Capital: | € 45 million |
Age: | 34 |
Born: | 03/27/1986 |
Country of origin: | Germany |
Source of wealth: | Soccer player |
Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Manuel Neuer, born in Gelsenkirchen, is a goalkeeper in football. By acting as a kind of libero at the same time, he revolutionized the goalkeeper’s game, especially during the 2014 World Cup. In this tournament, Manuel Neuer also won a world title with the German national team. At the club Football he switched from his youth club FC Schalke 04 2011 to FC Bayern Munich, where he has become a goal No. 1 Since then, and the goal of the national team since 2010.
Early life
Manuel Neuer, who grew up at the Buer District of Gelsenkirchen, was born from a police officer who was a Schalke fan itself. No wonder that Manuel Neuer also started a very early sports career. Already at the age of four times he was registered with FC Schalke 04, where he developed into an extraordinary goalkeeper until 2005. He also played tennis on the side, until the age of 14 at the club level. In 2000 Neuer moved from junior high school in Gelsenkirchen-Buer to Berger Feld Soccer Boarding School, which he left in 2006 with technical college entrance qualifications. Since then he concentrated fully on football, after joining the second team FC Schalke 04 for the 2004 season before joining club professional forces in 2006.
Career
Manuel Neuer quickly became a regular goalkeeper at the club where he was a fan on the curve. Already on the second day of his first season with professionals, he had to replace the injured goalkeeper Frank Rost, which was resolved some short time later by coach Mirko Slomka. At the age of 20, Manuel Neuer was number 1 in the Bundesliga Club goal. Schalke should not regret this decision for a while. Even if Manuel Neuer cannot bring great consistency into its performance at the beginning of his career, which then made it the best goalkeeper in the world, he was impressed with his quality in the early years. He also proved to be very safe with his legs, who took a lot of profit in his goalkeeper’s game.
The second leg in 2008 at FC Porto in the round of 16 of the Champions League was very extraordinary. Here he secured Schalke with a number of extraordinary savings to achieve a penalty shooter, which in turn helped him decide to color with two futures penalties.
But the excitement of the talented people ended in 2011 when Manuel Neuer turned to the Bayern Munich League FC competitor. Here he made another leap in performance and showed better performance at the 2014 World Cup in the national team goalkeeper than the case at the 2010 World Cup. The glory of the crown won the world title with the German national team this year. Some of the German championships (currently 7) and victory at the DFB Cup (currently 5) are added, such as the 2013 Champions League victory. At the 2014 World Cup, he was also awarded the Golden Gloves as the best goalkeeper of the tournament. How he received a number of individual awards, including the FRITZ WALTER medal in 2005, several elections for the IFFHS goalkeeper or elections for world athletes this year from various professional associations.
At the 2018 World Cup, unusual determination in its public perception was followed, at least because of the injury break that had previously suffered. Many observers accused Jogi Löw national coach from putting goalkeeper without exercise in the 2018 World Cup, which is one of the reasons for early retirement. In fact, with the exception of the last goal against 0-2 against South Korea, Manuel Neuer was innocent from all the purposes conceded. His less sovereign role as the team captain in dealing with the crisis around Mesut Özil also brought further criticism. However, this has faded again and in 2019, Manuel Neuer is still undeniable No. 1 In the goals of the National Team and FC Bayern Munich.
Career highlights
Absolute spotlight won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He was only the fourth (regular) goalkeeper from Germany to achieve this success. Added to this is the 2013 Champions League victory in the German Final Domestik Wembley, which they won 2-1 against the old rival Borussia Dortmund. Many national titles are added in the case of Manuel Neuer.
Amazing facts
Manuel Neuer’s brother was active as a referee in Oberliga. Neuer himself is the sound of character in the film “The Monster Union”. He is also active as a testimony for lemonade for a while. The famous proverb comes from this period. “Maybe I’m not XY at all, I’m Manuel Neuer.”