Philipp Lahm ( german pronunciation : [ ˈfɪlɪp ˈlaːm ] ; born 11 November 1983 ) is a german former master football player who played as a full-back. Considered by many to be one of the greatest defenders of all time, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Lahm was the captain of Bayern Munich, having led them to numerous honours including the 2013 UEFA Champions League as depart of the Treble. He is besides a former master of his national team, which he led to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup, before retiring from international football. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Lahm was included in the World Cup team of the tournament in 2006, 2010, and 2014, and the UEFA Team of the Tournament in 2008 and 2012 and in the UEFA Team of the year 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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Although Lahm is right-footed, he was able to play on both sides of the lurch, due to his tactical intelligence and versatility. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He often cut from the flank to the inwardly of the flip to either tear and/or legislate. In detail, he was renowned for his footstep, technique, stamen, and precise tackling abilities, adenine well as his minor stature, which earned him the nickname the “ Magic Dwarf ”. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Owing to his placement and tackling ability despite his minor stature, his ability to read the game, his leadership qualities and besides due to his skills, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest full-backs of all time. [ 12 ]
Club career [edit ]
early career [edit ]
Lahm developed into a professional football musician within the Bayern Munich Junior Team. [ 2 ] He joined the team at the age of 11 after a youth bus, Jan Pienta, had scouted him several times while he was playing for the local youth team in his hometown Gern, Munich. [ 13 ] He was already considered identical talented ; one of his coaches, Hermann Hummels, even stated that “ If Philipp Lahm will not make it in the Bundesliga, cipher will anymore. ” [ 14 ] He twice won the Bundesliga young person title, the second time as captain of his team, [ 13 ] and then was introduced into the B team at the old age of 17. His former amateur coach Hermann Gerland considers Lahm to be the most talented player he has ever coached [ 15 ] and made him the captain of the B team during his second season. Up to this point Lahm played as a defensive midfielder, right midfielder or right full-back. [ 16 ] On 13 November 2002, Lahm made his debut for the Bayern Munich first team as a 92nd-minute utility in a 3–3 draw with RC Lens in the group stage of the Champions League. [ 17 ] however, since Willy Sagnol and Bixente Lizarazu were established as Bayern ‘s first choice full-backs, and the club ‘s midfield was besides well-staffed, Lahm made no further appearances during the 2002–03 season and was loaned to VfB Stuttgart for the 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons to gain first team have in the Bundesliga. [ 18 ]
VfB Stuttgart ( loanword ) [edit ]
Lahm was in the first place signed as a back-up for Andreas Hinkel, who played as right back, but coach Felix Magath moved him to the left back position, on which he toppled the german external Heiko Gerber. [ 19 ] He made his Bundesliga debut on the first day of the temper 2003–04 against Hansa Rostock as he came in as a substitute left back in the 76th minute for midfielder Silvio Meissner. He made his first professional start as a leave back on the fourth matchday as a 63rd-minute substitute for Gerber and his beginning plot over the entire 90 minutes followed on the sixth matchday against Borussia Dortmund. thereafter he established himself as a regular leave back for Stuttgart. [ 20 ] On 29 September 2003, Lahm made his foremost Champions League appearance as a starter against Manchester United. On 3 April 2004, he scored his first ever Bundesliga goal in a 5–1 away win for Stuttgart against VfL Wolfsburg. During the 2003–04 season Lahm appeared for Stuttgart in 31 Bundesliga and seven Champions League matches overall and came second in the election for the Germany Footballer of the year. During his second gear temper in Stuttgart, Lahm had substantially more unmanageable time. [ 19 ] After the Euro 2004 tournament and the result shorter vacation and pre-season trail he had difficulties getting off the ground and besides in conforming with the tactics and system of the new bus Matthias Sammer. however, he calm made 16 Bundesliga appearances for Stuttgart before the Christmas separate, 14 of them over the broad 90 minutes, and six appearances in the UEFA Cup. [ 21 ] In January 2005, Lahm suffered a stress-fracture on his right foundation and was therefore sidelined for four months, making his comeback on 9 April 2005, against FC Schalke 04. alone around five weeks later, he was injured again, this time suffering a lacerate cruciate ligament which ended his season and simultaneously his career in Stuttgart. [ 13 ]
Bayern Munich [edit ]
In July 2005, Lahm returned to Bayern Munich. [ 2 ] however, the pluck 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 B team and thereafter making his first base professional Bundesliga appearance for Bayern in November 2005 against Arminia Bielefeld. [ 22 ] During the 2005–06 season he appeared for Bayern 20 times in the Bundesliga and thrice in the Champions League, contending over field-time evenly with Bixente Lizarazu .
