Full name : Michael Ballack
Date of birth : 26 September 1976
Place of birth : Görlitz, East Germany
Height : 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club Bayer Leverkusen
Number 13
Youth career
1983–1995 Chemnitzer FC
Senior career*
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC II
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC
1997–1999 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1999–2002 Bayer Leverkusen
2002–2006 Bayern Munich
2006–2010 Chelsea
2010– Bayer Leverkusen
National team‡
1996–1998 Germany U21
1999– Germany
Club career
Chemnitzer FC
Michael Ballack's parents sent him to train with the side as shortly as he was seven years old. He subsequent shifted on to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed Chemnitzer FC in 1990). His dad had played second-division football himself in Germany. Unusual for his early age was Ballack's skill to exert both feet with identical authority.
In 1995, Ballack earned his first businessman contract, thank you to his plays in the role of interior midfielder. He was dubbed the "Little Kaiser", in reference to Franz Beckenbauer, whoever was nicknamed "Der Kaiser". His businessman debut came on 4 August 1995, on the first day of the fresh 2. Bundesliga season. Chemnitz no where the game 2–1, against VfB Leipzig.
At the end of the season, during which Ballack prepared fifteen arrivals, Chemnitz were relegated to the multi-tiered, regional third division. On 26 March 1996, Ballack prepared his debut for Germany's Under-21 side.
The chasing season, Ballack became a regular first-team actor as Chemnitz missed out on an realtime return to the Bundesliga. He did not miss a game and scored ten targets for the "Sky Blues". It was not enough for Chemnitz to be promoted, but in the summer of 1997, bus Otto Rehhagel of just-promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern gestured Ballack at their return to lid flight football.
Kaiserslautern
It was during the seventh game of the 1997–98 season, away to Karlsruhe, that Rehhagel decided to pitch Ballack into the Bundesliga for the first time, whether merely for the final five minutes of the encounter. On 28 March 1998, Ballack prepared his first-team debut against Bayer Leverkusen.
Ballack prepared 16 arrivals for his fresh team during the season as the club became the first-ever newly promoted team to elevator the league title. In the chasing season, Ballack became both a regular (he prepared thirty arrivals, scoring four goals) and one of the side's spearheading players. Kaiserslautern arrived the quarter finals of the Champions League, but were knocked out via Bayern Munich.
On 1 July 1999, Ballack shifted to Bayer Leverkusen at the age of 22, for a transfer payment of €4.1 million.
Bayer Leverkusen
It was at Bayer Leverkusen that Ballack prepared his breakthrough. Coaches Christoph Daum and Klaus Toppmöller given him an assailing role in the midfield. Ballack was instrumental to the success of Leverkusen, scoring 27 targets in the league and nine in Europe across the course of his three seasons at the BayArena.
In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen lacked merely a draw against minnows Unterhaching to win the name, but an possess target via Ballack facilitated send the team to a crushing 0–2 defeat, whereas Bayern Munich clinched the name with a 3–1 victory across Werder Bremen. 2002 was a season of disappointment for Bayer Leverkusen. In the German Bundesliga, the team surrendered a five point lead at the lid of the desk across the final three sport of the season to ending second behind Borussia Dortmund, no where the UEFA Champions League final 2–1 to Real Madrid, and no where the German Cup final 4–2 to Schalke 04. These three runner-up completes were dubbed a "Treble Horror".
Ballack and Leverkusen teammates Bernd Schneider, Carsten Ramelow, and Oliver Neuville were even defeated finalists with Germany in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, however Ballack was suspended for the final itself. Ballack done with 17 league targets, and his performance across the season led to him being voted into the UEFA.com users' Team of 2002 as well being dubbed German Footballer of the Year.
Bayern Munich
Ballack playing for Bayern Munich
In spite of Real Madrid's hobby, Ballack decided to clue with Bayern Munich in a €12.9 million sell in 2002 afterwards his grand plays in the World Cup. Bayern won the Bundesliga in his first season with 75 points, they also won the German Cup. In his second season however, Bayern no where their Bundesliga crown to Werder Bremen along with the cup.
In his third season with the Bavarians, Ballack relished success in the 2004–05 season as Bayern Munich ended another double. New bus Felix Magath stated he was the merely automatic starter in their midfield.[3] In four seasons at Bayern, Ballack won three Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal doubles and scored 47 targets in 135 matches. Between 1998 and 2005, Ballack notched upward 61 targets in his servant league.
