But the level of German basketball, frankly speaking, leaves much to be desired, which is why Philip gradually became interested in football. From a young age he supported Bayern Munich, and soon he was lucky enough to get to the Olympic Stadium.
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↓Philipp Lahm was born on November 11th 1983 years in Munich. As a child, the child was very fond of basketball and wanted to be like “his airiness” Michael. But the level of German basketball, frankly speaking, leaves much to be desired, which is why Philip gradually became interested in football. From a young age he supported Bayern Munich, and soon he was lucky enough to get to the Olympic Stadium.
Lahm is the “flesh of the flesh” of Bayern Munich and the “wings” of the national team. An excellent player who has all the qualities of a modern top-class footballer. A native of Munich, a native of sports family, he began to learn football skills in the team of the regional sports club "Gern", where his mother was in charge of the children's and youth department.
When the guy's talent became obvious, he was invited to the Bayern academy, which he successfully completed. The guy would have played for another five years for the Lederhosen reserve, at best spending a season or two somewhere on loan from time to time, if not for Felix Magath, the then coach of Stuttgart.
Herr coach was just forming the “Schwabian” squad from promising and talented youth, and one day he turned to his old friend, and part-time mentor youth team“Bavaria” to Hermann Gerland with a question about capable youngsters who are already ready to fight in big football.
It is worth paying tribute to Lederhosen, whose management did not sell the junior, limiting themselves to a two-year loan to Lahm. In Stuttgart, Philippe not only played, but became one of the stars. It is not surprising that Magath, having been invited to the coaching bridge at Bayern, did not hesitate to take one of his favorites with him.
The “returnee” Lam immediately staked out his position on the left sideline, sending the ageless Lizarazu into retirement. For Philip, who, according to the assurances of his family and friends, in everyday life is simply “a darling, good friend and a sincere guy,” everything worked out in the Bundesteam. Before the start of the Mundial, 2006 Lam injured his elbow and was forced to miss the start of training national team for the World Cup, but the national team coaches immediately stated that they believed in Phil and were not going to look for a replacement for him. "We will wait as long as necessary.
Lam is a true modern defender - aggressive, mobile, thinking." After such support, the player recovered quite quickly and with a miracle goal against Costa Rica in the very first match of the World Cup, he thanked everyone who believed in him. And at the end of the championship, Lam became one of the most tidbits of the global transfer market.
But Philipp remained at Bayern to eventually become one of the leaders. For example, in the season 2006 /2007 Lahm made 34 appearances in the Bundesliga and nine more in the Champions League, while being replaced only twice. The following season, another young and very talented German lateral moved to Bayern - Marcel Jansen, who gravitated towards playing on the left flank. Lama was transferred to the right (he himself admitted more than once that he prefers to “furrow” the right edge). True, after injuries to Jansen, Willy Sagnol and Lahm himself, the Rothos coach’s cards turned out to be confused, so Philip had to play on the left flank.
In summer 2008 year, Lahm almost ended up in Barcelona, but quite unexpectedly for many, he extended his contract with Bayern until June 20 2012 years, deciding that “one does not seek good from good.” Lahm scored 4 goals for Bayern that season, his best total of the season.
With the arrival in 2009 year in “Die Roten” by Louis van Gaal, Lam, out of despair, “sank” on the right sideline, where he played well with Arjen Robben. As a result, Lahm made 12 assists, helping his club win the championship title and the German Cup. In the same season, Lahm became a member of Bayern. silver medalist Champions League.
In summer 2010 year, as part of the German national team, Lahm went to the World Cup 2010 , where instead of the injured Michael Ballack he was captain of the Bundestim. At the tournament, the German team won third place.
After Mark van Bommel left Bayern in January 2011 year, Lam became team captain.
The following season, Lahm again reached the Champions League final with Bayern, and again the Germans only finished second.
In season 2012 /2013 Bayern finally managed to win the Champions League, and Lahm, as captain, was the first to lift the winners' cup. In the same season, as part of Bayern, Lahm became the German champion and winner of the German Cup.
At the beginning of the season 2013 /2014 , after coach Pep Guardiola joined the team, Lahm began playing as a defensive midfielder. Under Guardiola, Bayern again won the German Cup and Bundesliga, and also won the Club World Cup. In the Champions League 2013 /2014 Bayern reached the semi-finals.
IN everyday life does charity work - in the summer 2007 years together with Piotr Trochowski visited South Africa, where he was engaged in matters related to the popularization German football. At the same time, I did not forget to participate in such projects as the “Kick-AIDS event”.
He supports the AIDS Foundation and annually donates substantial funds to an organization that opposes child abuse.
Full name: Philipp Lahm
Height: 170 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Role: full back (defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder)
Biography of Philip Lam
Lam was born in Munich, Germany. Lama can be considered to come from a sports family, despite the fact that there were no outstanding athletes among his relatives, his father loved football and played for the local team all his life. amateur team. In July 2010 he married Claudia Schattenberg, whom he dated for more than 10 years. In August 2012, Philip had a son, Julian.
Lam has always been famous for his generosity; he used the first money from his fees to help his family, then began to actively participate in various charity events carried out under the auspices of FIFA and UEFA. In December 2014, Philip opened his own charitable foundation, the purpose of which was to support needy children in Germany and several African countries.
Philipp Lahm's club career
As a child, on the instructions of his father, he was sent to football section native school, then successfully passed the selection to the Bavarian academy. The coaches of the Munich team were amazed by Philip's talents and predicted a bright future for him. In the children's and youth teams, Lahm was almost always the captain, managing to twice take the German Youth Championship title in 2001 and 2002. It is especially worth noting the composition of the Bavarian youth team in 2002: Bastian Schweinsteiger, Christian Lel, Philipp Lahm, Piotr Trachowski. Some of these players will remain in the Munich team and in 12 years will be able to win absolutely all the trophies of the European continent.
Bayern double and loan to Stuttgart
However, victory in the youth tournament did not guarantee a place in the main team. Moreover, Philipp could not gain a foothold in the Bayern 2 team for a long time and made his debut only in the 2002/03 season in a match of the fifth regional league against Wacker. It was in this team that Lahm began to show his leadership qualities, as well as his ability and desire to play in any position on the field. Philip started the season as an attacking midfielder and even managed to score one goal, but then head coach Herman Gerland transferred him to the right flank of defense. Here he became a typical flank player, capable of joining his team's attacks and playing in defense.
In November 2002, the defender made his debut in the first team of the Reds. He came on for two minutes of the Champions League match against Lens, which ended in a fighting draw 3-3. Head coach The Munich team's Markus Feulner was impressed by Lahm's performance and advised him to go on loan, since the place on the flanks of the Bavarian team was assigned to the club's proven veterans. In 2003, Philip went on loan to Stuttgart. The German will spend two years as part of this team and will be able to fully reveal his talent. Swabian head coach Felix Magath used Lahm in a variety of positions in his debut season, trying not to ruin his talent and giving him the opportunity to choose the best position himself.
As a Stuttgart player, Lahm made his debut in the Bundesliga, then played in the Champions League against Manchester United, and also played in several cup matches. With the Swabians, Philip reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League, played 8 matches on the field and was recognized as the best young player of the 2003/04 Champions League. The second season in Stuttgart started just as successfully, but a series of injuries in the second half of the season (a broken leg and a torn cruciate ligament) put an end to this chapter of Philip’s career.
Bayern's first team squad: "an amazing dwarf"
In July 2005, Philip returned to Bayern. The injured and out of shape defender sat on the bench for most of the season, occasionally replacing Bixant Lizarazu. At the end of the season, Bixant announced his retirement, which provided Lam with a chance to prove himself. He started the 2006/06 season as the main defender and has never left the team since then. By this time, Bayern was headed by Felix Magath, who, like no one else, knew what this player was capable of. In the 2007/08 season, Lahm played in 26 Bundesliga matches and 9 Champions League matches, starting all matches from starting lineup and was replaced only once.
