Patrick Christian Funk (born 11 February 1990) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for TSV Essingen.

Club career

Funk started his career with FV 08 Unterkochen and joined later to SV Ebnat. He was scouted by

SSV Ulm 1846 SSV Ulm 1846 FUSSBALL e.V., commonly known as SSV Ulm 1846 or SSV Ulm, is a Football in Germany, German football club based in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg. SSV Ulm 1846 FUSSBALL was formed on 7 March 2009 as new independent club through the separat ...

. After several years with

he moved to the youth team of

VfB Stuttgart Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e. V. (), commonly known as VfB Stuttgart (), is a German professional sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. The club's Association football, football team is currently part of Germany's f ...

in summer 2002. In July 2011, Funk was loaned out to

FC St. Pauli Fußball-Club St. Pauli von 1910 e.V., commonly known as simply FC St. Pauli (), is a German professional association football, football club based in the St. Pauli district of Hamburg. The team plays in the Bundesliga from the 2024–25 Bundesli ...

until June 2013. For the 2014–15 season, Funk moved to

SV Wehen Wiesbaden SV Wehen Wiesbaden is a German association football club based in Wiesbaden, Hesse. The club was previously known as ''SV Wehen'' but added ''Wiesbaden'' to its name during the summer of 2007. They left their previous ground, the Taunusstein, t ...

International career

Funk was a member of the Germany U21.

Personal life

His brother,

Marius Funk Marius Funk (born 1 January 1996) is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. Club career In April 2014 Marius Funk extended his contract with VfB Stuttgart until 2017. He made his debut for VfB Stuttgart II on 25 July 2015 ...

, is also a professional footballer.

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* * * 1990 births Living people German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders VfB Stuttgart players VfB Stuttgart II players FC St. Pauli players SV Wehen Wiesbaden players VfR Aalen players Germany men's under-21 international footballers Germany men's youth international footballers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players 3. Liga players Footballers from Aalen 21st-century German sportsmen {{germany-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub