Mark Fleks is honored that Louis van Gaal will soon be visiting a SC Freiburg game. The national coach of the Dutch national team surprised Tuesday evening after the World Cup qualifying match with Turkey (6-1) by indicating at the press conference that he was going to look at ‘a goalkeeper in Germany he had never heard of’. That is Flek, the 28-year-old Dutchman who defends SC Freiburg’s goal.
“He seems to be playing very well. We’re going to look at that too. His name is Fleck.” Fleks is pleased but tempers expectations. “It’s great that he calls my name. I did not expect it. It’s nothing yet, we’ll just have to wait and see,” emphasizes the goalkeeper in conversation with 1Limburg. It is not known when Van Gaal will come to watch, and Flek does not need to know that in advance. “I’m concentrating on the Freiburg game and then I hope Van Gaal picks a good pot.”
Fleks got his football qualities from his father and his mother at WDZ. His mother was a football player herself and later a youth leader for the goalkeeper’s team. Roda JC Kerkrade also noticed the talent and Fleks continued his youth education there. In 2011 he left for Alemannia Aachen. Then Greuther Fürth and MSV Duisburg followed. In 2018, he switched to Freiburg, which is now fourth in the Bundesliga with seven points from the first three games.
Fleks made only fifteen appearances in his first three seasons, but this season he has a basic place under coach Christian Streich. In the cup match with Würzburger Kickers (0-1 win) and on the first day of play against Arminia Bielefeld (0-0), he kept a clean sheet. This was followed by victories against Borussia Dortmund (2-1) and VfB Stuttgart (2-3).
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