In 2008, Bayern won the league title and the national cup. One of the leaders of that team was the “amazing dwarf,” as his own fans called him. It is not surprising that by this time a whole line of scouts had lined up outside the gates of the Allianz Arena, wanting to get their hands on the talented defender. The list of contenders included Real Madrid and Barcelona, Liverpool and Milan. However, Philipp remained loyal to his club, which is surprising, since Bayern at that time had difficulty retaining their stars. The contract with the defender was extended until June 20, 2012 and did not provide for any increase in salary.
The following season, Philipp Lahm played in all 36 Bundesliga matches, amounting to 6,120 minutes. He scored six goals + two goals in the national cup, setting his own scoring record. Despite the defender’s similar achievements, Bayern were left without trophies this season for the first time in a long time. Shortly after the end of the championship, Lahm, who enjoyed the trust of the fans, criticized the management of the Munich team for the wrong strategic development policy. Perhaps this would have cost another player his career, but not Lam, who retained his place in the base, and the team really began to change with the new season.
New achievements
In the 2010/11 season, Philip wore the captain's armband for the first time. This season, the footballer once again appeared in absolutely all matches of the season, without ever being a substitute. Philip became the German champion for the third time in his career and also won the Super Cup. In the summer of 2011, Bayern extended their leader for another four years, increasing his annual salary by 2.5 times. Philip's cost by this time was 35 million euros and, in theory, he was the most expensive flank defender in the world. However, it would be illogical to leave the club at this time, so he continued to work for the benefit of the team and already in the next season he managed to achieve his first successes on the European stage.
Together with the Bavarian team, Lahm reached the Champions League final, spending 1,170 minutes on the field. In the final match against Chelsea, he spent 120 minutes on the field and scored his penalty in a series of post-match kicks, but in the end the trophy was still lost. Lam was depressed after the final:
“I can’t convey what I feel now. This trophy was too close to be lost that way. We just have to keep working and try to reach such heights again.”
And indeed, the following season, Lahm and the entire Munich company worked hard and reached the final, where they beat Borussia Dortmund. The captain still appeared in absolutely all matches, but more often than not he ended the game on the bench. However, his place in the final meetings of the Country Cup and Champions League was not discussed, he ran these meetings from whistle to whistle and personally ensured that his team won trophies. The following season, under the leadership of Pep Guardiola, Philip's dispatching qualities emerged. He provided 12 assists at once, becoming the team's third assist and sixth in the Bundesliga. On October 18, 2014, Lahm scored his first double for Bayern, hitting the Werder goal in the 8th round of the Bundesliga.
Lam's international career
As a Bayern youth player, Lahm captained the Germany U17 and U21 teams. In 2004 he made his debut in the main Bundestim team, and already in 2004 he went to the European Championship in Portugal. The first full-fledged tournament in Lam's international career was the 2006 World Cup. Lam began this tournament with a goal against Costa Rica, which became the first goal of the 2006 World Cup. Subsequently, he played all the matches of his team, which lost to Argentina in the quarterfinals.
After this tournament, Lahm's place in the team was not discussed: in 2008 he was the main right-back for the Bundesteam at the European Championship. He scored in the semi-final winning goal against the Turkish national team, but during the break of the final against the Spaniards he was replaced due to an injury, and his team lost with a score of 0-1. He went as captain to the 2010 World Cup, replacing Michael Ballack in this post. At this tournament he played eight matches, but in the fight for third place he remained on the bench.
In the triumphant 2014 World Cup he was simply unstoppable, running back absolutely all matches of the German national team, including 120 minutes of the final match against Argentina. In the semi-final against the Brazilians, he provided two assists. Shortly after returning home, Lam announced his retirement from the national team. By that time, he had 113 matches and 5 goals scored (in official meetings).
Achievements of Philip Lam
Bayern U-21
- German Champion 2000, 2001
- Winner of the German Cup 2001
"Bavaria"
- German Champion 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014
- Winner of the German Cup 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014
- Winner of the German Super Cup 2010, 2012
- Winner of the European Super Cup 2013
- Winner of the UEFA Champions League 2013
- Winner of the Club World Championship 2013
- Winner of the German League Cup 2007
- Winner of Telekom-Cup 2013
- Winner of the Watch Cup 2013
Team Germany
- Bronze medalist at the World Championships 2006, 2010
- Silver medalist of the European Championship 2008
- Bronze medalist of the European Championship 2012
- World Champion 2014
Lama's Individual Achievements
- Member of the symbolic team of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
- Member of the symbolic team of the 2008 European Championship according to FIFA.
