Tim Wiese

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Tim Wiese
File:Tim Wiese, Germany national football team (05).jpg
Wiese with Germany in 2011.
Personal information
Full name Tim Wiese[1]
Date of birth (1981-12-17) 17 December 1981 (age 42)
Place of birth Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany
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Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1987–1989 DJK Dürscheid
1989–1999 Bayer Leverkusen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2001 Fortuna Köln 23 (0)
2001–2003 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)
Total 307 (0)
International career‡
2003–2005 Germany U21 13 (0)
2008–2012 Germany 6 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 April 2013
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:01, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Tim Wiese (German pronunciation: [ˈtɪm ˈviːzə]; born 17 December 1981 in Bergisch Gladbach) is a German former 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. Since then, he has won five further caps, and was part of the German 2010 FIFA World Cup squad, but did not make an appearance in that tournament.

Association football career

Club

Early career and Fortuna Köln

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.

Kaiserslautern

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 2nd 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.

Werder Bremen

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Wiese with Werder Bremen in 2009

Wiese moved to Bremen in 2005 and was favoured to replace the aging Andreas Reinke, but tore his cruciate ligaments twice and missed the entire first part of the season. Following Reinke sustaining an injury in a match against VfB Stuttgart in February 2006, Wiese made his Bundesliga debut for Werder Bremen, and remained their first goalkeeper for the rest of the 2005–06 season.

However, Wiese (who is often compared to former German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn for his emotional outbursts) had a shaky start, with an error against Juventus in the 2nd round of the Champions League on 7 March 2006 being of particular note. With only two minutes of the game left to play, and Werder Bremen on course to reach the quarter-finals, he made a routine catch, but then dropped the ball as he rolled on the ground, allowing Emerson to score and Juventus to progress. However, he has stabilized since then, and was vital for Bremen's late surge that moved them past rivals Hamburg to claim second place during the 2005–06 season.

In the 2006–07 season, he eventually established himself as the first goalkeeper at Werder Bremen and only missed three Bundesliga matches throughout the season. In the 2008–09 DFB-Pokal semi-final against Hamburg, Wiese helped Werder Bremen progress to the final when he saved 3 consecutive penalties.

Hoffenheim

On 2 May 2012, Wiese signed for 1899 Hoffenheim for an undisclosed fee,[2][3] and was made club captain in August.[4] However, a poor start to the season saw Wiese conceding 15 goals in four games, resulting in Hoffenheim's manager Markus Babbel issuing a statement defending the goalkeeper.[5] In November 2012, it was announced that Wiese had injured his knee in a training session, and would be unavailable until January.[6] Following the signing of Heurelho Gomes from Tottenham Hotspur on loan at the end of January 2013, Wiese was dropped from the squad, with Hoffenheim's manager Andreas Mueller stating "Tim doesn't have a chance in the current situation. No matter what he does, he doesn't have an opportunity to be assessed sensibly."[7] Wiese and teammate Tobias Weis were fined an undisclosed amount following an incident at a carnival party on 11 February 2013, where the two players were ejected by security.[8] In March 2013, Mueller announced that Wiese could leave the club on a free transfer if they were relegated,[9] prompting several of his teammates to come to his defense, including Weis and team captain Sejad Salihovic.[10] During the season, Wiese made ten appearances for Hoffenheim, conceding 25 goals, with his last appearance coming in a 2-1 defeat against Eintracht Frankfurt on 26 January.[11] Hoffenheim avoided relegation to the 2. Bundesliga, prompting further speculation about Wiese's future at the club.[12]

His contract with Hoffenheim was mutually terminated on 21 January 2014, making him a free agent, after it was revealed that his body was in a bodybuilding style, unsuited to professional football.[13][14]

International

He earned his first international cap for Germany against England on 19 November 2008, when he came in as a substitute for René Adler at the beginning of the second half.[15]

He was a squad member for Germany in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but was the only player not seeing any action as an understudy to Schalke 04 goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and was denied an appearance in the third-place playoff due to injury, enabling Bayern Munich veteran Hans-Jörg Butt to step in.

Retirement

On 17 September 2014, Wiese announced his retirement from professional football stating: "I am not a dreamer, but a realist and I assume that I have my best years behind me and I will no longer play as a professional."

WWE (2014)

In September 2014, Wiese claimed he had been offered a development contract by the WWE to join their NXT division.[16] He appeared as a guest timekeeper at a WWE live event in Frankfurt.[17]

Football career statistics

Club

As of 18 May 2013.
Club performance League Cup Continental Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Germany League DFB-Pokal Europe Total
2000–01 Fortuna Köln Regionalliga Nord 2 0 1 0 – 3 0
2001–02 21 0 0 0 – 21 0
Kaiserslautern II Regionalliga Süd 11 0 0 0 – 11 0
2002–03 4 0 0 0 – 4 0
Kaiserslautern Bundesliga 21 0 5 0 – 26 0
2003–04 30 0 1 0 2 0 33 0
2004–05 14 0 0 0 – 14 0
2005–06 Werder Bremen 15 0 0 0 2 0 17 0
2006–07 31 0 0 0 12 0 43 0
2007–08 31 0 3 0 10 0 44 0
2008–09 29 0 5 0 12 0 46 0
2009–10 31 0 6 0 10 0 47 0
2010–11 29 0 1 0 7 0 37 0
2011–12 28 0 1 0 – 29 0
2012–13 1899 Hoffenheim 10 0 1 0 – 11 0
2013–14 0 0 0 0 – 0 0
Total 307 0 24 0 55 0 386 0

International

Germany national team
Year Apps Goals
2008 1 0
2009 1 0
2010 1 0
2011 2 0
2012 1 0
Total 6 0

Statistics accurate as of match played 29 February 2012[18]

Honours

Club

Werder Bremen[19]

National team

Germany

Individual

References

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