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Mehmet Scholl

Mehmet Scholl
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Scholl in 2016
Personal information
Date of birth (1970-10-16) 16 October 1970 (age 46)
Place of birth Karlsruhe, West Germany
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Playing position Attacking midfielder
Youth career
1976–1982 SV Nordwest Karlsruhe
1982–1989 Karlsruher SC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1991 Karlsruher SC (A) 28 (7)
1989–1992 Karlsruher SC 58 (11)
1992–2007 Bayern Munich 334 (87)
Total 420 (105)
National team
1991–1992 Germany U21 5 (3)
1992 Germany Olympic 1 (0)
1995–2002 Germany 36 (8)
Teams managed
2008–2009 Bayern Munich U13
2009–2010 Bayern Munich II
2012–2013 Bayern Munich II
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Mehmet Scholl (born Mehmet Yüksel; 16 October 1970) is a German football manager and former player.

He played most of his career as an attacking midfielder for Bayern Munich. During his career he won the UEFA Cup in 1996 (scoring a goal in each leg of the final), the Euro 1996, and the UEFA Champions League in 2001, as well as eight German Championships (all with Bayern Munich). His success with Bayern makes him the record holder for Bundesliga titles, tied with his former teammates Oliver Kahn and Bastian Schweinsteiger. He retired at the end of the 2006–07 Bundesliga season as one of the most successful German football players of all time.

Scholl was the subject of the 2007 career retrospective documentary film Frei:Gespielt – Mehmet Scholl: Über das Spiel hinaus by directors Ferdinand Neumayr and Eduard Augustin.

Scholl played for SV Nordwest Karlsruhe (from 1976 to 1982) and Karlsruher SC (from 1982 to 1992) before joining Bayern Munich in July 1992. He stayed at Bayern for the rest of his career, wearing the number 7 shirt. Scholl retired from professional football after the 2006–07 season. In 15 seasons at Bayern he has played in 468 competitive matches for Bayern, scoring 116 goals - 88 of these appearances were in European cup competitions (18 goals).

He was one of the Bundesliga's most successful players, winning the championship eight times. Aged 19, he made his Bundesliga debut on 21 April 1990, coming on for Karlsruher SC in the 78th minute of their away match against 1. FC Köln, and promptly scored his team's fifth goal in the 90th minute. He has scored 98 goals (11 for Karlsruhe, 87 for Bayern) in 392 Bundesliga matches (58 for Karlsruhe, 334 for Bayern). Scholl has been praised for his technical ability, his creative playmaking, his dribbling skills, and his free kicks. In early 2001, he was voted Player of the Year 2000 by the professional players of the First and Second Bundesliga, and in May 2005, fans voted him one of the eleven greatest Bayern players of all time.


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