World Cup winner Hoewedes commits future to Schalke

BERLIN (Reuters) - Schalke 04 captain Benedikt Hoewedes said he would not play for another club in Germany after signing a three-year contract extension until 2020 on Wednesday. The 2014 World Cup winner with Germany has been at Schalke since 2001 and cannot envisage leaving a "unique club". "I have said it before that I will play for no other club in the Bundesliga. At a time of the I, I want to stand for the We. For trust and loyalty," the central defender, currently injured, said in a statement. "I will defend those words on and off the pitch." The 27-year-old rugged defender joined the club as a youth player, breaking through to the senior team in 2007. Schalke are fourth in the Bundesliga, two points off third-placed Hertha Berlin and battling for a Champions League place. (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; editing by Justin Palmer)