Lahm in 2006 During the season 2006–07, Lahm played in all of Bayern ‘s 34 Bundesliga games and in nine of the ten-spot Champions League games and was entirely substitute doubly, chiefly because Lahm was the lone left back in the team but besides due to his sufficiently solid performances during a season that was one of the worst for Bayern in many years. On 20 August 2006, in Bayern ‘s first away match of the season, a 2–1 succeed over VfL Bochum, he scored his first goal for the club. For the 2007–08 season, Bayern bought the german external left back Marcell Jansen and Lahm was supposed to revert to correct, both to accommodate Jansen and to replace french properly back Willy Sagnol. Due to injuries ( both his and Jansen ‘s ) he hush chiefly ended up play entrust for Bayern and remained left for the conclusion of the season, although he uttered his wish to play on right several times during the year 2008. During the solid season there were respective rumors suggesting that Lahm would leave Bayern in the summer of 2008 to join FC Barcelona and the remove seemed to be about a done deal. [ 23 ] however, on 16 May 2008 FC Bayern signed a fresh contract with Lahm. His newly condense kept him in Munich through 20 June 2012. [ 24 ] Lahm had his most fecund goalscoring season in 2008–09, scoring three times in the Bundesliga and once in the DFB-Pokal. however, the season was a poor one for Bayern, leading to the net of head coach Jürgen Klinsmann after less than a year in charge. On 8 November 2009, Lahm was given the highest fine in the history of Bayern Munich to date ( estimated to be over €25,000 ) after giving an unauthorized interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He criticised the transfer policy of the club and the miss of crippled philosophy and strategic planning. [ 25 ] Back in May 2008 Lahm had turned down lucrative offers from Manchester United and F.C. Barcelona to stay with Bayern as club president Uli Hoeneß promised to build a team that could challenge in Europe. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] This incident drew assorted reactions from fans and the media, both local and extraneous, with some saying that Lahm should have kept his opinions to himself and others praising him for his honesty. [ 29 ] Although he was fined and heavily criticised by the club hierarchy, he kept his place in the Bayern starting line-up and went on to have a dependable season. During the 2009–10 season under the newfangled bus Louis van Gaal, Lahm was able to play in his choose situation as a proper back. After some difficulties in early games he played one of his best seasons ever, forming an excellent partnership on the properly wing with Arjen Robben, scoring one goal and giving 12 assists in all of his games. [ 30 ] Lahm was besides chosen as vice-captain by Van Gaal, and played full-time in all of Bayern ‘s competitive matches apart from the first-round crippled in the DFB-Pokal. Bayern went on to win the league and cup double and reached the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final, where Lahm played 90 minutes at right-back as they lost to Inter Milan 2–0. After the deviation of captain Mark van Bommel in January 2011, Lahm was made the newfangled captain for the remainder of the 2010–11 season and finally named club captain. [ 31 ] On 19 May 2012, Lahm captained Bayern in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final against Chelsea at the Allianz Arena. He scored the team ‘s beginning penalty in the gunfight but Bayern finished as runner-up for the second clock in three seasons. [ 32 ] In the 2012–13 season, Lahm captained Bayern to an historic triple of the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and Champions League. In the final of the Champions League on 25 May 2013, Lahm helped his side to a 2–1 victory over mate Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund at historic Wembley Stadium in London. [ 33 ] After the game, he revealed how felicitous he was at winning the claim, saying “ It ‘s incredible – a huge gladden and huge relief. The press was enormous after losing in the Champions League final doubly. ” [ 34 ] From the startle of the 2013–14 season, under new director Pep Guardiola, Lahm has been utilised as a defensive midfielder. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Guardiola said of Lahm : “ [ He ] is possibly the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career. He is at another level. ” [ 36 ] That season brought a newfangled milestone for Lahm and the golf club, as he captained Bayern to a record 24th Bundesliga claim and the earliest league championship in Bundesliga history, retaining the title with seven games to spare, which beat the cross off set by the club in the former season. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] In June 2014, Lahm signed a fresh shrink keeping him at Bayern until 2018. [ 40 ] On 18 October, he scored the first pair of his career in a 6–0 kill of SV Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga. [ 41 ] On 26 April 2015, Bayern were confirmed as Bundesliga champions for the third base straight season, giving Lahm the seventh league backing of his career. [ 42 ] On 28 April 2015, Lahm was one of four Bayern players to miss in a 2–0 punishment gunfight get the better of to Borussia Dortmund in the DFB-Pokal semi-final. [ 43 ] Leading up to the 2015–16 season, Bayern head bus Pep Guardiola stated that Lahm could return to his function at fullback with the arrivals Arturo Vidal and Joshua Kimmich. [ 44 ]
Lahm holding the Meisterschale during the Championship claim celebration in May 2016 On 24 February 2016, Lahm made his hundredth UEFA Champions League appearance in a 2–2 draw with Juventus in Turin. [ 45 ] He equaled Kahn ‘s record “ in Germany ” of 103 matches on 13 April 2016. [ 46 ] The 2015–16 season ended with Lahm captaining Bayern to a fourthly back-to-back Bundesliga deed ; the beginning time a team had won four back-to-back championships in the rival ‘s history. [ 47 ] On 4 February 2017, Lahm made his five-hundredth appearance for FC Bayern in a 1–1 Bundesliga draw with Schalke 04. [ 48 ] Three days late, Lahm confirmed that he would be retiring at the goal of the 2016–17 season. [ 49 ] He had rejected an offer from the club to become a sporting director. [ 50 ] On 20 May 2017, Lahm, along with teammate Xabi Alonso, made their final career appearance before retiring, Lahm captaining Bayern as they ended the season as champions for the fifth back-to-back class. [ 51 ] He was substituted in the 87th minute and received a standing ovation from the Allianz Arena crowd in a 4–1 gain over SC Freiburg. [ 52 ] It was confirmed on 19 July that Manuel Neuer will succeed Lahm as club captain. [ 53 ] Lahm entered Bayern Munich ‘s Hall of Fame on 27 May 2017 ; he won eight Bundesliga titles and the Champions League while playing for the club. [ 54 ]
International career [edit ]
Youth teams and Euro 2004 [edit ]
Lahm warming up for Germany in 2006 Lahm started his external career in the U19 national team. He was part of the team that won flatware for Germany in the 2002 UEFA european Under-19 Championship act in all games in the final tournament and scoring a all-important goal in the 90th minute ( 2–3 ) against England in a plot that ended 3–3. [ 55 ] Afterwards he played a few U20 and U21 matches for Germany before impressing Rudi Völler adequate to hand the child his debut on 18 February 2004, [ 56 ] at 20 years of age. His first game was a 2–1 win over Croatia, where he played the wide 90 minutes and was chosen as the man of the match by German football magazine Kicker. [ 57 ] He was besides separate of Germany ‘s team in UEFA Euro 2004 in Portugal and played broad 90 minutes in all three games. Although Germany did not make it past the group stage, Lahm ‘s performance was considered very bright and many german papers saw this as the sole positivist aspect in Germany ‘s miss of accomplishment in the tournament .
2006 FIFA World Cup [edit ]
Lahm missed more than a class of external football between January 2005 and March 2006 [ 58 ] due to injuries ( stress-fracture on foot and a lacerate cruciate ligament ), including the 2005 Confederations Cup, but after his recovery he immediately made it back to the starting line-up. even though he injured his elbow in a friendly bet on right before the 2006 FIFA World Cup and therefore had to wear a special vomit on his left arm, [ 59 ] Jürgen Klinsmann however chose him as first choice for the left back position. He scored the first finish in the opening game of the World Cup in Germany against Costa Rica in the sixth minute, cutting inside the area and launching a right foot fritter into the top-right corner of the net. He was awarded man of the Match for his operation in the moment group game against Poland. He was besides the only German player to play the complete 690 minutes of the World Cup and was besides elected to the All Star Team of the tournament.