- Member of the symbolic team of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
- Member of the symbolic team of the 2012 European Championship according to UEFA
- Member of the symbolic European team according to UEFA: 2012
Philipp Lahm's trophies and achievements are hard to count, and his role at Bayern and, until recently, the German national team cannot be overstated. UEFA.com pays tribute to the UEFA Champions League winner and reigning world champion, who made his 500th appearance for Bayern before announcing his retirement at the end of the season.
They talk about him
"One of the reasons for my stay at Bayern was my personal relationship with Philipp Lahm, he helped me a lot from the very beginning. He always plays for high level. I haven't seen a bad match from him. He will always have a special place in my life, he is a true legend. Philipp Lahm is the smartest player I've ever coached."
Former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola
"Philip is the ideal professional who will sacrifice everything for success. He has always been important figure for me when discussing ideas. For more than ten years he has provided stability, reliability and the highest standards to the national team. He has innate authority, a willingness to take responsibility, excellent communication skills and leadership qualities."
Germany national team coach Joachim Loew
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"One of his former coaches said that Philip started playing football in my womb. He learned to walk at the age of one and always had a soft ball at his feet. With a soft one - because otherwise it would break everything around! Sometimes we went to Gern matches, where his father and uncle played, so that he could watch and play on the sidelines. Philip was five years old when the coach told him to pack his things and come to the team!"
Philip Lam's mother Daniela
Statistics
Germany national team: 113 caps, 5 goals
Eurocups: 128 matches, 3 goals
National tournaments: 441 matches, 17 goals
Path to glory
"Bayern"
The Munich native began playing for the Hern region team. At the age of 12, he received offers from Bayern and Munich 1860 - he chose the first club, because there he was allowed to serve balls in the first team's matches.
With Bayern he won two national championships among 19-year-olds, and then seven German titles.
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A separate book could be written about its versatility. When Lahm arrived at Stuttgart on loan in 2003, Felix Magath established him as the country's leading left-back. It was in this position that he showed himself in the national team and Bayern. Subsequently, he expressed a desire to play on the right sideline - where he currently operates. During the Guardiola era, it turned out that Lahm is also an excellent midfielder.
Team Germany
In the first match of the 2006 World Cup he scored in the sixth minute. “The ball had to go exactly to that point,” he recalled. “It was probably the goal of my life.” However, Lam scored the main goal of his career two years later - on last minute EURO 2008 against Turkey.
Since 2006, he was included in the symbolic teams at all five major tournaments in which he participated: the 2006 World Cup, the 2010 World Cup, and the 2014 World Cup.
For many years, one of Lam's main tormentors was Fernando Torres. Their first confrontation took place in 2002, when Torres scored the winning goal for Spain in the European Under-19 Championship. Six years later they met in a similar match at senior level. In the UEFA EURO 2008 final, El Niño beat Lahm to score the winning goal against Jens Lehmann. Torres subsequently beat the German in the semi-finals of the 2010 World Cup, the final of the 2011/12 Champions League and the semi-finals of the 2014/15 Champions League.
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Lahm's gentlemanly character is best summed up by his words after the 7-1 defeat of Brazil in the 2014 World Cup semi-finals. “It’s a depressing feeling,” he admitted. “No one usually wants the enemy to make such gross mistakes; at our level this rarely happens.”
What you might not know
Lam has established a foundation in his name, which is mainly dedicated to improving lives in South Africa through football. In 2008, he helped found the club near Johannesburg. His foundation regularly holds events and tournaments at the base.
In Lam's case, it is difficult to find negative statistics, but there is one fact. He suffered seven defeats in matches with long-term competitors from Borussia Dortmund - an anti-record for Bayern players.
Lahm became the youngest captain of the Bundesteam at the World Cup. He took over the armband from the injured Michael Ballack in South Africa in 2010, aged just 26.
