PHILLIP LAHM

Philipp Lahm ws born 11 November 1983) is a German footballer who plays for and captains both Bayern Munich and the Germany national football team.one of the best full backs in the world,^[2] and was included in the World Cup team of the tournament in 2006 and 2010, the UEFA Team of the Tournament in 2008 and 2012 and in the FIFA Team of the Year 2008...
well known for his pace, dribbling and precise tackling abilities as well as his small stature, giving him the nickname the "Magic Dwarf"'..
He ws developed into a professional football player within the Bayern Munich Junior Team.. at the age of 11 after a youth coach, Jan Pienta, had scouted him several times while he was playing for the local youth team in his hometown Gern, Munich. He was already considered very talented; one of his coaches, Hermann Hummels..
He made his Bundesliga debut on the first day of the season 2003–04 against Hansa Rostock as he came in as a substitute left-back in the 76th minute for midfielder Silvio Meissner. His first professional start as a left back he played on the fourth matchday as a 63rd minute substitute for Gerber and his first game over the full 90 minutes followed on the sixth matchday against Borussia Dortmund..After the Euro 2004 tournament and the resulting shorter vacation and pre-season training he had difficulties getting off the ground and also in conforming with the tactics and system of the new coach Matthias Sammer. However, he still made 16 Bundesliga appearances for Stuttgart before the Christmas break, 14 of them over the full 90 minutes, and six appearances in the UEFA Cup.
Lahm returned to Bayern Munich in july 2005. However, the torn cruciate ligament he had suffered just before his return forced him to start his professional time in FC Bayern on rehabilitation. He returned to the field at the end of November playing first twice for the amateur side of Bayern and thereafter making his first professional Bundesliga appearance for Bayern in November 2005 against Arminia Bielefeld.Lahm started his international career in the U19 national team. He was part of the team that won silver for Germany in the 2002 U19 European championship playing in all games in the final tournament and scoring a crucial goal in the 90th minute (2–3) against England in a game that ended 3–3.
Lahm missed more than a year of international football between January 2005 and March 2006 due to injuries (stress-fracture on foot and a torn cruciate ligament)
Even though he injured his elbow in a friendly game right before the World Cup 2006 and thus had to wear a special cast on his left arm..
He was also the only German player to play the complete 690 minutes of the World Cup and was also elected to the All Star Team of the tournament..

UEFA CHAMPION LEAGUE 2012

BAYERN MUNICH squad 4 2012 champion league

Goalkeepers

No.	Name	P	G
1	Manuel Neuer	2	0
22	Tom Starke	0	0
24	Maximilian Riedmüller	-	-
29	Leopold Zingerle	-	-
32	Lukas Raeder	-	-

Defenders

No.	Name	P	G
4	Dante	2	0
5	Daniel Van Buyten	0	0
13	Rafinha	0	0
17	Jérôme Boateng	2	0
21	Philipp Lahm	2	0
26	Diego Contento	-	-
28	Holger Badstuber	2	0
38	Daniel Wein	-	-

Midfielders

No.	Name	P	G
7	Franck Ribéry	2	1
8	Javi Martínez	2	0
10	Arjen Robben	1	0
11	Xherdan Shaqiri	1	0
23	Mitchell Weiser	-	-
25	Thomas Müller	2	0
27	David Alaba	-	-
30	Luiz Gustavo	2	0
31	Bastian Schweinsteiger	2	1
34	Pierre Højbjerg	-	-
36	Emre Can	0	0
39	Toni Kroos	2	1
44	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	0	0

Forwards

No.	Name	P	G
9	Mario Mandžukić	2	0
14	Claudio Pizarro	2	0
20	Patrick Weihrauch	-	-
33	Mario Gomez	-	-
37	Kevin Friesenbichler	-	-

Coach: Jupp Heynckes (GER)

Group F

	P	Pts
BATE	2	6
Valencia	2	3
Bayern	2	3
LOSC	2	0

Last updated: 03/10/2012 01:26 CET

 

Top goalscorers

Player	Goals	P
Bastian Schweinsteiger	1	2
Franck Ribéry	1	2
Toni Kroos	1	2

 

HERE SUM NWS BOUT SCHWEINSTEIGER...

