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Mehmet Scholl (born October 16, 1970) is a
Germany|German football (soccer) player. As of
2005, he is an attacking midfielder for Bayern
Munich.

Scholl was born in Karlsruhe, the first son of
Hella and Ergin Yüksel, a German mother and a
Turkish immigrant father. At the age of five, his
father left the family and returned to Turkey.
When his mother then married Hermann Scholl,
Mehmet acquired his stepfather's last name.

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 has
been with Bayern longer than any other current
player and has extended his contract through the
end of the 2005/06 season, which will be his 14th
season with the Munich club. Wearing the number 7
jersey, he has played in 424 competitive matches
for Bayern, scoring 114 goals.

He is one of the Bundesliga (football)|German
Bundesliga's most successful players, winning the
championship a record seven times (only Klaus
Augenthaler, Lothar Matthäus and Alexander
Zickler have won as many Bundesliga titles). Aged
19, he made his Bundesliga debut on April 21,
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
http://www.dfb.de/bliga/bundes/archiv/1989/schemen
/265.html. He has scored 95 goals (11 for
Karlsruhe, 84 for Bayern) in 361 Bundesliga
matches (58 for Karlsruhe, 303 for Bayern). He has
been praised for his technical ability, his
creative playmaking, his dribbling skills, and his
Free kick|free kicks. In early 2001, he was voted
Player of the Year 2000 by the professional
players of the First and Second Bundesliga.

Scholl played 36 matches for the Germany national
football team|German national team between 1995
and 2002, scoring eight goals
http://www.dfb.de/dfb-team/db/dfbnat.php?lang=D&li
ga=Nationalmannschaft&action=spielerinfo&llang=1&v
orname=&nachname=Scholl. He was part of Germany's
winning team at Ec|96 where he played in the
quarterfinal, semifinal, and final. He has the
curious distinction of being the player who, in
the 69th minute of the final when the Czech
Republic national football team|Czech Republic
were leading 1-0, was subbed out 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
http://www.dfb.de/dfb-team/db/schema.php?lang=D&li
ga=Nationalmannschaft&matchid=dfbat27. Scholl also
played in all three of Germany's games at Euro
2000, scoring Germany's only goal in the
tournament.

Unfortunately, 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 Wc|2002, making him one
of Germany's most successful players never to have
played in a Football World Cup|World Cup. His
frequent injuries also seem to have contributed to
his often not playing for the full 90 minutes. He
is, in fact, the most substituted player in Bayern
Munich history. In 424 matches, he was subbed out
147 times and subbed in 106 times.

In 1993, Scholl married Susanne Pfannendörfer.
Their son Lucas-Julian was born on July 5, 1996.
Scholl and his wife separated just three months
later, in October that same year. They are now
divorced.







Games played and goals
scored for Bayern Munich

(as of August 27, 2005)



Competition
Games
Goals
Years Won



Bundesliga (football)|German Bundesliga
303
84
1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005



UEFA Champions League
61
12
20011



UEFA Cup
17
6
1996



German Cup
34
11
1998, 2000, 2003, 2005



German League Cup
8
1
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 20042



German Supercup
1
0
 



Total
424
114
 





1In 2001, Bayern also won the
European/South American Cup|Intercontinental Cup
(Toyota Cup) by defeating Boca Juniors from
Argentina, but Scholl didn't play in
that match.

2Bayern won the League Cup in 2004,
but Scholl didn't play in that
tournament.







==References==

* www.fcbayern.de (May 2, 2005).
http://www.fcbayern.t-com.de/en/news/news/2005/039
28.php?fcb_sid=9e8de18867d549564e1ccb56572083ab
"Seven up for serial champion Mehmet". Retrieved
May 13, 2005.
* BBC Sport (April 24, 2002).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_
pages/germany/newsid_1949000/1949480.stm "Scholl
hangs up international boots". Retrieved May 13,
2005.
* Nick Bidwell, "FC Hollywood's leading man".
http://www.worldsoccer.com/ World Soccer, vol. 41,
no. 8 (May 2001), page 18.
* BBC Sport (February 9, 2001).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/11
62593.stm "Scholl scoops award". Retrieved May 13,
2005.
* kicker online (February 9, 2001).
http://www.kicker.de/content/news/artikel.asp?obje
ct=241132 "Mehmet Scholl und Martin Driller ganz
vorne" (in German). Retrieved May 13, 2005.

==External links==
* http://mehmet-scholl.com/ Fan site
*
http://www.fcbayern.t-com.de/en/teams/profis/00113
.php Player profile on the Bayern Munich website