

As the 2004–05 season progressed, Wolf suffered a shoulder injury that kept him out for the rest of the season.

He finished the 2004–05 season making 18 appearances in all competitions.

In the 2005–06 season, Wolf recovered from injury and found himself competing over a centre–back position with Thomas Paulus and Bartosz Bosacki.

After featuring in three matches since his return in September, he suffered an injury that kept him out for a month.

Following his recovery from injury, he returned to the first team, but was plagued with another injury.

Wolf again returned to the first team and finished the season making 22 appearances in all competitions.

He remained in the first team with his performances earning him a new contract until 2006.

With the start of the 2006–07 season, Wolf was back in the starting line-up alongside fellow centre-back Gláuber.

He started the season well and helped the club go undefeated in the first nine matches of the season before losing 2–1 against Hertha BC on 4 November 2006, in which he was suspended after picking five yellow cards this season.

Although he missed out again due to a back injury he finished the 2006–07 season making 35 appearances in all competitions.

He then scored his first goal of the season on 28 April 2007, in a 1–1 draw against Wolfsburg.

In the 2007–08 season, Wolf continued to be in the first team at the club and scored his first goal of the season on 1 September 2007, in a 1–1 draw against Energie Cottbus.

His second goal came on 11 November 2007, in a 3–1 loss against Arminia Bielefeld.

Nine days later, on 20 September 2007, Wolf made his European debut for the club, playing the whole game in a 0–0 draw against Rapid București in the first leg of UEFA Cup first round.

He suffered injury setbacks in the first half of the season, and later in the 2007–08 season he was suspended twice.

The season saw Nürnberg relegated back to 2.

Bundesliga with Wolf making 30 appearances and scoring twice in all competitions.

In the 2008–09 season, Wolf stayed at the club amid speculations linking him to a transfer to La Liga side Racing Santander.

Following this, he was appointed the new captain.

During the season, he signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2009.

He made his return to training in February and returned to the first team on 22 February 2009, starting and playing 74 minutes in a 1–0 win over Wehen Wiesbaden.

He spent nine seasons at 1. FC Nürnberg captaining the team for many years before leaving for Werder Bremen in the summer of 2011.

Wolf's performance continued to impress, resulting him to sign a contract extension keeping him until 2011.

In January 2012, he moved to AS Monaco where he played until summer 2014.

Following an end to his playing career, Wolf has since moved to coaching.