Bastian Schweinsteiger

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
Schweinsteiger with Chicago Fire in 2017
Personal information
Full name Bastian Schweinsteiger[1]
Date of birth (1984-08-01) 1 August 1984[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)
Honours
Representing  Germany
Men's football
FIFA World Cup
Third place2006
Third place2010
Winner2014
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up2008
Bronze medal – third place2012
Bronze medal – third place2016
FIFA Confederations Cup
Third place2005
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Club

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.

International

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 goals

[3]

Club career statistics
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-LigapokalEurope 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 statistics
As of 8 July 2014.

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Germany national team
YearAppsGoals
2004100
2005144
2006189
200760
2008154
2009102
2010122
201162
201270
201330
201470
Total10723

Honours

Club: Manchester United F.C
Bayern Munich Junior Team
  • Under 17 Bundesliga (1): 2001
  • Under 19 Bundesliga (1): 2002
Bayern Munich II
  • Regionalliga Süd (1): 2004
Bayern Munich

International
Germany

Individual

References
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  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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  17. "DFB-Elf erhält Silbernes Lorbeerblatt". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2010.
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