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He says
"The pressure was incredibly high. I had never encountered anything like this before. The feeling, of course, was great, needless to say. Moreover, the year before we were very close to the trophy and lost in the home final on penalties. It was clear that in At the beginning of the meeting, the team was under enormous pressure, because everyone understood that losing the third final would be even harder. The pressure was incredible."
After at Wembley in the 2012/13 Champions League final
"I'm still young and haven't achieved anything yet. I have a lot to learn."
From an interview in 2004
“Whatever happens in the future, I can always look back with pleasure on my career, which I consider to be successful. Of course, I would like to win the Champions League again. If I succeeded once, I want to experience this feeling again.”
Reflections on a career coming to an end
"It has always been my joy to be a leader in coaching and to be involved in shaping the style of my teams. Whether on the field, in training or in discussions with players and coaches. The captain's armband is the best evidence that this is the right approach."
From Lam's biography
"Today a professional football player must be sociable. Otherwise, he will be isolated from the team and will not achieve success. I believe that good player it requires talent, ambition, discipline and social competence."
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What more can it achieve?
Could become Bayern's most decorated player in the Bundesliga. Lahm, with seven world titles, is one behind Kahn, Mehmet Scholl and Bastian Schweinsteiger.
First goal in the Champions League! Yes, yes, Lam still hasn’t scored it, although he has already played 109 matches in the main draw. This is among players who have not yet scored in the Champions League. What could be better than opening the scoring on the way to a second title?!
Philipp Lahm is a German footballer who plays as a central midfielder/full-back for Bayern Munich and the German national team. In both teams, Philip is the captain and the clear leader. Philipp Lahm is one of the most experienced players in the German Bayern team, as he joined the team in the early 2000s and saw the club go through several generations of players. Lahm has been playing for the German national team since 1999, but only made it into the main squad in 2004; Today, Philipp is the mainstay of the German team, participating both in the team’s attacks and in defense; under his leadership, the German national team reached the final of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, where they stole the victory from the Argentina national team - 1:0.
A fan favorite, Lahm has acquired a huge number of nicknames over the years of professional play, most of which in one way or another indicate his small stature, tenacity and speed: “The Mighty Ant”, “The Magic Dwarf” and, most popularly, “Lami”.
During his career, Lahm became the champion of the German Bundesliga 6 times, the winner of the German Cup (DFB-Pokal) 6 times and the German Super Cup (DFL-Supercup) once. In 2013, the football player and his team won the UEFA Champions League, Club Championship world and winner of the UEFA Super Cup. During his career, Philip entered the field more than 530 times.
Philipp Lahm was born on November 11, 1983 in Munich, Germany (Munich, Germany). A fan of the main city club "Bayern Munich", he played football since childhood, but over time it became noticeable that Philip's level had long since moved away from the amateur game of his peers. Since 1995, Lam began training at the Bayern Munich team's academy and also playing for the club's youth teams. Already as a teenager, he gained fame as a talented football player who should replace the veterans of German football. So, for example, the father of his future teammate, Hermann Hummels, who worked with the young talents of the Munich club for a long time, once said: “If Philipp Lahm does not end up in the Bundesliga, then no other football player has a chance ".
But Lahm, of course, ended up in the Bundesliga. For two seasons he played for the second team of his alma mater, and in 2002 he first appeared on the field in the colors of the main team. This day, as Philip recalled, was one of better days in his life.
In 2003, the player was loaned to the VfB Stuttgart team, where he was supposed to gain experience, but Lahm returned to the Bayern camp not just as a new player - he returned as a future star of the club. I wonder what the long career in the team, Lahm was rarely distinguished by beautiful goals or incredible passes, but his work on the field was almost always impeccable, and therefore, during the first seasons, the young graduate of the club became a favorite of the fans and a partner of the coaching staff on the field - he was the organizer of most of the team’s attacks, and he also had to meet his opponents with his chest.
In 2011, Lahm became captain of Bayern Munich, after which the club's performance improved sharply: thus, the subsequent seasons - 2012, 2013 and 2014 - are perhaps the best in the club's history. In 2013, thanks to Lam’s efforts, the team reached the Champions League final and entered his name into the list best clubs planet, in the same season the player’s home club became the winner of the Club World Championship.
