Mario Erb (born 16 June 1990) is a German

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who plays as a defender for

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II TSG 1899 Hoffenheim II is the reserve team of German association football club TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, based in Hoffenheim, Baden-Württemberg. The team has been playing in the tier four Regionalliga since 2010. History With the rise of the first te ...

Career

Erb joined Bayern Munich in 1996, and progressed through the

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, where he was part of the under-17 team that were

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in 2007. In October 2008, he made his debut for the Bayern reserve team, replacing

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in a 1–1 draw at

Fortuna Düsseldorf Düsseldorfer Turn- und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V., commonly known as Fortuna Düsseldorf (), is a German football club in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, which competes in the 2. Bundesliga. Founded in 1895, Fortuna entered the league ...

. He made one more appearance in the

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that season, and 15 the following year, and established himself as a regular player during the 2010–11 season. With the departure of Maximilian Haas in January 2011, Erb was named as reserve team

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for the remainder of the season. He was unable to prevent the team being relegated, however, and he signed for

Alemannia Aachen Alemannia Aachen () or ATSV Alemannia 1900 is a German football club from the western city of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia. A long term fixture of the country's second division, ''Alemannia'' enjoyed a three-year turn in the Bundesliga in the ...

of the

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in summer 2011. Erb was injured six games into his first season at Aachen, and had to sit out the remainder of the season, which ended in his second consecutive relegation. Aachen were relegated in the 2012–13 season as well, so Erb left the club in summer 2013, returning to

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

to sign for

SpVgg Unterhaching Spielvereinigung Unterhaching () is a German sports club in Unterhaching, a semi-rural municipality on the southern outskirts of the Bavarian capital Munich. The club is widely known for playing in the first-division association football league B ...

. In the summer 2015, Erb joined Rot-Weiß ErfurtMario Erb verstärkt Defensive von Rot-Weiß Erfurt
thueringer-allgemeine.de, 3 June 2015

International career

Erb has represented the Germany youth team at under-17 to under-20 level, and played in all seven matches as the team finished third at the

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