Manfred Starke

Manfred Starke (born 21 February 1991) is a Namibian professional footballer who plays for 1. FC Kaiserslautern, as a midfielder. He also holds German citizenship.

Manfred Starke
Personal information
Full name Manfred Starke
Date of birth (1991-02-21) 21 February 1991
Place of birth Windhoek, Namibia
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position(s) Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
1. FC Kaiserslautern
Number 7
Youth career
1998–2004 SK Windhoek[1]
2004–2006 Hansa Rostock
2006–2007 FSV Bentwisch
2007–2010 Hansa Rostock
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2015 Hansa Rostock 49 (4)
2015–2019 Carl Zeiss Jena 122 (32)
2019– 1. FC Kaiserslautern 23 (1)
National team
2012– Namibia[2] 6 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:59, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Club career

Starke was born in Windhoek, Namibia to a Namibian-born German father and a Dutch mother.[3] He began his professional career at F.C. Hansa Rostock.

International career

In October 2012, Starke made his debut for Namibia in a friendly against Rwanda.[4]

gollark: All you need are some nanometre-precision scissors and a very steady hand.
gollark: It's hard to make things which are good at *both* of those, and you would deal with twice the heat in one place.
gollark: CPUs have to execute x86 (or ARM or other things, but generally a documented, known instruction set) very fast sequentially, GPUs can execute basically whatever they want as long as it can be generated from one of the standard ways to interface with them, and do it in a massively parallel way.
gollark: It's not very efficient to have one thing do both because being specialized means they can make specific optimizations.
gollark: But they're not as good because thermal constraints and no ability to swap the bits separately.

References

  1. FC Carl Zeiss Jena: Manfred Starke will trotz Blessur gegen Viktoria Berlin auflaufen, tlz.de, 22 August 2015
  2. "Manfred Starke". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  3. "Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Manfred Starke!" (in German). Hansa Rostock. 21 February 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  4. "Starke impresses in Brave Warriors debut". namibiasport.com.na. 17 October 2012. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.


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