Sven Bender
Along with his brother Lars, he was part of the Germany U-19 side that won the 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship.
Full name: Sven Bender
Date of birth: 27 April 1989
Place of birth: Rosenheim, West Germany
Height: 1.83 m
Playing position: Midfielder
Nuri Sahin
Club Career:
Borussia Dortmund:On 6 August 2005, at the age of 16 years and 335 days, Şahin set a record by becoming the youngest player to have played in the Bundesliga, and became the youngest player to score in the Bundesliga on 25 November 2005 scoring against Nuremberg.
Feyenoord: On 5 July 2007, Şahin was transferred to Feyenoord on a one-year loan agreement, where he was reunited with Bert van Marwijk, his former coach at Borussia Dortmund.
Borussia Dortmund: Şahin returned to Dortmund where he played an important role in the 2009–10 season, starting 33 out of 34 matches. He ended the season with 4 goals und 8 assists.
Full name: Nuri Kazım Şahin
Date of birth: 5 September 1988
Place of birth: Lüdenscheid, West Germany
Height: 1.80 m
Playing position: Midfielder
Sebastian Kehl
He is the current captain of Dortmund; he first wore the captain’s armband in a 2–1 German Supercup victory over Bayern Munich.
Born in Fulda, Kehl joined Borussia Dortmund in 2001 and has made 127 appearances. Kehl is undoubtedly a key player for the club, but he has faced many injury problems over his career; he made only 20 league appearances for the first team over the past two seasons.
He made his international debut against Slovakia in 2001 and has made a total of 31 appearances for Germany (as of July 8, 2006). Kehl won the runner-up in 2002 World Cup and the 3rd place in 2006 World Cup.
Full name: Sebastian Walter Kehl
Date of birth: February 13, 1980
Place of birth: Fulda, West Germany
Height: 1.88 m
Playing position: Defensive midfielder
Jürgen Klopp (born 16 June 1967 in Stuttgart) is a German football manager, currently in charge of Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga.
Klopp played 340 games for Mainz 05 from 1990 to 2001. He originally played as a striker, before starting to play as a defender in the 1995-96 season.
Coaching: He was the manager of 1. FSV Mainz 05 for 8 years. During this period he led the team to its first appearance in the German Fußball-Bundesliga.
During his management the club also qualified for the UEFA Cup 2005-06. In the qualification he beat Armenian side FC MIKA and Icelandic side Keflavík, but in the main tournament his side lost to Sevilla FC – the team that later won the tournament.
In 2007, Mainz were relegated, but he remained manager for another season. However, due to the fact that Mainz did not achieve promotion, he left the job after the 2007-08 season at his own request; in May 2008, he was appointed as the new manager of Borussia Dortmund. He signed a two-year contract at the club, which had finished in a disappointing 13th place under previous manager Thomas Doll. Soon Klopp managed to gain his first trophy – DFB-Supercup (defeating champions Bayern Munich 2-1)
Full name: Jürgen Norbert Klopp
Date of birth: June 16, 1967
Place of birth: Stuttgart, West Germany
Playing position: Forward (Retired)
Julian Koch
Career
Koch was born in Schwerte and settled 1991 with his family to Dortmund, here began Koch his career with VfL Hörde. In summer 2001 left VfL Hörde and signed an youth contract for Borussia Dortmund.
After seven years on youthside for Borussia Dortmund was in July 2008 promoted to the reserve side and earned his first cap in the Regionalliga West against FSV Mainz 05 II.
On 06 March 2010 made his Fußball-Bundesliga debut for Borussia Dortmund in a 3:0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Full name: Julian Koch
Date of birth: 11 November 1990
Place of birth: Schwerte, West Germany
Height: 1.84 m
Playing position: Defender
Mats Hummels
A product of FC Bayern Munich’s youth ranks, Hummels signed his first professional contract on 19 December 2006, until 2010. On 19 May 2007, in the season’s final match, he played his first league game with the first team, in a 5–2 home routing of 1. FSV Mainz 05.
On January 2008, Hummels joined Borussia Dortmund, initially on loan. During his first full season, he quickly established himself as first-choice, as he often partnered newly signed Neven Subotić (also born in December 1988), but also missed a great part of its final months due to injury. In February 2009, he was fully signed to the club.
