Mehmet Scholl
Scholl in 2016
Personal information
Full name Mehmet Tobias Scholl[1]
Birth name Mehmet Tobias Yüksel[1]
Date of birth (1970-10-16) 16 October 1970
Place of birth Karlsruhe, West Germany
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) 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)
International career
1991–1992 Germany U21 5 (3)
1992 Germany Olympic 1 (0)
1995–2002 Germany 36 (8)
Managerial career
2008–2009 Bayern Munich U13
2009–2010 Bayern Munich II
2012–2013 Bayern Munich II
Medal record
Bayern Munich
WinnerBundesliga1994
Runner-upDFB-Supercup1994
WinnerUEFA Cup1996
WinnerBundesliga1997
WinnerDFB-Ligapokal1997
WinnerDFB-Pokal1998
WinnerDFB-Ligapokal1998
WinnerBundesliga1999
Runner-upDFB-Pokal1999
Runner-upUEFA Champions League1999
WinnerDFB-Ligapokal1999
WinnerBundesliga2000
WinnerDFB-Pokal2000
WinnerDFB-Ligapokal2000
WinnerBundesliga2001
WinnerUEFA Champions League2001
Runner-upUEFA Super Cup2001
WinnerIntercontinental Cup2001
WinnerBundesliga2003
WinnerDFB-Pokal2003
WinnerDFB-Ligapokal2004
WinnerBundesliga2005
WinnerDFB-Pokal2005
WinnerBundesliga2006
WinnerDFB-Pokal2006
Runner-upDFB-Ligapokal2006
 Germany
WinnerEuropean Championship1996
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mehmet Tobias Scholl (born Mehmet Tobias 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), Euro 1996, and the UEFA Champions League in 2001, as well as eight German Championships (all with Bayern Munich). 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.

Club career

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 played in 468 competitive matches for Bayern, scoring 116 goals – 88 of these appearances were in European cup competitions (18 goals).[2]

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.[3] He scored 98 goals (11 for Karlsruhe, 87 for Bayern) in 392 Bundesliga matches (58 for Karlsruhe, 334 for Bayern).[4] 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.[5]

International career

Scholl playing for Germany, c. 1999

Scholl played 36 matches for the German national team between 1995 and 2002, scoring eight goals.[6] He was part of Germany's winning team at Euro 96 where he played in the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final. In the 69th minute of the final when the Czech Republic was leading 1–0, he was substituted for the then relatively unknown Oliver Bierhoff who went on to score the two goals that turned the match around for Germany, catapulting Bierhoff to national and international fame.[7] Scholl also played in all three of Germany's games at Euro 2000, scoring Germany's only goal in the tournament against Romania.[8]

Scholl repeatedly suffered injuries throughout his career, preventing him from maintaining a regular spot on the national team and eventually prompting him to retire from the national team prior to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, making him one of Germany's most successful players never to have played in a World Cup.

Among German football fans, Scholl was one of the most popular footballers because of his character and his unique skills. Before the 2006 World Cup Campaign, more than 100,000 people signed an online petition, "Mehmet für Deutschland",[9] to persuade Jürgen Klinsmann to include Scholl in the German squad. Despite the public support, Scholl was not included.

International goals

Scores and results list Germany's goal tally first.[10]
#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.29 May 1996Windsor Park, Belfast Northern Ireland1–11–1Friendly
2.4 June 1999BayArena, Leverkusen Moldova5–06–1Euro 2000 qualifier
3.14 November 1999Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo Norway1–01–0Friendly
4.7 June 2000Dreisamstadion, Freiburg Liechtenstein2–18–2
5.12 June 2000Stade Maurice Dufrasne, Liège Romania1–11–1Euro 2000
6.16 August 2000Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover Spain1–04–1Friendly
7.2–0
8.15 November 2000Parken Stadium, Copenhagen Denmark1–21–2

Coaching career

Scholl (right) coaching Bayern Munich II in 2009

On 27 April 2009, he was named as interim head coach for Bayern Munich II.[11] He replaced Hermann Gerland who became assistant coach under Jupp Heynckes and continued to work as under-13 head coach. In July 2009 he was appointed as permanent manager of Bayern II and left the team on 30 June 2010 for a year, working on his coaching licence.[12] Scholl returned to Bayern Munich II as head coach.[13] In January 2013, Scholl announced that he would leave the team at the end of the 2012–13 season because he wanted to focus on his job as a TV pundit and that it conflicted with his work as coach.[14]

Personal life

Scholl was born in Karlsruhe, the second son of Ergin and Hella Yüksel, a Turkish father and a German mother. When he was five, his parents divorced, and his mother then married Hermann Scholl from whom Mehmet acquired his surname.

