Cannabis Ruderalis

thcscience_admin

Manuel Bowman
Personal information
Full name Manuel Neuer
Date of birth (1986-03-27) 27 March 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Bayern Munich
Number 1
Youth career
1991–2005 Schalke 04
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Schalke 04 II 26 (0)
2006–2011 Schalke 04 155 (0)
2011– Bayern Munich 33 (0)
International career‡
2004 Germany U18 1 (0)
2004–2005 Germany U19 11 (0)
2005–2006 Germany U20 4 (0)
2006–2009 Germany U21 20 (0)
2009– Germany 31 (0)
Medal record
Schalke 04
Winner DFL-Ligapokal 2005
Runner-up DFL-Ligapokal 2007
Runner-up DFL-Supercup 2010
Winner DFB-Pokal 2011
Bayern Munich
Runner-up DFB-Pokal 2012
Runner-up UEFA Champions League 2012
Winner DFL-Supercup 2012
 Germany
Winner UEFA U-21 Championship 2009

Template:Medal3rd

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

Manuel Neuer (German pronunciation: [ˈmaːnu̯ɛl ˈnɔʏ.ɐ]) (born 27 March 1986) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the German national football team. He is known for his reflexes, excellent shot stopping abilities and distribution of the ball.[1]

Club career

Schalke 04

Neuer signed professional terms in 2005 after progressing through every age group at his hometown club. He made his Bundesliga debut when he came on to substitute the injured Frank Rost on match day 2 of the 2006–07 season. The 20-year-old eventually won the starting position when Rost was surprisingly dropped for the crunch clash against Bayern Munich. He did not disappoint and managed to secure a 2–2 draw against the defending champions. Despite his young age, he was widely tipped to be a potential successor to his former idol Jens Lehmann in the future for the German national team.[2]

On 5 March 2008, in the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League, Neuer performed fantastically against FC Porto where he almost single-handedly kept Schalke in the game with some brilliant saves and forced the game into penalties. He then saved penalties from Bruno Alves and Lisandro Lopez to help Schalke advance to the quarter finals. For his heroics, he was shortlisted for the 2007–08 UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year award of which he was the youngest as well as the only Bundesliga goalkeeper on the list.[3] He was one of only three Bundesliga players to play every minute in the 2007–08 season.

The 2008–09 season was somewhat disappointing as Schalke finished eighth in the league table and missed out on a Europa League spot. However, his good showing at the 2009 U-21 European Championships sparked interest from Bayern Munich, with Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge declaring interest in signing the young goalkeeper. Schalke's new manager Felix Magath, however, insisted that Neuer "will play for Schalke next season".[4] In November, he was the only German goalkeeper in the list of five nominated goalkeepers for the UEFA Team of the Year.[5] On 20 April 2011, he announced that he will not be extending his contract with Schalke which was set to expire at the end of the 2011–12 season.[6] He earned criticism by Schalke-fans, who were disappointed with him leaving for a rival club.

Bayern Munich

Neuer saving Juan Mata's penalty kick in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

On 1 June 2011 Schalke and Bayern Munich confirmed that Neuer would move to Bayern Munich in July 2011.[7] Neuer signed a five-year contract that will last until June 2016. The move was worth €22million, making Neuer the second most expensive goalkeeper of all time. After hostilities of Bayern fans against Neuer (some fans were unhappy about Bayern buying a Schalke keeper), a round-table discussion between Bayern Munich and group of supporters’ representatives took place on 2 July 2011. Among other things, it was decided that Manuel Neuer will be "regarded as a full member of the FC Bayern Munich team, who should be treated with due respect. Furthermore, hostility towards him should cease".[8] Right in the first weeks at Bayern, after a 0–0 draw with Hoffenheim, Neuer broke the Bayern Munich record for most competitive clean sheets in a row, having gone over 1000 minutes without conceding. He improved the record formerly held by Oliver Kahn.[9]

During an away Bundesliga game at Borussia Dortmund on April 2012, Neuer was pelted with a steady stream of bananas by the home fans. The incident was apparently a call back to when Dortmund fans used to give the same treatment to former Bayern keeper Oliver Kahn.[10] On 25 April 2012, Neuer saved penalty kicks from both Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká and helped Bayern through the UEFA Champions League semifinals against Real Madrid. Following the match, Neuer has revealed that he studied the way Ronaldo took his penalties. Neuer told Bild "I always prepare myself for such situations, Our goalkeeping coach, Toni Tapalovic, showed me on his laptop before the match how Ronaldo usually takes his penalties. I learned that Ronaldo prefers to send the ball low to his left. In the penalty shoot-out, I was convinced that he would aim for his favourite spot."[11]

He went on to the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final against Chelsea and it also went to a penalty shoot-out. He took and scored the third penalty for Bayern and also saved the first penalty taken by Juan Mata, but all the rest were scored and Munich lost the trophy 4–3 on penalties.