 

FC Bayern München's 3-1 defeat at FC BATE Borisov has arguably been the biggest upset in this season's UEFA Champions League. What was noticeable in that game, and at UEFA EURO 2012, is the importance of Bastian Schweinsteiger to both Bayern and Germany.
The large transfer fee Bayern paid for Javi Martínez this summer came as a surprise to some but it was an important signing. It was necessary to protect a defence that was vulnerable at times last season and, along with the capture of forward Mario Mandžukić, added to the squad depth.
One of Bayern's main problems last term was Schweinsteiger's absences through injury, and his form as he attempted to regain fitness was far from his peak. Luiz Gustavo and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, who deputised for him, are capable and solid players, but they failed to control games the way Schweinsteiger does...
As a result Bayern lacked his drive and passion. They subsequently brought in Martínez, at a seemingly inflated cost, in a bid to create a situation similar to that with Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben. One of the magic duo has often been injured during the past few years, yet Bayern have coped before returning to their thrilling best once the forwards are united again. It was supposed to be the same with Schweinsteiger and Martínez. Both of them together is the optimum, but one of them will do.
However, in Minsk last Tuesday, in a game which most expected Bayern to win, it was proven that this is not the case. Coach Jupp Heynckes decided to give an in-form Schweinsteiger a rest as part of his rotation policy, and Bayern lost 3-1. His introduction on 77 minutes was too little too late...
Many people did not understand why, despite some below-par showings, Germany coach Joachim Löw kept the one-time winger in his side for so long at UEFA EURO 2012. If he was not at his best in Poland and Ukraine, Löw still seemed to think that a struggling Schweinsteiger was better than no Schweinsteiger at all...

MATCHES STAGE...

19 September 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
Bayern		2-1		Valencia
Referee: Fırat Aydınus (TUR) – Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER)
09/20/2012 23:33:39

2 October 2012

2 October 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
BATE		3-1		Bayern
Referee: Aleksandar Stavrev (MKD) – Stadium: Dinamo Stadion, Minsk (BLR)
10/04/2012 00:07:00

23 October 2012

23 October 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
LOSC		20.45		Bayern
Referee: TBD– Stadium: Grand Stade Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq (FRA)
10/10/2012 11:06:21

7 November 2012

7 November 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
Bayern		20.45		LOSC
Referee: TBD– Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER)
10/12/2012 14:14:25

20 November 2012

20 November 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
Valencia		20.45		Bayern
Referee: TBD– Stadium: Estadi de Mestalla, Valencia (ESP)
09/03/2012 14:10:13

5 December 2012

5 December 2012 - UEFA Champions League, Group stage (Group F)
Bayern		20.45		BATE
Referee: TBD– Stadium: Fußball Arena München, Munich (GER)

SChWEINSTEIGER

bastain schweinsteiger


born 1 August 1984 in Kolbermoor, West Germany) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bayern Munich and the German national team. A right-footed player, he is capable of playing out wide or in a more central role.
Schweinsteiger has won many awards in his club and international careers, including five Bundesliga titles, five German Cups, and two League Cups.As of January 2011, he is the Bayern Munich vice-captain to long-time teammate Philipp Lahm...
signed with Bayern Munich as a youth team player on 1 July 1998^[2] and rose through the club's youth sides. A talented youth ski racer, he had to decide between pursuing a professional career in skiing or one in football. Having won the German youth championship in July 2002, Schweinsteiger quickly earned a place in the reserves, producing a string of solid third division displays. He initially earned a reputation for being a rebel off the pitch, making headlines for the wrong reasons...

got excellent dribbling skills and is a specialist at set pieces. Schweinsteiger also has a hard shot and often scores from outside the penalty area. He can play as a defensive midfielder or just behind the strikers. During his first appearances in the titular eleven, he played left-back. After just two training sessions with the first team, coach Ottmar Hitzfeld gave Schweinsteiger his debut as a late substitute in a UEFA Champions League game against RC Lens in November 2002, and the youngster made..

 21 June 2012, Schweinsteiger has been capped 93 times and has scored 23 goals for the Germany national football team since making his debut in 2004. He has also been to five major tournaments with the German squad: UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal, FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, UEFA Euro 2008 in Austria-Switzerland, FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, and UEFA Euro 2012 in Poland-Ukraine..Schweinsteiger began his career as a winger and a utility player. With the arrival of Louis van Gaal to Bayern, he began playing in centre midfield to accommodate wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry. Bastian Schweinsteiger has excellent dribbling skills, ball control, precise passing and good tackling capability, plus he is a set piece taker. Schweinsteiger is also a superb reader of the game and has scored spectacularly due to his good positioning. He has been called "the brain" of the German national team by his coach Joachim Löw.^[11] He also has the ability to shoot at target from distance, as in the third-place match against Portugal during the 2006 World Cup where he scored two goals from long range and almost a third from a set piece. He has since thrived in his new role and uses his passing and tackling to great effect in initiating attacks and dictating play...

