Mario Gómez

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Mario Gómez
Gómez with Germany in 2011.
Personal information
Full name Mario Gómez García
Date of birth (1985-07-10) 10 July 1985 (age 38)
Place of birth Riedlingen, West Germany
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Bayern Munich
Number 33
Youth career
SV Unlingen
FV Bad Saulgau
1999–2001 SSV Ulm 1846
2001–2003 VfB Stuttgart
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 VfB Stuttgart II 43 (21)
2003–2009 VfB Stuttgart 121 (63)
2009– Bayern Munich 93 (64)
International career‡
2005–2006 Germany U-21 9 (1)
2005 Germany B 2 (1)
2007– Germany[1] 51 (21)
Medal record
VfB Stuttgart
Winner Bundesliga 2007
Runner-up DFB-Pokal 2007
Bayern Munich
Winner Bundesliga 2010
Winner DFB-Pokal 2010
Runner-up UEFA Champions League 2010
Winner DFL-Supercup 2010
 Germany
Runner-up European Championship 2008

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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:21, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:11, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Mario Gómez García (German pronunciation: [ˈmaːʁioː ˈɡɔmɛs]; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾio ˈɣomeθ]; born 10 July 1985 in Riedlingen) is a German footballer who plays as a striker for FC Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga and the German national team. Gómez joined Bayern after six years in Stuttgart. The fee was a record for a player transferred in the Bundesliga, estimated to be €30–35 million. When Stuttgart became champions in 2006–07, Gómez contributed 14 goals and 7 assists at the age of 21 and was selected German footballer of the year.

Style of play

Gómez can shoot with both legs, and considered as an aerial threat. His best ability however remains as his anticipation to crosses and passes and finish them. Arsène Wenger described him as "a great finisher who is often in the right place to finish off moves." Moreover, his body balance and ability to hold up the ball often creates trouble for defenders. During his time at Bayern, his ability to appear "at the right place at the right time" proved to be one of Bayern's most lethal attacking weapons as Ribéry and Robben can often out-run defenders and provide a cross for Gómez.

Personal life

Gómez was raised in Unlingen, an Upper Swabian village in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany about 95 km south of Stuttgart and 175 km west of Munich. He was born in the nearby town of Riedlingen. Gómez is of German-Spanish descent (his father is a Spaniard from Granada and his mother is German). He has both German and Spanish citizenship and decided to play for the German national team. His first appearance for the team was in February 2007 against Switzerland and he has been called up regularly since.

Gómez thinks gay players should come out and thinks "they would play as if they had been liberated".[2] He also would like a "radical rethink" about homosexuality in football.[2]

Club career

VfB Stuttgart

In 2004, Gómez played 10 minutes for VfB Stuttgart in the Champions League in a game against Chelsea on 9 March and made his debut in the Bundesliga (national league) on 8 May.

In the 2004–05 season, playing for VfB Stuttgart's team in the Regionalliga Süd (Regional League South, then part of the third tier of German football after the national team and the Bundesliga), he scored 15 times in 24 games and was to be capped eight times in the first team.

In the 2005–06 season, Gómez joined the first team permanently. He played 30 times in the Bundesliga, scoring six times at this level, his first goal coming on 17 September 2005. The striker also played five times in the UEFA Cup, scoring twice, and in three times in the DFB-Pokal.

In the 2006–07 season the youngster established himself as one of the top scorers in the Bundesliga. However, he broke his hand on 10 March 2007 and suffered a torn ligament in his left knee. He made his comeback on 12 May 2007, and immediately scored after coming on from the bench. In that game, VfB Stuttgart defeated VfL Bochum (3–2) and went two points clear heading into the Bundesliga's final weekend where they won at home against Energie Cottbus, thus becoming German champions. Furthermore, VfB Stuttgart also reached final of the DFB-Pokal, where Gómez participated, but VfB Stuttgart lost to 1. FC Nuremberg. After the season, he was named German Footballer of the Year for 2007. Gómez extended his contract at VfB Stuttgart until 2012.