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euro 2008 [edit ]
During UEFA Euro 2008 he was in Germany ‘s starting line-up in all games and was only substituted in the final after getting a cut needing stitches on his foot. Lahm started the tournament as a right binding but replaced the under-performing Jansen as left back halfway through the irregular bet on. On 25 June 2008, he scored the winning goal of the Euro 2008 semi-final against Turkey in the 90th hour. He described this as the most important goal of his career and although he was elected Man of the Match, he himself did not consider this as well-deserved. [ 60 ] On 29 June 2008 – in the Euro 2008 final examination against Spain – on 33 minutes Xavi played a cutting musket ball through the german defense and a miss of communication between Lahm and German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann allowed Fernando Torres to net the critical finish in the game ; Spain prevailed 1–0 to win its second european Championship title in 44 years .
2010 FIFA World Cup [edit ]
Lahm play for Germany in 2011 Lahm was ever portray during Germany ‘s 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign and was the lone player to play every unmarried minute. Following the withdrawal of unconstipated captain Michael Ballack from the 2010 FIFA World Cup squad due to injury, Lahm was chosen to captain the team at the approaching tournament. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] On 13 June 2010, he captained the national team in the opening game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup against Australia, becoming the youngest player to captain a german side in a World Cup tournament. The team advanced all the way to the semi-finals, where they were defeated by Spain 1–0. Lahm did not play in the third-place ( bronze ) match against Uruguay due to an infection, so in his absence Bastian Schweinsteiger captained the team which won 3–2. [ 63 ] Lahm ‘s captainship would subsequently become permanent, when coach Joachim Löw announced that Ballack would not be considered to play for Germany anymore. [ 64 ] [ 65 ]
euro 2012 [edit ]
Philipp Lahm playing against Nani at Euro 2012 Captain Lahm ‘s solid defend helped Germany win all ten qualification matches for UEFA Euro 2012, and he besides provided one assist each for Mesut Özil and Mario Gómez. He was an ever-present in the german defense mechanism that attracted praise from a kind of sources. Germany won all three group games against Portugal, Netherlands, and Denmark. Lahm scored the opening goal in their 4–2 victory over Greece in the quarter-finals. Germany was eliminated 2–1 by Italy in the semi-finals .
2014 World Cup and retirement [edit ]
Philipp Lahm lifting the 2014 FIFA World Cup trophy in Brazil On 6 September 2013, Lahm was awarded his hundredth cap for the german national team in a 3–0 winnings over Austria during qualification for the 2014 World Cup. [ 66 ] On 16 June 2014, Lahm started for Germany in cardinal midfield in their first couple of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, a 4–0 defeat of Portugal in Salvador, [ 67 ] and remained in the position for the other two group games and the round of 16 match against Algeria. Lahm reverted to right back for the quarter-final against France, and remained there in Germany ‘s 7–1 defeat of Brazil in the semi-final. On 11 July 2014, Lahm was named on the 10-man short list for FIFA ‘s Golden Ball award for the tournament ‘s best musician. [ 68 ] On 13 July 2014, Lahm led Germany to a World Cup victory, a 1–0 win against Argentina in the final, the fourth time Germany have won the competition and the first for a reunify Germany. [ 69 ] Fritz Walter, Franz Beckenbauer, and Lothar Matthäus had skippered West Germany to the World Cup title. [ 70 ] On 18 July 2014, Lahm, at the age of 30, [ 70 ] announced his retirement from international football. [ 56 ] [ 70 ] He had scored five goals [ 56 ] in 113 appearances. [ 6 ] [ 56 ] [ 70 ] On 2 September 2014, Bastian Schweinsteiger succeeded Lahm as captain of the german national team .
