Tim Wiese
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Wiese with Germany in 2011.
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| Date of birth | 17 December 1981 | |||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||
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Current team
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SSV Dillingen | |||||||||||||||||
| Number | 99 | |||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1989 | DJK Dürscheid | |||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1999 | Bayer Leverkusen | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Fortuna Köln | 23 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern II | 15 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 65 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2005–2012 | Werder Bremen | 194 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 10 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2017– | SSV Dillingen | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Germany U21 | 13 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Germany | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Tim Wiese (German pronunciation: [tʰɪm ˈviːzə]; born 17 December 1981) is a German professional wrestler and football goalkeeper.
Having progressed through the youth teams at DJK Dürscheid and Bayer Leverkusen, Wiese started his professional career at Fortuna Köln, and went on to play for 1. FC Kaiserslautern and Werder Bremen before signing for 1899 Hoffenheim in 2012.
Wiese made 13 appearances for the German under-21 squad between 2003 and 2005, before making his full international debut three years later against England. He went on to win five further caps and was part of the German 2010 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not make an appearance in that tournament.
Following Wiese's retirement from football in 2014, he gained a significant amount of muscle mass and was subsequently linked to a career in professional wrestling, eventually joining WWE in 2016.
In 2017, Wiese came out of his retirement from football to play for SSV Dillingen in the Kreisliga Schwaben-Nord, the eighth tier of German football.
He started his playing career at DJK Dürscheid, in 1987. Two years later, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen's youth system, before moving to Fortuna Köln, where he made his first-team debut in the Regionalliga in 2000.
He moved to Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern in the winter break of the 2001–02 season and initially played for their reserve squad in the third division and served as backup for Georg Koch and Roman Weidenfeller in the first team. Following Weidenfeller's transfer to Borussia Dortmund, he fought with Koch for the place of the first goalkeeper and made his Bundesliga debut at the beginning of the 2002–03 season, being replaced by Koch after conceding four goals in two matches. After the winter break, however, he managed to secure himself the position of the first-choice goalkeeper and established himself as one of the most talented new keepers in the Bundesliga. He was considered first-choice throughout the 2003–04 season, despite being sent off during the second match of the season (the first of two red cards he has received during his league career). He remained the first goalkeeper for Kaiserslautern until late November 2004, when he lost his place to veteran Thomas Ernst.
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