Club

Bayern Munich Junior Team

• Under 17 Bundesliga (1): 2001
• Under 19 Bundesliga (1): 2002

Bayern Munich II

• Regionalliga Süd (1): 2004

Bayern Munich

• Bundesliga (5): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10
• DFB-Pokal (5): 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10
• DFB-Ligapokal (2): 2004, 2007
• DFL-Supercup (2): 2010, 2012
• UEFA Champions League Runner-up: 2009–10, 2011–12

International

Germany

• FIFA Confederations Cup Third Place: 2005
• FIFA World Cup Third Place: 2006 & 2010
• UEFA European Football Championship Runner-up: 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stadiums

The Olympic Stadium, home of Bayern Munich from 1972 to 2005

Bayern played its first training games at the Schyrenplatz in the center of Munich. The first official games were held on the Theresienwiese. In 1901 Bayern moved to its first own field, which was located in Schwabing at the Clemensstraße. After joining the Münchner Sport-Club (MSC) in 1906, Bayern moved in May 1907 to MSC's ground at the Leopoldstraße.^[39] As the crowds gathering for Bayern's home games increased at the beginning of the 1920s, Bayern had to switch to various premises in Munich.^[40]
From 1925 Bayern shared the Grünwalder Stadion with 1860 Munich.^[41] Until World War II the stadium was owned by 1860 Munich, and is still colloquially known as Sechz'ger ("Sixties") Stadium nowadays. It was destroyed during the war, and efforts to rebuild it resulted in a patchwork. Bayern's record crowd at the Grünwalder Stadion is reported as more than 50,000 in the home game against 1. FC Nuremberg in the 1961–62 season.^[42] In the Bundesliga era the stadium had a maximum capacity of 44,000 which was reached on several occasions, but the capacity has since been reduced to 21,272. As was the case at most of this period's stadiums, the vast majority of the stadium was given over to terracing. Today the second teams of both clubs play in the stadium.^[43][44]

For Bayern home games the Allianz Arena is lit in red.

BAYERN MUNICH stadium

For the 1972 Summer Olympics the city of Munich built the Olympic Stadium. The stadium, renowned for its architecture,^[45] was inaugurated in the last Bundesliga match of the 1971–72 season. The match drew a capacity crowd of 79,000, a total which was reached again on numerous occasions. The stadium was, in its early days, considered to be one of the foremost stadia in the world and played host to numerous major finals, such as that of 1974 FIFA World Cup.In the following years the stadium underwent several modifications, such as an increase in seating space from approximately 50% to ca. 66%. Eventually the stadium had a capacity of 63,000 for national matches, and 59,000 for international occasions such as European Cup competitions. Many people, however, began to feel that the stadium was too cold in winter, with half the audience exposed to the weather due to lack of cover. A further complaint was the distance between the spectators and the pitch, the stadium betraying its track and field heritage. Modification of the stadium proved impossible as the architect Günther Behnisch vetoed major modifications of the stadium.
After much discussion the city, the state of Bavaria, FC Bayern, and TSV 1860 jointly decided at the end of 2000 to build a new stadium. While Bayern had wanted to build a purpose-built football stadium for several years, the awarding of the 2006 FIFA World Cup to Germany stimulated the discussion as the Olympic Stadium no longer met the FIFA criteria to host a World Cup game. Located on the northern outskirts of Munich the Allianz Arena has been in use since the beginning of the 2005–06 season.^[47] Its initial capacity of 66,000 fully covered seats has since been increased for matches on national level to 69,901 by transforming 3,000 seats to terracing in a 2:1 ratio. Since August 2012 2,000 more seats were added in the last row of the top tier increasing the capacity to 71,000^[49]
The most prominent feature of the stadium is the translucent outer layer, which can be illuminated in different colours for impressive effects. Usually red lighting is used for Bayern home games, blue for 1860 home games and white for German national team home games.