Lahm played his first match in the uniform of the German national team in 1999. Since then, he has become a permanent member of youth teams, and in 2004 he joined the main team. The biggest achievement on the world stage, of course, was winning the World Cup in Brazil in 2014; In the final match, the Germans defeated the Argentine team in extra time. Despite greatest number matches in the national team - 113, - Lam scored goals only 5 times, last time in 2012. However, it is through him that most of the attacks of the German team go through, and it is he who often becomes the author of scoring passes.
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And I'll explain why. You can't write here curriculum vitae, because even Lam’s stage in the German national team can take several dozen pages of text - these were busy years, years of the path to triumph. You can’t write an ode of praise here, because it’s strange to write a farewell song to a person who will play at the club level for at least another five years.
This is in Colombia, almost with grandchildren in the huge goalkeeper’s arms, and a 38-year-old Mario Yepes debuts at the World Championships. In England, almost everything that the national team creates still depends (but, perhaps, has already “depended”) on the 34-year-old Steven Gerrard and 36 year old Frank Lampard. Stern and prudent Germans know how to choose a place and time. Bomber of all time Gerd Müller finished international career at 29 years old. He ended it the same way as Lahm did - with a victory at the World Championships. This was in 1974.
Since we started talking about the 1974 World Cup, then there was such a young guy at the National Mannschaft on the left in defense, stocky, bearded with a stern expression on his face. His name was Paul Breitner. When Phipsey scored a crazy goal against Costa Rica in his first World Cup, he was invariably compared to Breitner: finally, they say, there is a left-back who can effectively go on attack and not lose himself in defense! Who knew then that in eight years he would change two more positions in the national team?
Where Lam and Breitner were exactly alike was in their personal uniqueness. There have always been controversies and scandals around these guys. After publishing his book four years ago, Lam said: “I say what I think and see. That's all." And Lam saw how Michael Ballack breaks down on David Odonkore(so that after this the poor guy’s career went into the trash can), the same Ballack and Thorsten Frings put pressure on Yogi Leva, and instead of training in the national team Rudy Voller players lazily played video games. The team of Breitner's time also had fun as best they could: instead of video games there was alcohol and girls, and instead of the informer Philipp Lahm, there was an informer Tony Schumacher, another famous German akyn.
Lahm eventually followed the path of Breitner, who also found a place in midfield. First there was the dilemma “Is Lam a left back or a right back?”, which Yogi Löw put an uncertain end to. However, in the last year, another dilemma has arisen - “Is Lahm a right-back or a defensive midfielder?”
The Bundestrainer froze in even greater indecision, but the injury of the football player, who was not even supposed to go to the World Cup, Shkodrana Mustafi, helped the German national team - Fipsi returned to the right edge of defense. Everyone thought that Lahm was going from the bottom up - from defense to midfield, but in fact he was returning to the top, because in his childhood Philip Lahm was used in the position of the classic “ten”.
He always says what he thinks and does what he thinks is right. He was always part of the group of players who approved bonuses from the management for the team’s victories, but money was not of great importance to him. It was he who told Michael Ballack that after his injury he could no longer count on the captain’s armband; it was he who wrote funny stories about him on humorous sites - like the one where Lam allegedly spent his entire adult life in a group of mafioso rockers. If he had been born in Russia, he would certainly have become Igor Denisov. But he was born in Munich.
Well, the fact that his departure was unexpected... Listen, in four years he will be 34, this is a respectable age for both a full-back and a defensive player. Yes, there will be a European Championship, but this tournament is slowly depreciating in value - if only because soon only the teams of Gibraltar, Malta and San Marino will not be able to get to it ( Faroe Islands in the play-offs they will win against Liechtenstein). Reasoning wisely (and Lam clearly did not make the decision during a ten-hour flight from Rio to Berlin), the captain of the German national team decided that enough was enough for him. He didn’t want to wait for the conditional Marco Reus to come up and say: “The bandage is now mine,” as he once did. He did what the whole of Germany had been raving about for the last eight years, ever since his goal against Costa Rica. He brought the World Cup to the Brandenburg Gate.
