Bastian Schweinsteiger

German association football player

Bastian Schweinsteiger (born 1 August 1984, in Kolbermoor, Germany) is a German football player. He plays as midfielder for Chicago Fire and the Germany national team. He has a brother, Tobias, who is also a footballer and is playing for Unterhaching on loan in the third German league. As of 11 July 2015, Schweinsteiger was transferred under a disclosed fee to Manchester United after Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge announced the transfer in a press conference. Schweinsteiger has been in a relationship with Ana Ivanovic since September 2014. The couple married on 12 July 2016 in Venice.

Bastian Schweinsteiger
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Schweinsteiger with Chicago Fire in 2017
Personal information
Full name Bastian Schweinsteiger[1]
Date of birth (1984-08-01) 1 August 1984 (age 38)[1]
Place of birth Kolbermoor, West Germany
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1990–1992 FV Oberaudorf
1992–1998 TSV 1860 Rosenheim
1998–2002 Bayern Munich
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2005 Bayern Munich II 34 (2)
2002–2015 Bayern Munich 342 (45)
2015–2017 Manchester United 18 (1)
2017–2019 Chicago Fire 85 (8)
Total 479 (56)
National team
2000 Germany U16 1 (0)
2001–2002 Germany U18 11 (2)
2002–2003 Germany U19 7 (2)
2004 Germany U21 7 (2)
2004–2016 Germany 121 (24)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

CareerEdit

ClubEdit

Schweinsteiger signed with Bayern Munich as a youth team player on 1 July 1998 and soon was successful with the youth teams and the second team. He made his debut in the first team as substitute in an UEFA Championsleague match versus RC Lens in November 2002. onla a short time later he signed a professional contract for the first team. He shot his first Bayern goal against VfL Wolfsburg in September 2003.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season he was sent back to the second team but soon came back. Over the next three seasons, up until the end of 2007–08, Schweinsteiger made 135 appearances in all competitions for Bayern Munich (UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup), scoring 10 goals. In December 2010, he prolonged his contract with Bayern until 2016. However, in July 2015 Schweinsteiger made a move to Manchester United.

InternationalEdit

Schweinsteiger made his international debut in 2004 in a friendly against Hungary. Since that time he played regularly in the German football national team. He was member of the Euro 2004 and 2008 - and World Cup 2006, 2010 and 2014 squads.

International goalsEdit

[3]

Club career statisticsEdit

As of 10 May 2014
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total Ref.
Club League Season App. Gl. App. Gl. App. Gl. App. Gl. App. Gl. App. Gl.
Germany League DFB-Pokal DFB-Ligapokal Europe Other1 Total
Bayern Munich II Regionalliga Süd 2001–02 4 0 4 0
2002–03 23 2 23 2
Bayern Munich Bundesliga 14 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 17 2 [4]
2003–04 26 4 3 0 1 0 3 0 33 4 [5]
Bayern Munich II Regionalliga Süd 3 0 3 0
2004–05 3 0 3 0 [6]
Bayern Munich II total 33 2 0 0 33 2
Bayern Munich Bundesliga 2004–05 26 3 6 0 0 0 7 1 39 4 [6]
2005–06 30 3 4 0 1 0 7 0 42 3 [7]
2006–07 27 4 3 0 2 0 8 2 40 6 [8]
2007–08 30 1 4 0 2 1 12 0 48 2 [9]
2008–09 31 5 4 2 9 2 44 9 [10]
2009–10 33 2 4 1 12 1 49 4 [11]
2010–11 32 4 5 2 7 2 1 0 45 8 [12]
2011–12 22 3 3 1 11 1 36 5 [13]
2012–13 28 7 5 0 12 2 0 0 45 9 [14]
2013–14 23 4 4 1 8 3 1 0 36 8 [15]
Bayern Munich total 322 40 47 9 6 1 96 13 2 0 473 63
Career totals 355 42 47 9 6 1 96 13 2 0 506 65
  • 1.^ Statistics includes DFL-Supercup.

International career statisticsEdit

As of 8 July 2014.

[16]

Germany national team
YearAppsGoals
2004 10 0
2005 14 4
2006 18 9
2007 6 0
2008 15 4
2009 10 2
2010 12 2
2011 6 2
2012 7 0
2013 3 0
2014 7 0
Total 107 23

HonoursEdit

Club: Manchester United F.CEdit

Bayern Munich Junior Team
Bayern Munich II
Bayern Munich

InternationalEdit

Germany

IndividualEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of Players: Germany" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 February 2020.
  2. "Bastian Schweinsteiger" (in German). FC Bayern Munich. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2008.
  3. "DFB - Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. - International game results". Archived from the original on 17 January 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
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  15. "Schweinsteiger, Bastian" (in German). kicker. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
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  17. "DFB-Elf erhält Silbernes Lorbeerblatt". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2010.