However, Ballack's critics recorded his frequent "choking" in significant Champions League matches. This resulted in frank public criticism from club overall administrator Uli Hoeneß, communications director Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and club president Franz Beckenbauer, all prior Bayern players. Beckenbauer subsequent went as far as to blame Ballack of "saving his strength" for prospective employers afterwards Ballack turned in an average performance in the 2006 DFB Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Chelsea
Ballack matched to attend Chelsea on a adrift transfer on 15 May 2006.[5] During his final season as a Bayern actor there were rumours of hobby from Manchester United, Real Madrid, Internazionale and A.C. Milan,[6] but Ballack instead chose to go to Stamford Bridge. Shortly afterwards arriving at Chelsea, Ballack stated that he hoped to end his career at Chelsea.
Ballack with Chelsea
Ballack's debut for Chelsea came on 31 July 2006, during a practice suit at UCLA's intramural football pitch. Chelsea handed him to the media the chasing day where the club also gave him his fancied figure 13 shirt, worn during his career. Upon doing so, William Gallas, whoever formerly wore the figure 13 shirt for Chelsea, was given the figure three shirt. This shift composed animosity between Gallas and the club as Gallas sensed that he was underappreciated. On 27 August 2006, Ballack earned his English League debut for Chelsea against Blackburn Rovers, and prepared his UEFA Champions League debut for Chelsea against Werder Bremen on 12 September 2006.
Ballack scored his first target for Chelsea in the subsequent suit against Werder Bremen. He received his first straight red card of his career in Chelsea's 1–0 win across Liverpool on 17 September 2006, afterwards being judged to have stamped on Mohamed Sissoko's leg. Ballack scored his first target in the English League on 21 October 2006 against Portsmouth at home with a header. His first FA Cup target came in the 109th tiny in a suit against Blackburn Rovers on 15 April 2007. This target resulted in Chelsea underway into the FA Cup final. He scored eight targets in all contests for the club in the 2006–07 season, encompassing a free-kick against Everton at Goodison Park, as well as a half-volley against F.C. Porto which sent Chelsea through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Throughout his first season at Chelsea, Ballack was criticised for his lethargic plays – for playing as though he had "a massive cigar in his mouth".
On 29 April 2007, Chelsea discharged a pronouncement on their official website, informing fans that Ballack had undergone ankle medicine in Munich. As a effect of the medicine, Ballack did not play in the FA Cup Final against Manchester United, which Chelsea won 1–0 through Didier Drogba's extra time goal. This was Ballack's second trophy this season, his first being the League Cup, the final of which he started.
Despite persistent rumours in the summer 2007 transfer window, Ballack refused that he hoped to retire and no such shift materialised. Chelsea retired Ballack out of their Champions League squad for the 2007–08 team degree as they realised that his injury would prevent him from playing any useful fraction and favourite to choose the fully fit Steve Sidwell. The German global had an ankle mission in the summer and Chelsea could not take the threat of him not regaining full fitness ago the end of the Group Stage. Thus, Ballack could not play in the Champions League ago the knockout phases originated in February. The club was merely able to choose 23 out of a possible 25 players for their Champions League squad due to the fresh UEFA laws on 'association-trained players' and 'club-trained players'. Due to this law, Chelsea were also unable to choose young actor Scott Sinclair and could merely pick 23 players as their merely 'club-trained player' was John Terry. For this purpose, it was deemed unwise to gamble on Ballack being fit at several point.[
Ballack was absent for eight months with an ankle injury, during which he dreaded that his football career might be in danger of ending as he was fetching older. He prepared his return to the side in Chelsea's 2–0 League Cup win across Liverpool on 19 December 2007. Ballack scored an contribute late in the game to striker Andriy Shevchenko. On 26 December 2007, Ballack prepared his league return in a thrilling game against Aston Villa which ended 4–4. He came on for Frank Lampard in the 26th tiny afterwards the latter had picked upward a thigh injury. In first-half stoppage time, he won a punishment afterwards being brought down in the box via Zat Knight, which Andriy Shevchenko converted. In the 88th tiny, with the score tied at 3–3, Ballack stepped upward to take a free-kick, which he buried into the bottom retired corner of the target, but the suit ended in a 4–4 draw.
Ballack playing against Tottenham Hotpsur.
Ballack captained the Chelsea team in the absence of captain John Terry and vice captain Frank Lampard in a 2–1 win across Newcastle United on 29 December 2007. Ballack thereafter played his 50th game in a Chelsea shirt in a 2–1 win against Fulham in which he scored the winning target for Chelsea. He also scored the merely target that won the suit for Chelsea against Reading to continue the blues' winning streak to a record of nine. And, on 5 March 2007, he scored again, this time against Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 in a 3–0 win. He scored the winning target in the 2–0 win in the 2nd leg of the Quarter-Finals against Fenerbahçe, a victory that roped Chelsea a position in the Semi-Finals.
Ballack lasted to score crucial targets and, on 26 April 2008, he scored a header and a punishment to give Chelsea a 2–1 win across Manchester United. He was dubbed Man of The Match for his performance. It brought the pair teams horizontal in the race for the Premier League name merely pair matchdays ago the end of the season.
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