While, in the 2007–08 season, the rest of his team struggled to keep performing at their 2006–07 season standards, Gómez remained at an astonishingly high level, scoring 19 goals in 25 appearances, second in the Bundesliga's Top Scorer list, just behind Bayern Munich's Luca Toni who scored 24 times. In the cup Gómez was even the top scorer with six goals.[3] Because of his recent development, many big clubs have been interested in the 23 year old forward. Gómez has recently gained the nickname "Mr. Zuverlässig" ("Mr. Reliable"), as seen in his second of three goals against Bundesliga rival Werder Bremen (final score 6–3), where he managed to net in a virtually unreachable pass by teammate Yıldıray Baştürk. In the 2008–09 season Gómez hit four goals to inspire VfB Stuttgart to a 4–1 victory over Bundesliga leaders VfL Wolfsburg.

FC Bayern Munich

2009–10 season

On 26 May 2009, Gómez was eventually transferred to Bayern Munich on a Bundesliga record transfer fee, signing a four-year contract. The amount of the transfer fee varies from 30–35 million euro, depending on different sources.[4][5][6] Gómez was not scoring like his usual self in his first season for Bayern with just 10 goals but in the cup he was more prolific with 3 goals in just four games, unfortunately Gómez was short of assists as well as goals. Quite surprisingly he made an impact as he was to start the majority of games next season for Bayern. Also in his first season Gómez was teamed up with his international strike partner Miroslav Klose to give him some first team experience.

2010–11 season

After an erratic first season at Bayern with 10 goals in 29 league appearances,[7] Gómez established himself as a starter during the 2010–11 season (to an extent at the expense of Miroslav Klose and due to the injury sustained by Ivica Olić) and finished as top goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 28 goals.[8] He scored his 100th Bundesliga goal with his third strike in a 1–8 away victory over FC St. Pauli on 7 May 2011,[9] the hat-trick already being his fifth in the Bundesliga in the 2010–11 season, and his sixth overall, adding in his hat-trick against Cluj in the Champions League. Gómez has scored 13 hat-tricks in his Bundesliga career, three with Stuttgart and ten with Bayern. Gómez also netted eight times in the Champions League and finished in second place in this season's top scorers, tied with Samuel Eto'o,[10] although Bayern were eliminated in the Round of 16 by Internazionale. Gómez overall in all competitions scored 39 goals.[11]

2011–12 season

Gómez started the 2011–12 season in similar style towards the previous season and he opened his league account on 20 August 2011 in Bayern's thrashing of Hamburger SV. Seven days later Gómez scored a hat-trick away to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. On 10 September, Gómez then netted four goals in Bayern Munich's 7–0 rout of Freiburg. Gómez also scored a brace against Hertha BSC when Bayern won 4–0. Gómez then got another brace on 29 October when Bayern then defeated 1. FC Nuremberg 4–0. Then on 11 December 2011, he scored his third brace of the season and sealed Bayern's 2–1 win over Stuttgart On 2 November 2011, he netted a hat-trick in a Champions League group stage game against Serie A club S.S.C. Napoli. Bayern went on to win 3–2. In the DFB-Pokal Gómez has scored just two goals. On 16 December 2011, Gómez scored his 50th goal for the calendar year of 2011 against 1. FC Köln.

The 13 March brought the second leg of their Champions League tie against FC Basel; the match saw the Bavarians overturn their 1–0 away loss as Gómez netted four of Bayern's seven goals, firing the Bavarians through to the quarter-finals 7–1 on aggregate.[12] In the quarter-finals, Bayern faced Ligue 1 side Marseille and in the first-leg on 28 March,[13] Gómez fired in his 11th Champions League goal of the campaign in a 2–0 win for the Bavarians.[14]

On 4 April, Gómez signed a new contract with Bayern Munich, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2016.[15][16]

International career

Euro 2008

Gómez has both German and Spanish citizenship, but played for all German youth national teams from age 17. He made his debut for the German national team against Switzerland on 7 February 2007. Germany won the match 3–1, with Gómez scoring Germany's second goal. Gómez gained his second cap for Germany, coming on as a substitute for Kevin Kurányi in a Euro 2008 qualifier against San Marino, scoring two goals that contributed to a final 6–0 victory.