In May 2002 and October 2003, he released two successful mixtapes, featuring his favourite bands. The compilation's title "Mehmet Scholl kompiliert – Vor dem Spiel ist nach dem Spiel" is a reference to Sepp Herberger's famous expression "nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" ("after the game is before the game"). In an interview, Scholl said he chose this title because he listens to this music before the game, after the game, in the car on the way to the stadium, and in the car when leaving the stadium. The first volume includes songs by The Beta Band, Sportfreunde Stiller, Jimmy Eat World, and The Notwist (complete track list[15]) among others. The second volume includes songs by Oasis, Wir sind Helden, and The Flaming Lips (complete track list[16]) to name a few. Once a month, he co-presents the feature Mehmets Schollplatten[17] in the program Nachtmix of the Bayern 2 radio station, which is the culturally oriented channel of the federal public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.

As a young player, Scholl was quoted with the words "hängt die Grünen, solange es noch Bäume gibt" ("hang the Greens while there still are trees"), seemingly expressing his dislike for the German Green Party. He was widely criticized for this quote because most people did not understand his point which was to point out that in the near future there might be no trees left, thereby giving his statement an ironic touch. Even though he made further ironic remarks in this interview ("One thing you'd never do?" "I'd never put a blind man at an advertising pillar and tell him that this is the wall he needs to walk down to get home."), some people did not get the jokes. However, he was sued by a Green politician for instigation to murder and eventually he donated 15,000 DM to charity. Afterwards, Scholl was asked by a journalist which party he would vote for, but he answered: "Green naturally – I cannot leave them hanging" ("Grün natürlich, ich kann sie ja nicht hängenlassen").[18]

Scholl is officially without religious confession, but is an avid follower of Buddhist principles.[18]

Since his retirement from football, he has taken up nine-pin bowling (Kegeln), a sport in which he already excelled as a youth.[19]

Career statistics

Club

[20]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Karlsruher SC 1989–90 Bundesliga 3100––31
1990–91 27610––286
1991–92 28421––305
Total 58113100006112
Bayern Munich 1992–93 Bundesliga 31720––337
1993–94 271121–413313
1994–95 31910101034312
1995–96 301020–1154315
1996–97 23531–20286
1997–98 3296220804811
1998–99 134200030184
1999–2000 25631201234210
2000–01 29911211654816
2001–02 186310020237
2002–03 184401040274
2003–04 5021101091
2004–05 203210051275
2005–06 183320060275
2006–07 141101040201
Total 3348737111018818469117
Career total 3929840121018818530129

International

Country Season Competitive Friendlies Total Ref
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Germany
1994–95 201030[10]
1995–96 306191[10]
1996–97 201030[10]
1997–98 ———[10]
1998–99 610061[10]
1999–2000 315283[10]
2000–01 303363[10]
2001–02 —1010[10]
Career total 192176368[10]

Managerial statistics

As of 24 May 2013
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Bayern Munich II 27 April 2009[11] 30 June 2010[12] 41 8 10 23 35 61 −26 019.51
Bayern Munich II 1 July 2012[13] 30 June 2013[14] 38 21 10 7 71 31 +40 055.26
Totals 79 29 20 30 106 92 +14 036.71

Honours

Scholl's winner's medal from the 2000–01 UEFA Champions League, in the Bayern Munich museum.

Club

Bayern Munich

International

Germany

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 Mehmet Scholl at FootballDatabase.eu
  2. ↑ Marcel Haisma (31 July 2008). "Mehmet Scholl – Matches in European Cups". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "1. FC Köln – Karlsruher SC, 21.04.1990". dfb.de (in German). 31 July 2000. Archived from the original on 7 October 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  4. ↑ Matthias Arnhold (31 October 2013). "Mehmet Scholl – Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  5. ↑ "Fans name greatest Reds of all time". fcbayern.de. 1 June 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  6. ↑ "Spielerinfo Scholl". dfb.de (in German). Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  7. ↑ "Spielbilanz". dfb.de (in German). Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  8. ↑ Matthias Arnhold (19 December 2002). "Mehmet Scholl – International Appearances". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  9. ↑ "Mehmet für Deutschland!" (in German). Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Mehmet Scholl". German Football Association (in German). Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  11. 1 2 ""Psychologische Barriere" muss aufgelöst werden". kicker (in German). 27 April 2009. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  12. 1 2 "Bayerns Drittliga-Team: Gerland statt Scholl" [Bayern's 3rd League team: Gerland instead of Scholl]. Abendzeitung (in German). 1 March 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  13. 1 2 "Scholl kehrt zurück". kicker (in German). 18 December 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  14. 1 2 Andreas Burkert; Benedikt Warmbrunn (25 January 2013). "Mehmet Scholl gibt Amt als Bayern-Trainer ab". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 25 January 2013.
  15. ↑ Complete track list.
  16. ↑ Complete track list.
  17. ↑ "Achim 60 und Mehmet an den Plattentellern". br.de (in German). 21 April 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  18. 1 2 "Von jetzt an gehe ich kegeln". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 18 May 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  19. ↑ "Einfach normal sein". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 6 March 2008. Archived from the original on 10 March 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2008.
  20. ↑ "Mehmet Scholl". kicker.de (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  21. ↑ "Bundesliga Historie 1997/98" (in German). kicker.
  22. ↑ "Bundesliga Historie 2000/01" (in German). kicker.

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