German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer

Manuel Neuer - German footballer who plays for the Munich "Bavaria". He was thirty years old, that a fielder would be quite a lot. However, Manuel Neuer, speaking at the goalkeeper position, so this age is the heyday for him.

Early career

Manuel Neuer was born March 27, 1986 in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. There he began playing football, at the age of five years, joining the local club, "Schalke" Academy, which is also one of the country's leading clubs. For many years, Manuel worked in the club's academy, standing at the gate Youth teams of different age categories. When he came of age, a professional contract was with him, but in the basis he was not right. The young goalkeeper is always more difficult to break into the starting line-up than a fielder, as the latter can play another position or to express themselves, going out for a match to replace if necessary. Goalkeepers have to complicated, but Manuel Neuer was so talented that he did not spend long on the bench.

The game of "Schalke"

Manuel Neuer, whose biography as a professional footballer began quite early, already in the 03/04 season, when he was 17 years old, began to advocate for the double club. As he left his first season on the field only once, but the second was able to defend the 24 games. It was then that he showed something that was capable of, so in 2005, was included in the main application of the club, but have never once appeared on the field, while remaining reserve goalkeeper. the debut of two decades of the goalkeeper, who immediately conquered all his abilities in 2006. As a result, he was left at the gates of the team that got a permanent place at the base in such an early age. This season he has played 27 matches, and in the second - as many as fifty. As a result, in the five years he spent in the main team, Neuer has played 203 matches, becoming the symbol of a real club. However, Manuel Neuer - the goalkeeper of the first magnitude, and even then, in 2011, it was clear that "Schalke" - is not his highest level. So when on the "Bavaria", the strongest club in Germany, have an urgent need to upscale goalkeeper Oliver Kahn after leaving, he received a proposal - Neuer could not refuse. This led to the incredible frustration on the part of the fans, who cursed the person who admired yesterday. Noyer effigies were burnt and were suspended under bridges, in his direction flying insults and threats, but Manuel stood and joined the club of his dreams.

Go to the "Bavaria"

Of course, 25-year-old goalkeeper is not acquired in order to test and verify, but in order to immediately give up the fight, making a bet on it. The first matches of Manuel Neuer spent not too confident, because he was under a lot of pressure, and above it hung a permanent shadow of Oliver Kahn, because of which burned Michael Rensing and Thomas Kraft, who tried to take the place had gone to rest, "titanium". However, Manuel was more charming, talented and self-confident - and he was able to gain a foothold in the basis of the "Bavaria" and begin to add even more in the classroom. To date, he has spent the Munich club for five full seasons, coming on the field 255 times. Four times he was with the "Bavaria" won the German Cup three times - the German Cup, and once even won the Champions League. This season, Manuel Neuer has played 24 games, half of which defended "at zero" - just this time he missed 13 goals. His contract with the club was extended last spring and lasts until 2021 - "Bavaria" is not going to just let go of the best goalkeepers in the world.

for the national team appearances

In the German national team Neuer debuted relatively late - when he was 23 years old. It was released for the friendly match against the United Arab Emirates, which was held in June 2009. By coincidence, Manuel not only went to the 2010 World Cup, and there was the main goalkeeper and one of the heroes of the tournament. He helped the team reach the semifinals, missing six games with three goals. Since Neuer almost always been the main goalkeeper. In total, he spent 74 matches, 26 of which were "dry" - in the other, he missed 56 goals. Manuel was the main goalkeeper at all subsequent major tournaments, including the 2014 World Championships, where the German team became the champion. When Philipp Lahm retired in 2014, Neuer became the vice-captain, and when followed for Lam and Schweinsteiger (ie summer 2016), Manuel wore the captain's armband permanently.

Rating

It's no secret that Manuel Neuer had a lot of talent all the time, but it was in 2013 that the goalkeeper does not know the competition on a global level. Since 2013, has for four years, he is universally recognized as the best goalkeeper of the world - and no goalkeeper can not argue with that title. So Manuel Neuer, of course, is ranked first in the ranking of goalkeepers.

Life

Manuel Neuer for thirty years, but he still does not have a life partner. In 2009, when he still played for "Schalke", Manuel started dating Catherine Gilh, but in 2014, the couple broke up - it was not known about it officially, but everyone was surprised that Katherine will never miss a single match, Manuel, I did not go to the world Cup. Some even suggested that the couple will get married soon - but things turned out quite differently. As a result, it became known that in the spring he met his new companion Nina. Manuel Neuer and his girlfriend will be an informal relationship in so far.