After Gómez impressed in pre-tournament friendlies, Joachim Löw called him up to the German squad for Euro 2008. Löw broke up the strike partnership of Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose with Podolski moving out to the left wing at the expense of talismanic midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger and Gómez partnering Klose up front. Unfortunately, he was not able to reproduce his club form and missed several clear-cut chances including a crucial one in the last group match against Austria. Germany eventually won courtesy of a Michael Ballack free kick to seal a place in the knock-out stages but Löw dropped Gómez to the bench and reverted back to the Podolski-Klose partnership. He was an unused substitute in the quarterfinal and semifinal and later came off the bench in the final of Euro 2008 for Miroslav Klose but could not prevent Germany from losing 1–0 to Spain.

World Cup 2010

In a friendly match against the United Arab Emirates played on 2 June 2009, Gómez netted four goals, ending his 15-game goal drought for the national team,[17] in Germany's 7–2 thrashing.

Gómez was named as one of the six strikers in Joachim Löw's 23-man squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He featured in four out of seven German matches at the World Cup, all from the substitutes bench against Australia, replacing Mesut Özil in the 73rd minute, Serbia, coming on for left back Holger Badstuber in the 77th minute, England, coming on for fellow forward Miroslav Klose in the 72nd minute and Spain replacing defensive midfielder Sami Khedira on 80 minutes. Again he did not score a goal at a major tournament.

Euro 2012

Although being the second choice behind Miroslav Klose as center-forward during Germany's qualification for Euro 2012, Gómez played regularly and contributed goals against every opponent of that campaign: Kazakhstan, Austria, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Belgium. This includes two goals against Austria in Germany's 2–1 away win in the Ernst-Happel-Stadion, netting into the very same goal in which despite good goalscoring opportunities he couldn't score three years earlier during Euro 2008, a performance for which he was criticized by the German media and fans of the Mannschaft. Observers saw him overcome a little trauma and in a spontaneous gesture of relief, he kissed the goalpost after he scored the first goal.[18]

Prior to the Euro 2012 in an 3–3 draw against Ukraine in the opening game at the renewed Olympic Stadion of Kiev – the site of the Euro 2012 final match – Gómez captained Germany for the first time. It was his 50th international cap, and aged 26, he was Germany's oldest player in the starting lineup.[19]

Career statistics

Club statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Club League Season Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Germany League DFB-Pokal DFB-Ligapokal Europe Other1 Total
VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga 2003–04 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 2 0
VfB Stuttgart II Regionalliga Süd 19 6 0 0 — — 19 6
VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga 2004–05 8 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 0
VfB Stuttgart II Regionalliga Süd 24 15 0 0 — — 24 15
VfB Stuttgart Bundesliga 2005–06 30 6 0 0 3 0 5 2 38 8
2006–07 25 14 5 2 — — 30 16
2007–08 25 19 3 6 0 0 4 3 33 28
2008–09 32 24 2 3 — 10 8 — 44 35
Bayern Munich 2009–10 29 10 4 3 12 1 — 45 14
2010–11 32 28 5 3 8 8 0 0 45 39
2011–12 32 26 4 2 13 13 — 49 41
VfB Stuttgart II 43 21 0 0 — — — 43 21
VfB Stuttgart 121 63 11 11 3 0 21 13 0 0 157 87
Bayern Munich 93 64 13 8 — 34 23 0 0 140 95
Career statistics 258 149 24 19 3 0 54 35 0 0 339 203
Last update: 28 April 2012[20]
  • 1.^ Statistics includes DFL-Supercup.

