Starting right side of the Blues, Jonathan Clauss has had a particularly atypical career since after the Strasbourg training center, the current OM player played in a German sixth division club!
Jonathan Clauss is now a reference in his position in Ligue 1. After his two great seasons with RC Lens, he has fully confirmed his talent at OM, as a right piston and even in the less offensive position of right back since the ‘last summer. The 31-year-old has even found a place in the France team squad during the last two international windows, while Euro 2024 in Germany looms at the end of the season.
The possible culmination of an altogether incredible career, which began in an amateur club across the Rhine. After ten years at the RC Strasbourg training center, Clauss was not selected and in fact joined SV Linx, on the other side of the Franco-German border. This club then played in the fifth and sixth German division!
“ Players who fail from training centers, or who find themselves in the 6th German division, tell themselves that it’s over, that the dream is over. I told myself that too, but there was still a tiny voice, deep inside me, that was still trying to persuade me that I was going to be able to become a pro one day. So, I did everything to try to become one on my own scale, whether in the 6th German division or later in CFA 2 in Raon-l’Etape. I wasn’t putting everything into it yet because there was a gap between wanting to become a pro and making sure I became one. », says the player in The Team.
Psychologically rebuilt (his parents had divorced), Clauss climbed the ranks each year playing for US Raon-l’Étape in CFA 2, US Avranches in National then Quevilly-Rouen in Ligue 2 before joining the Arminia Bielefeld in Bundesliga 2, where he was spotted by Lensois.