Germany Euro 2024 bid [edit ]
On 8 December 2017, Lahm was named honorary ambassador for Germany ‘s bid to host the UEFA Euro 2024. [ 71 ]
personal life [edit ]
Lahm is known as a private person who maintains a low-profile away of football ; his best friend Andreas Ottl was the only football player give at his marry to Claudia Schattenberg. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] The couple have a son, Julian, [ 74 ] and a daughter, Lenia. [ 75 ] A Munich native, Lahm is a lifelong Bayern fan and served as a ball son at the Olympic Stadium. [ 76 ] Lahm is involved in many charity campaigns and events. In June 2007, FIFA announced that Lahm and Owen Hargreaves would visit South Africa in advance to support the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [ 77 ] Although Hargreaves never managed to take part in the trip due to injury, Lahm and German national teammate Piotr Trochowski visited the state taking prison term not lone to visit the 2010 FIFA World Cup organizers but besides to visit a local SOS Children ‘s greenwich village and to take part in the Kick-AIDS event. [ 78 ] Lahm has established a foundation, Philipp Lahm-Stiftung, to support underprivileged children and is besides an official ambassador representing “ FIFA for SOS Children ‘s Villages ”. [ 79 ] In accession he was an ambassador of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 World AIDS Day. He has besides taken separate in a campaign against speeding and respective others such as Bündnis für Kinder, a campaign against child misuse. [ 23 ] [ 80 ] Lahm was awarded a Tolerantia-Preis on 20 September 2008, due to his great contribution against intolerance and homophobia in sports, peculiarly in football. He besides stated that it ‘s a “ feel for that being gay in football is inactive a taboo subject ” and he would have no problem with a homosexual teammate and is “ not afraid of homosexuals ”. [ 81 ] however, Lahm does not advise footballers to publicly admit to being homosexual, because of the pervert they would suffer .
autobiography [edit ]
In August 2011 at senesce 27 he released his autobiography, Der feine Unterschied: Wie man heute Spitzenfußballer wird ( The Subtle Difference – How to Become a top Footballer ), reviewing his football career and personal experiences, the general football environment, football in the social context and the potency of different coaching and coach methods. The No.1 bestselling book received extensive media care in Germany, and has been criticized for parts of the record in which he discerningly analyzed his former coaches ‘ work, among the critics were Rudi Völler ( himself criticized by Lahm in the book ) and Ottmar Hitzfeld. [ 84 ]
career statistics [edit ]
baseball club [edit ]
- As of 20 May 2017.
Club
Season
League
Cup
Continental
Other
Total
League
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Bayern Munich II
2001–02
Regionalliga Süd
27
2
—
—
27
2
[85]
2002–03
34
1
1
0
35
1
[86]
2005–06
2
0
—
2
0
[87]
Totals
63
3
1
0
—
64
3
—
Bayern Munich
2002–03
Bundesliga
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
[88]
2005–06
20
0
4
0
3
0
0
0
27
0
[87]
2006–07
34
1
3
0
9
0
2
0
48
1
[89]
2007–08
22
0
5
0
10
1
3
0
40
1
[90]
2008–09
28
3
3
1
8
0
—
39
4
[91]
2009–10
34
0
6
1
13
0
53
1
[92]
2010–11
34
3
5
0
8
0
1
0
48
3
[93]
2011–12
31
0
5
0
14
0
—
50
0
[94]
2012–13
29
0
5
0
12
0
1
0
47
0
[95]
2013–14
28
1
4
0
12
0
4
0
48
1
[96][97]
2014–15
20
2
4
0
8
0
1
0
33
2
[98]
2015–16
26
1
6
0
12
0
1
0
45
1
[99][100]
2016–17
26
1
4
1
7
0
1
0
38
2
[101][102]
Totals
332
12
54
3
117
1
14
0
517
16
—
Stuttgart (loan)
2003–04
Bundesliga
31
1
1
0
7
0
1
0
40
1
[103]
2004–05
22
1
2
0
6
1
1
0
31
1
[104]
Totals
53
2
3
0
13
1
2
0
71
3
—
Career totals
448
17
58
3
130
2
16
0
652
22
—
International [edit ]
Germany
Year
Apps
Goals
2004
15
1
2005
0
0
2006
15
1
2007
7
0
2008
15
1
2009
11
0
2010
12
1
2011
10
0
2012
10
1
2013
9
0
2014
9
0
Total
113
5
Scores and results table. Germany’s goal tally first:
Honours [edit ]
Bayern Munich [ 106 ]
Germany
Individual
See besides [edit ]
References [edit ]
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