 He was given the shirt number 9 at the club.He made his Kaiserslautern debut on 9 August 2008, scoring the team's only goal in their 2–1 defeat to Carl Zeiss Jena in the first round of the DFB-Pokal.In his first league match for the club, a 3–3 away draw at Mainz 05 on 15 August 2008, he was substituted at half-time after the team went 3–0 down in the first half.