Bastian Schweinsteiger was born in the year 1984 and he is of German citizenship and a professional footballer playing as a midfielder in Manchester United, an English Club. He is a right footed player and he most of the time plays like a Central Midfielder. Before this career, he was playing as a wide midfielder.
He spent over 13 seasons with Bayern Munich and he had played 500 matches around all the competitions while he scored 68 goals. He had the honors at his club and they included UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Championship League, Seven DFB-Pokal and Bundesliga titles. Bastian Schweinsteiger played for German National team since 2004 until 2016.
He is the fourth most capped player of Germany citizenship. He got 121 caps and scored over 24 goals in his 12 year international career that started in the year 2004. He got selected in his squad for four European championships and for three world cups and this included the 2014 FIFA World Cup. After international retirement of Philipp Lahm in 2014, Bastian Schweinsteiger became the captain of his national team.
According to his biography, Bastian Schweinsteiger was born as Roman Catholic and he came to be known to his fans like Basti or Schweini. Basti was used if there is a need to distinguish him from Tobias, his elder brother. Tobias is a professional footballer who played in Bayern Munich but he was in the reserve team.
Bastian Schweinsteiger was dating model Sarah Brandnera since 2007 up to 2014 and they were living together in Munich. In the year 2014, he started a relationship with Ana Ivanovi? who is a Serbian Tennis Player and she became his wife, when they got married in 2016. His salary is 14.3 million pounds. His net worth is 82 million dollars. His transfer from Bayern Munich to Manchester UTD was on 7.65million pounds fee. His twitter account is @BSchweinsteiger.
Bastian Schweinsteiger plays mostly in centre; however he is known to be versatile enough and offers options on wing both right and left. During the years he spent with Bayern, he came to be regarded as the best Midfielder in the entire world. He possesses fearsome shot and a wicked delivery from the set pieces and the boundless energy that can serve him well.
He was dubbed like a midfield motor and he was also superb reader of a game. He has been able to score well because of good positioning. Once he was called to be the Brain of German national team by his coach Joachim Low. He got voted to be Best German Player of 2013. He also came to be named Midfield mastermind.
Bastian Schweinsteiger started to play in the year 1998 when he was a youth player at the youth side club. He was also a ski racer and had to choose between continuing with a professional career in skiing or in football.
Birth Date: | 1 Aug, 1984 |
Age: | 35 yrs |
Occupations: | Association football player |
Citizenship: | Germany |
Birth Place: | Kolbermoor |
Gender: | Male |
Description: | German footballer |
Twitter Id: | BSchweinsteiger |
Spouse: | Ana Ivanovic [M. 2016] |
Net Worth 2021: | 90 million |