Full name: Mats Julian Hummels
Date of birth: 16 December 1988
Place of birth: Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany
Height: 1.91 m
Playing position: Centre back
Patrick Owomoyela
Owomoyela, a right-sided defender/midfielder, began his career in lower league German football. In 2003, he made the step up to Arminia Bielefeld, then in the second division.
Great performances for Bielefeld in the 2004–05 season earned Owomoyela interest from German top clubs, and in 2005, he joined giants SV Werder Bremen. In his first season Owomoyela was the undisputed starter at right back and helped Bremen reach second in the league. With the arrival of Clemens Fritz the following season, however, he lost his starting position due to injuries and bad displays. Owomoyela was finally transferred to Borussia Dortmund at the beginning of the 2008-09 season, where he looks to reestablish himself in German top-flight football.
Date of birth: 5 November 1979
Place of birth: Hamburg, West Germany
Height: 1.87 m
Playing position: Right Wingback, Defensive Midfielder
Club Career: Lüneburger SK – VfL Osnabrück – SC Paderborn 07 – Arminia Bielefeld – SV Werder Bremen – Borussia Dortmund
Marc Ziegler
VfB Stuttgart was immersed in a goalkeeping crisis after the defection of legendary Eike Immel to England’s Manchester City in the 1995 summer. Youth graduate Ziegler – then 19 – won the battle for first-choice over longtime backup Eberhard Trautner and played all the season’s matches save five, but the club finished 10th with the second-worst defensive record in the league, only winning to Eintracht Frankfurt.
In the following three years, Ziegler only played 12 more matches combined, eventually leaving club and country in 2000, after a brief spell at Arminia Bielefeld: he started in Turkey with Bursaspor, then left in January 2001 to Austria, where he was the starter for FC Tirol Innsbruck in back-to-back league titles. In his second season, he also stayed unbeaten for more than 1000 minutes, coming close to an all-time European best.
Date of birth: June 13, 1976
Place of birth: Blieskastel, West Germany
Height: 1.92 m
Playing position: Goalkeeper
Career:SV Webenheim – Saarbrücken – Stuttgart ( Youth ) – Stuttgart – Arminia Bielefeld – Bursaspor – Tirol Innsbruck – Austria Vienna – Hannover – Austria Vienna – Saarbrücken – Arminia Bielefeld – Borussia Dortmund – Stuttgart
Mario Gómez García (born 10 July 1985 in Riedlingen) is a German footballer.. Gómez joined Bayern after six years in Stuttgart. The fee was a record for a player transferred in the Bundesliga, estimated to be €30–35 million. When Stuttgart became champions in 2006–07 and Gómez contributed 14 goals he was elected German footballer of the year. In the following seasons Gómez has improved on his record each time, scoring 35 goals over the course of the 2008–09 season.
Club career: Unlingen – Bad Saulgau – Ulm 1846 – Stuttgart (Youth career) – VfB Stuttgart – Bayern Munich
Full name: Mario Gómez García
Date of birth: 10 July 1985
Place of birth: Riedlingen, West Germany
Height: 1.89 m
Playing position: Striker
Miroslav Klose (born Mirosław Marian Kloze on 9 June 1978 in Opole, Poland) is a German association footballer who plays as a striker for Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga. He has a good scoring record in domestic football, an excellent goal to game ratio in international football, as well as a decent assists tally. Since bursting onto the international stage at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he has become well-known for his knack of scoring headers and his front-flip goal celebration routine.
Born in the Polish part of Silesia, Klose plays for the German national team. He is German and Polish by birth and qualified for selection by the German national team because of the German nationality of his father. He was the top scorer and thus the Golden Boot winner at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, with five goals. Klose also scored five goals in his debut World Cup, the 2002 World Cup hosted jointly by the Korea Republic and Japan, giving him a total of ten goals in World Cup finals. He is the first German player since the reunification of Germany to finish as the World Cup’s top scorer, and the only player to have scored five or more goals in consecutive World Cups.
Full name: Miroslav Marian Klose
Date of birth: 9 June 1978
Place of birth: Opole, Poland
Height: 1.82 m
Playing position: Striker
Club career: Kaiserslautern – Werder Bremen – Bayern Munich
Miroslav Klose World Cup 2010 South Africa Video