OLYMPIASTADIUM MUNCHEN

ALLIANZ ARENA

FC bayern munich

FC Bayern Munich is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria..is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system, and is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups..
The club was founded in 1900 by eleven football players led by Franz John.^[2] Although Bayern won its first national championship in 1932,^[3] the club was not selected for the Bundesliga at its inception in 1963.^[4] The club had its period of greatest success in the middle of the 1970s when, under the leadership of Franz Beckenbauer, it won the European Cup three times in a row (1974–76). In recent years Bayern Munich has been the most successful club in German football, winning five of the last ten Bundesliga titles. The club's last international title was the Intercontinental Cup in 2001, after they won their fourth European Cup the same year.
Bayern Munich has a rivalry with Borussia Dortmund, TSV 1860 München, and 1. FC Nuremberg. Since the beginning of the 2005–06 season Bayern plays its home games in the Allianz Arena. Previously the team had played in Munich's Olympic Stadium for 33 years. The team colours are red and white, and the team crest shows the colours of Bavaria.^[5] Bayern is a membership-based club with more than 185,000 members..
Bayern considers itself a national club.^[51] The club has more than 147,000 members and 2,437 fanclubs, making it the club with the largest number of organized supporters in Germany.^[52] Owing partly to the club having supporters all over the country,^[53] all of Bayern's away games have been sold out in recent years.^[54] Their following is mainly recruited from the aspiring middle class and regional Bavaria.^{[citation needed]} Despite a large proportion of their supporters having to travel more than 200 km (ca. 120 miles) regularly,^[55] the club's home matches in the Allianz Arena have almost always been sold out.^[54][56] According to a study by Sport+Markt Bayern is the fifth-most popular football club in Europe with 20.7 million supporters, and the most popular football club in Germany with 10 million supporters.^[57]
Bayern Munich is also renowned for its well-organized ultra scene. The most prominent groups are the Schickeria München, the Red Munichs '89, the Südkurve '73, the Munichmaniacs 1996, the Service Crew Munich, the Red Angels, the Tavernen Crew München, and the Red Sharks. Stern des Südens is the song which fans sing at FCB home games. In the 1990s they also used to sing FC Bayern, Forever Number One.^[58]
The club also has quite a number of high profile supporters, among them Pope Benedict XVI, the current Pope,^[59] Boris Becker, retired German tennis player, Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer, and Horst Seehofer and Edmund Stoiber, current and former Minister-President..

 

 

Bayern is historically the most successful team in German football, as they have won the most championships and the most cups. They are also Germany's most successful team in international competitions, having won six trophies.^[103] Bayern is one of only three clubs to have won all three major European competitions and also the last club to have won the European Cup three times in a row, entitling them to wear a multiple-winner badge during Champions League matches...

Domestic

• German Champions
  • Winner (22) (record): 1931–32, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08, 2009–10

• DFB-Pokal
  • Winner (15) (record): 1957, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010

• DFB-Ligapokal
  • Winner (6) (record): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007

• DFL-Supercup
  • Winner (5) (record): 1982, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2012

European

• UEFA Champions League / European Cup
  • Winner (4): 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winner (1): 1967

• UEFA Europa League / UEFA Cup
  • Winner (1): 1996

Worldwide

• Intercontinental Cup
  • Winner (2):1976,2001
   

2012 PLAYER

No. Position Player 1 GK Manuel Neuer 4 DF Dante 5 DF Daniel Van Buyten 7 MF Franck Ribéry 8 MF Javi Martínez 9 FW Mario Mandžukić 10 MF Arjen Robben 11 MF Xherdan Shaqiri 13 DF Rafinha 14 FW Claudio Pizarro 17 DF Jérôme Boateng 20 FW Patrick Weihrauch 21 DF Philipp Lahm (captain) 22 GK Tom Starke

No. Position Player 23 MF Mitchell Weiser 24 GK Maximilian Riedmüller 25 FW Thomas Müller 26 DF Diego Contento 27 DF David Alaba 28 DF Holger Badstuber 30 MF Luiz Gustavo 31 MF Bastian Schweinsteiger (vice captain) 32 GK Lukas Raeder 33 FW Mario Gómez 36 MF Emre Can 39 MF Toni Kroos 44 MF Anatoliy Tymoshchuk

The recent season-by-season performance of the club..

Season	Rank	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Cup	EL	CL
2000–01	1	34	19	6	9	62	37	25	63	6 !2R	9 !—	1 !Won
2001–02	3	34	20	8	6	62	25	40	68	3 !SF	9 !—	4 !QF
2002–03	1	34	23	6	5	70	25	45	75	1 !Won	9 !—	6 !1R
2003–04	2	34	20	8	6	70	39	31	68	4 !QF	9 !—	5 !1/8
2004–05	1	34	24	5	5	75	33	42	77	1 !Won	9 !—	4 !QF
2005–06	1	34	22	9	3	67	32	35	75	1 !Won	9 !—	5 !1/8
2006–07	4	34	18	6	10	55	40	15	60	5 !3R	9 !—	4 !QF
2007–08	1	34	22	10	2	68	21	47	76	1 !Won	3 !SF	9 !—
2008–09	2	34	20	7	7	71	42	29	67	4 !QF	9 !—	4 !QF
2009–10	1	34	20	10	4	72	31	41	70	1 !Won	9 !—	2 !Runner-up
2010–11	3	34	19	8	7	81	40	41	65	3 !SF	9 !—	6 !1/8
2011–12	2	34	23	4	7	77	22	55	73	2 !Runner-up	9 !—	2 !Runner-up