International goals

Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first:
Goal Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 7 February 2007 LTU Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany   Switzerland 2–0 3–1 Friendly
2. 2 June 2007 Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany  San Marino 4–0 6–0 UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
3. 2 June 2007 Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany  San Marino 5–0 6–0 UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
4. 6 February 2008 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria  Austria 3–0 3–0 Friendly
5. 26 March 2008 St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland   Switzerland 2–0 4–0 Friendly
6. 26 March 2008 St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland   Switzerland 3–0 4–0 Friendly
7. 2 June 2009 Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates 2–0 7–2 Friendly
8. 2 June 2009 Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates 4–0 7–2 Friendly
9. 2 June 2009 Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates 5–0 7–2 Friendly
10. 2 June 2009 Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates  United Arab Emirates 7–2 7–2 Friendly
11. 5 September 2009 BayArena, Leverkusen, Germany  South Africa 1–0 2–0 Friendly
12. 29 May 2010 Stadium Puskás Ferenc, Budapest, Hungary  Hungary 2–0 3–0 Friendly
13. 11 August 2010 Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark  Denmark 1–0 2–2 Friendly
14. 12 October 2010 Astana Arena, Astana, Kazakhstan  Kazakhstan 2–0 3–0 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
15. 29 March 2011 Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany  Australia 1–0 1–2 Friendly
16. 29 May 2011 Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim, Germany  Uruguay 1–0 2–1 Friendly
17. 3 June 2011 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria  Austria 1–0 2–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
18. 3 June 2011 Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria  Austria 2–1 2–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
19. 7 June 2011 Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan  Azerbaijan 2–0 3–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
20. 7 October 2011 Turk Telekom Arena, Istanbul, Turkey  Turkey 1–0 3–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying
21. 11 October 2011 Esprit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany  Belgium 3–0 3–1 UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying

Honours

Club

VfB Stuttgart

Bayern Munich

National team

Germany

Individual

References

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  2. ^ a b Connolly, Kate (11 November 2010). "Germany and Bayern star Mario Gomez urges gay footballers to go public". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  3. ^ "DFB Pokal 2007/08 Top Scorers". weltfussball.de (in German). June 2008. Retrieved 19 August 2008.
  4. ^ Grohmann, Karolos (26 May 2009). "Stuttgart's Gomez joins Bayern Munich". Reuters. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
  5. ^ "Gomez wechselt zu Bayern – Interesse an Neuer". Die Welt (in German). 26 May 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
  6. ^ Krass, Sebastian (21 July 2009). "Mann unter besonderer Beobachtung". Financial Times Deutschland (in German). Retrieved 9 August 2009.
  7. ^ "Gomez, Mario" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  8. ^ "1. Bundesliga - Torjäger" (in German). kicker.de. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Facts and stats from the St Pauli clash". FC Bayern Munich. 7 May 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Top scorer Messi matches Van Nistelrooy mark". UEFA.com. 28 May 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  11. ^ Corradino, Rafael (30 May 2011). "Mario Gomez: I will always offer my services to Germany". goal.com. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  12. ^ "Bayern Munich 7 Basel 0 (agg 7-1): Blitz in Bavaria as Gomez nets four". dailymail.co.uk. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  13. ^ "Robben stars as Bayern triumph at Marseille". UEFA.com. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  14. ^ "Bayern take big step towards semi-finals". ESPN Soccernet. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
  15. ^ "Mario Gomez signs new Bayern Munich deal". Goal.com. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  16. ^ "Gomez pens new Bayern deal". ESPN Soccernet. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  17. ^ "Gomez ist wieder da – Neuer überzeugt voll und ganz". kicker (in German). 2 June 2009. Retrieved 14 October 2011.
  18. ^ "Gomez überwindet Trauma" (in German). n-tv. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
  19. ^ "Kapitänsbinde macht Gomez stolz" (in German). n-tv. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2011.
  20. ^ "Mario Gomez > Club Matches". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 14 May 2011.

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