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Manuel Neuer
Neuer with Germany in 2011
Personal information
Full name Manuel Peter Neuer[1]
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)[2][3]
Position(s)

Goalkeeper/ Sweeper

[4]
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 04 156 (0)
2011– Bayern Munich 95 (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 49 (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
Winner Bundesliga 2013
Winner UEFA Champions League 2013
Winner DFB-Pokal 2013
Runner-up DFL-Supercup 2013
Winner UEFA Super Cup 2013
Winner FIFA Club World Cup 2013
Winner Bundesliga 2014
Winner DFB-Pokal 2014
 Germany
Winner UEFA U-21 Championship 2009
Third place FIFA World Cup 2010
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:29, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Manuel Peter Neuer (German pronunciation: [ˈmaːnu̯ɛl ˈnɔʏ.ɐ]; born 27 March 1986) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bayern Munich and the Germany national football team. He is known for his reflexes, excellent shot stopping abilities and distribution of the ball.[5]

Club career

Schalke 04

Neuer in 2005

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 two 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.[6]

On 5 March 2008, in the first knockout round of the UEFA Champions League against FC Porto, he almost single-handedly kept Schalke in the game with several saves and he 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; he was the youngest as well as the only Bundesliga goalkeeper on the list.[7] He was one of only three Bundesliga players to play every minute in the 2007–08 season.

Neuer in 2007

In the 2008–09 season, 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".[8] In November, he was the only German goalkeeper in the list of five nominated goalkeepers for the UEFA Team of the Year.[9] On 20 April 2011, he announced that he would not be extending his contract with Schalke, which was set to expire at the end of the 2011–12 season.[10] He earned criticism by Schalke-fans, who were disappointed with him leaving for a rival club.

Bayern Munich

2011–12

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.[11] 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, only behind Gianluigi Buffon. 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".[12] 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.[13]

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."[14]

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 in their home stadium, the Allianz Arena.

2012–13 season

In the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, Neuer posted four clean sheets in a row versus both Juventus F.C. and FC Barcelona. In the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final, Neuer posted eight saves en route to Bayern's fifth UEFA Champions League title. The game featured great play from both keepers, and Neuer would end up winning the duel against Roman Weidenfeller having only conceded once to İlkay Gündoğan on a penalty shot.

2013–14 season

For the 2013 UEFA Super Cup, on 30 August 2013, he saved the last and decisive penalty which saw FC Bayern Munich win the match against Chelsea, taking some revenge for the lost 2012 UEFA Champions League Final. Neuer was announced as the 2013 World Goalkeeper of the year on 7 January 2014.[15]

On 2 May 2014, Neuer extended his current contract until the summer of 2019.[16]

International career

Youth

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.

2010 World Cup

Neuer was called up on 19 May 2009 to the senior German squad for a tour of Asia.[17] He made his debut on this tour in a match against United Arab Emirates on 2 June.[18] He played in the November friendly against Côte d'Ivoire 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.[19]

Neuer playing for Germany in 2011

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 became Germany's first choice goalkeeper ahead of Tim Wiese and Hans-Jörg Butt for the upcoming tournament.[20]

Neuer was selected as Germany's number one goalkeeper for the World Cup in South Africa.[21] During the group stages, he only conceded a single goal, a close range shot by Milan Jovanović in the match against Serbia. He provided the assist for Miroslav 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.[22]

Euro 2012

He played every minute of every match in the qualification campaign for Euro 2012, helping Germany to secure ten wins out of ten 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 Gómez'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.[23] He started all three of Germany's matches in the oft-dubbed, "Group of Death". He kept a clean sheet against Portugal while also conceding one goal each to the Netherlands and Denmark. 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.

International appearances

As of 30 June 2014

Germany
Year Apps Goals
2009 2 0
2010 13 0
2011 10 0
2012 11 0
2013 8 0
2014 5 0
Total 49 0

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.[24] He got his first football when he was two. He had his first game on 3 March 1991, 24 days before his fifth birthday.[25] Neuer's hero and idol as a child was fellow German and former Schalke goalkeeper Jens Lehmann.[26]

Neuer started a charity foundation for children, named the Manuel Neuer Kids Foundation.[27] In November 2011, he won €500,000 for charity in a celebrity edition of Wer wird Millionär?, the German version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?[28]

Neuer did the voiceover for character Frank McCay in the German version of the 2013 Disney animation Monsters University.[29]

Career statistics

As of 17 May 2014[30]

Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Germany League DFB-Pokal Europe Total
2006–07 Schalke 04 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 Bayern Munich 33 0 5 0 15 0 53 0
2012–13 31 0 5 0 13 0 49 0
2013–14 31 0 5 0 12 0 48 0
Career total 249 0 31 0 68 0 350 0

Honours

Club

Schalke 04
Bayern Munich

International

Germany

Individual

References

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  6. ^ "Neuer good news for Germany". fifa.com. 14 February 2007.
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  8. ^ "Rummenigge talks Neuer interest". fifa.com. 4 June 2009.
  9. ^ "Neuer nominated for UEFA Team of the Year". Schalke04.com. 7 December 2009.
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