Tim Wiese
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Tim Wiese | ||
| Date of birth | 17 December 1981 | ||
| Place of birth | Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Werder Bremen | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1987–1991 | DJK Dürscheid | ||
| 1991–1999 | Bayer Leverkusen | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1999–2001 | Fortuna Köln | 23 | (0) |
| 2002–2005 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 65 | (0) |
| 2005– | Werder Bremen | 179 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2003–2005 | Germany U21 | 13 | (0) |
| 2006– | Germany | 5 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 06:57, 30 December 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Tim Wiese (German pronunciation: [ˈtɪm ˈviːzə]; born 17 December 1981 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German goalkeeper who currently plays for Werder Bremen and the German national team. He joined Werder Bremen in 2005 from Kaiserslautern in the Bundesliga.
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[edit] Club career
[edit] Fortuna Köln
He started his playing career at Bayer Leverkusen's youth system, before moving to Fortuna Köln, where he made his first-team debut in the German third division in 2000.
[edit] Kaiserslautern
He moved to Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern in the winter break of the 2001–02 season and initially played for their reserve squad in the third division and served as backup for Georg Koch and Roman Weidenfeller in the first team. Following Weidenfeller's transfer to Borussia Dortmund, he fought with Koch for the place of the first goalkeeper and made his Bundesliga debut at the beginning of the 2002–03 season, being replaced by Koch after conceding four goals in two matches. After the winter break, however, he managed to secure himself the position of the first-choice goalkeeper and established himself as one of the most talented new keepers in the Bundesliga. He was considered first-choice throughout the 2003–04 season, despite being sent off during the 2nd match of the season (the first of two red cards he has received during his league career). He remained the first goalkeeper for Kaiserslautern until late November 2004, when he lost his place to veteran Thomas Ernst.
[edit] Werder Bremen
Wiese moved to Bremen in 2005 and was favoured to replace the aging Andreas Reinke, but tore his cruciate ligaments twice and missed the entire first part of the season. In a twist of fate, due to a bad injury to Reinke in away match at VfB Stuttgart in February 2006, Wiese made his Bundesliga debut for Werder Bremen and remained their first goalkeeper for the rest of the 2005–06 season.
However, Wiese (who is often compared to former German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn for his emotional outbursts) had a shaky start, his low point was a stunning gaffe against Juventus in the 2nd round of the Champions League on 7 March 2006. With only two minutes of the game left to play, and Werder Bremen on course to reach the quarter-finals, he made a routine catch but then somehow let go of the ball as he rolled on the ground, allowing Emerson to score and Juventus to progress. However, he has stabilized since then, and was vital for Bremen's late surge that moved them past rivals Hamburg to claim second place during the 2005–06 season. Despite this resurgence, he has still struggled to shake off the shackles of his humiliation against Juventus, his most high profile contribution to world football.
In the 2006–07 season, he eventually established himself as the first goalkeeper at Werder Bremen and only missed three Bundesliga matches throughout the season. In the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal semi-final against Hamburg, Wiese helped Werder Bremen progress to the final when he saved 3 consecutive penalties.
[edit] International career
He earned his first international cap for Germany against England on 19 November 2008, when he came in as a substitute for René Adler at the beginning of the second half.[1]
He was a squad member for Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but was the only player not seeing any action as an understudy to Schalke 04 goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and was denied an appearance in the third-place playoff due to injury, enabling Bayern Munich veteran Hans-Jörg Butt to step in.
[edit] Career statistics
[edit] Club performance
- As of 11 October 2011[update]
| Club performance | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
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| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Germany | League | DFB-Pokal | Europe | Total | ||||||
| 2000–01 | Fortuna Köln | Regionalliga Nord | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 3 | 0 |
| 2001–02 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 21 | 0 | ||
| Kaiserslautern II | Regionalliga Süd | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 11 | 0 | |
| 2002–03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 4 | 0 | ||
| Kaiserslautern | Bundesliga | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | 26 | 0 | |
| 2003–04 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 0 | ||
| 2004–05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | 14 | 0 | ||
| 2005–06 | Werder Bremen | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
| 2006–07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||
| 2007–08 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | ||
| 2008–09 | 29 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 46 | 0 | ||
| 2009–10 | 31 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 47 | 0 | ||
| 2010–11 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 37 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 276 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 354 | 0 | ||
[edit] Honours
- DFB-Pokal: 2008–09
- DFB-Supercup: 2009
- DFB-Ligapokal: 2006
[edit] National team
- FIFA World Cup 2010: Third place - Bronze medal
[edit] References
- ^ "Deutschland – England". Kicker.de. 19 November 2008. http://www.kicker.de/news/live-news/livescores/livematch/object/843715. Retrieved 19 February 2009.
[edit] External links
- Official website (German)
- Tim Wiese at werder.de
- Tim Wiese at transfermarkt.de (German)
- Tim Wiese at fussballdaten.de (German)
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