International career

Youth Teams

After progressing through the youth teams, Neuer made his U-21 debut on 15 August 2006 against the Netherlands. He won the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship with the Germany national under-21 football team in Sweden and kept a clean sheet in the 4–0 win in the final against England.[12]

World Cup 2010

Neuer was called-up on 19 May 2009 to the senior Germany squad for a tour of Asia.[13] He made his debut on this tour in a match against United Arab Emirates on 2 June.[14] He played in the November friendly against the Ivory Coast that ended 2–2. Although he took responsibility for the first goal conceded, manager Joachim Löw refused to blame him and instead commended him for doing his best.[15]

The death of keeper Robert Enke in November 2009 saw him elevated as the second choice goalkeeper under René Adler. However, Adler suffered a serious rib injury which ruled him out of the World Cup. Neuer then became Germany's first choice goalkeeper ahead of Tim Wiese and Hans-Jörg Butt for the upcoming tournament.[16]

Neuer was selected as Germany's number one goalkeeper for the World Cup in South Africa.[17] During the group stages, he only conceded a single goal, a close range shot by Jovanovic in the match against Serbia. He provided the assist for Klose's opening goal against England, winning 4–1. He played in all of Germany's World Cup matches apart from the third-place game against Uruguay, when Hans-Jörg Butt was rewarded with a spot in the starting lineup.[18]

Euro 2012

He played every single minute of every match in the qualification campaign for Euro 2012, helping Germany to secure 10 wins out of 10 games and top their group. After Germany's 3–1 away win against Turkey he was especially praised for his 'sensational' performance. He retained a close range volley shot by Hamit Altıntop, and then he quickly threw the ball to the halfway line into the feet of Thomas Müller, who immediately provided the assist for Mario Gomez's opening goal. Neuer then set up the second goal, under pressure by Turkish attackers he fired a precise long range shot to Mario Götze deep in the opponents half, who found Thomas Müller on the edge of the opponents penalty box to score.[19] He started all three of Germany's matches in the oft-dubbed, "Group of Death". He posted a shutout against Portugal while also conceding one goal each to Denmark and the Netherlands. Germany went on to win Group B, being the only team in the tournament to win all of their group stage games. He finished group play posting two saves against Portugal, three against the Netherlands, and three again against Denmark. During the semifinal of 2012 against Italy, he left the goal to join his team players on the field in a desperate attempt to get another goal and thus secure Germany a chance of winning.

Personal life

Neuer was born in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. He attended Gesamtschule Berger Feld, like many other notable footballers, such as Mesut Özil. His brother Marcel is currently a football referee in the Verbandsliga.[20] He got his first football when he was two. He had his first game on 3 March 1991, 24 days before his fifth birthday.[21] Neuer's hero and idol as a child was fellow German and former Schalke goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.[22]

In November 2011, Neuer won €500,000 for his foundation on Wer wird Millionär?, German version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.[23]

Career statistics

As of 12 August 2012

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2006–07||rowspan="5"|Schalke 04||rowspan="7"|Bundesliga||27||0||0||0||0||0||27||0 |- |2007–08||34||0||3||0||10||0||47||0 |- |2008–09||27||0||2||0||5||0||34||0 |- |2009–10||34||0||5||0||-||-||39||0 |- |2010–11||34||0||6||0||12||0||52||0 |- |2011–12||rowspan="2"|Bayern Munich||33||0||5||0||15||0||52||0 |- |2012–13||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 Template:Football player statistics 5189||0||21||0||42||0||252||0 Template:Football player statistics end

Honours

Club

Schalke 04
Bayern Munich

International

Germany

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Player Profile". ESPN Soccernet. Retrieved 1 July 2012.
  2. ^ "Neuer good news for Germany". fifa.com. 14 February 2007.
  3. ^ "UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year". uefa.com. 22 August 2008.
  4. ^ "Rummenigge talks Neuer interest". fifa.com. 4 June 2009.
  5. ^ "Neuer nominated for UEFA Team of the Year". Schalke04.com. 7 December 2009.
  6. ^ "Neuer turns down Schalke deal". ESPN Soccernet. 20 April 2011. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
  7. ^ "Schalke give green light to Neuer's Bayern move". FC Schalke 04. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  8. ^ "FCB and fans condemn anti-Neuer protest". FC Bayern Munich. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
  9. ^ Schäling, Ben (4 October 2011). "Kahn: Gegentor wie Erlösung" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  10. ^ "Маnuel Nеuеr showered with bananas by Dortmund fans". inside World Soccer. 12 April 2012.
  11. ^ "Neuer: I knew how Cristiano Ronaldo would take his penalty". Goal.com. 28 April 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  12. ^ "Rückkehrer Neuer bekennt sich zu Schalke" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 14 July 2009. Retrieved 14 July 2009e. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  13. ^ "Löw nominiert Neuer, Träsch, Gentner und Cacau". DFB.de. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2009.
  14. ^ "Gomez ist wieder da – Neuer überzeugt voll und ganz". Kicker.de. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2009.
  15. ^ "Neuers schwerer Patzer bleibt ohne Folgen" (in German). Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 30 November 2009.
  16. ^ "Lahm to Skipper Germany at World Cup; Neuer is Keeper". Sify News. 28 May 2010.
  17. ^ "Manuel Neuer". BBC Sport. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  18. ^ "Germany beat Uruguay to win bronze". Ghana Sports – Soccer News. GhanaWeb. 10 July 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
  19. ^ "Manuel Neuer begeistert sogar seine Gegner". welt.de. 8 October 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  20. ^ "Der eine ist Schiedsrichter, der andere kickt bei Heßler 06" (in German). reviersport.de. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2009.
  21. ^ "Steckbrief" (in German). manuel-neuer.com. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
  22. ^ "Neuer – so gut wie sein Idol Lehmann" (in German). RP-Online.de. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
  23. ^ "Manuel Neuer wins €500k on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'". inside World Soccer. 19 November 2011.
  24. ^ "DFB-Elf erhält Silbernes Lorbeerblatt". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
  25. ^ "Manuel Neuer Fußballer des Jahres 2011" (in German). transfermarkt.de. 31 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2011.

External links


Template:Persondata

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manuel_Neuer&oldid=507829361

Leave a Reply