To this day, I've got the images from the world cup final in 2014 stuck in my head. Schweinsteiger, with blood running down his cheek, getting up again and again every single time to deny Argentina any chance in the final. Yes, it was Götze who shot the winning goal, but to this day, I hold the opinion that the one who enabled us to win was Schweinsteiger - what he did in that game absolutely cemented him as a legend to me.
This was the match that made me fall in love with the beautiful game. Schweinsteiger was in complete control and I’m not sure I’ve seen such an amazing (non goal scoring) performance since.
i agree. as a german myself and a bayern munich fan i loved him so much. most fans dont really understand some things: players cant always show up making an incisive pass, score a goal, make an important tackle, teams dont function just around one. but with schweinsteiger you always knew that he would leave his heart on the pitch, always trying. and he he had everything you want from a midfielder ( and no he wasnt even that slow haha ): great read of the game, great read of situations, anticipation, strength in physical battles, a great pass and always a good feeling when he could push up to support attacks. he was just the ultimate control. and its scary when you consider that for all his youth and most of his professional career he didnt even play as a midfielder as he later did, he was actually always a winger / striker. so to see him on a level with iniesta, xavi and the likes, to me he was actually better then them because he offered you more, is scary to think off what couldve been if he had even more time developing. schweinsteiger was consistency, up and down the pitch .. and i wish we still had him .. but im thankful for what he did for us. even for the players around him seeing someone fight his ass off inspires them too. he is a legend of the game, whoever doubts that is clueless. fußballgott schweini.
Schweinsteiger wasn't slow, especially when he was younger. He was a winger and AM before Van Gaal converted him to a DM. He got a lot of injuries and was often rushed back from injury too soon, so this took a toll on his fitness. But he didn't lack pace in his youth. I mean, he wasn't Mbappe fast, but he wasn't a slowpoke either lol.
I remember him from the 06 WC and 08 Euros and I agree he was more of a winger in 06 and attacking mid in 08.. he didn't settle in as a central mid until the 2010s ...
He was extremely slow, especially for his position as he started out as a winger. He made up for it with technique and skill though and his move to central midfield transformed his career.
bayern team from early 2010's was so underappreciated going to 3 ucl finals yet only winning once didn't do justice to how strong their depth was overall
Not going to lie but people forget that Schweinsteiger wasn't slow at all; he was a wide midfielder and winger with electric pace and skills until Robben and Ribéry arrived in Bayern. The position he ran at Bayern didn't require pace, rather, positioning and great anticipation due to lovely match reading. Plus, his passing range was always exceptional even as a young winger. Underrated and effective like most German players in history.
Yeah, this video is a bit daft and misleading. First of all, Schweinsteiger was no Usain bolt, but he could run. And secondly, pace has never been that important for midfield players. Even in the box to box era, stamina was more important than pace. So, Schweinsteiger not having 'pace' isn't some big setback like the video is implying
Van Gaal was the genius who put Schweinsteiger from the RW to CDM. And put also Robben from LW to RW. He changed the career of both so much. And without van Gaal Bayern would have sold Müller to some other Bundesliga Club
It wasn't van Gaal. Heynckes took over for 5 games after Klinsmann got fired to finish the season. He played Schweinsteiger as a CDM which worked brilliantly. Van Gaal simply copied it.
@@sehu1291 Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about mate. Robben played as a RW a lot for Real Madrid. I mean, in his first season there they had Robinho on the left so no way Robben was going to play there. Robben played as a LW at times for Chelsea and Holland, but he played mainly as a RW at Madrid. The only that changed for Robben at Bayern from Madrid was that he was finally healthy for an extended period and could show his quality.
@@chriskaminski-qt6pl bullshit Schweinsteiger himself said van gaal Was the one who put him in the CM. Heynckes had no other options and a completely different team. The only goal was to secured the CL qualification
He is my favorite footballer. He is the reason why I watch. And as a German national team fan, i really miss his presence on the pitch. You're absolutely right, Germany has been lost since he retired from the national team in 2016.
After being paired with Lukas Podolski as the new German boygroup building up to the 2006 world cup (the infamous Poldi and Schweini as known from Söhnke Wortmann's documentary), it seemed to me that Schweinsteiger (or rather both of them) was in real danger of becoming another of these early-priming wonderkids. Both of them played in offensive positions, Podolski as a striker/winger, Schweinsteiger as a attacking midfielder/winger, and it would have been easy for them never to live up to the hype that always builds around offensive prospects. Two factors that turned around Schweinsteiger's career in my view: 1. He was red-carded in the second group match during the 2008 Euros for a hot-headed episode of unsportsmanlike conduct, which probably made him rethink the seriousness of his approach to the game (that is, some people probably sat him down for a chat). 2. The injury of Michael Ballack right before the 2010 world cup, which forced Joachim Löw to switch up his line-up. This forced players like Lahm, Schweinsteiger and, due to the passing of Robert Enke and the injury of Rene Adler, Manuel Neuer to take the next, and in Schweinsteiger's case, defining step to footballing maturity, since he was the one to take up Ballack's more central, defensive role on the pitch, while Lahm took over as captain. A challenge both of them definitely rose up to. And with all of Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Neuer and also Müller playing together both at Bayern and for Germany for years, they were able to form a truly unique group of team leaders that undisputably linked up well as players and personalities. Also, of course Schweinsteiger was lucky to learn from managers like Hitzfeld, Magath, Heynckes, van Gaal, Guardiola and Löw.
Van Gaal was the one who place Schweinsteiger 2009/2010 in CDM. And also Robben from LW to RW. And put Müller in the starting line up. Without van Gall Schweinsteiger, Robben and Müller wouldn’t have the careers they had. Müller would have probably transfered to an other club (he was only 19) Müller said till this day van Gaal was his favourite coach. And Schweinsteiger went to United because van Gaal was coach (and they were his favourite club in England). But van Gaal got fired and Mourinho benched him
The guy is the embodiment of all the traits one would think of when imagining a good German footballer. Both fc Bayern and the DFB squad played outstanding football when Schweinsteiger was the respective deep playmaker of each team. That alone proofs his genius. Don’t always have to be flashy to be great.
The decline was in the World Cup because he had a an injury and chose to play instead of heal it if he had who knows maybe he would’ve actually been a legend
@@cadian122The decline started before the World Cup when he got regularly injured & he didn't keep up proper fitness & leg-knee training. World Cup didn't start the decline but sank him, Torres realised his fitness issue only after coming back to Atletico but was already old. In Chelsea Torres made the same dribbling & runs like he did in Liverpool (if u watched him) but he had lost his muscle memory & muscle-nerve co-ordination to accurately time & power his shots. This cost him a lot as he lost touch & thus lost confidence which made it even worse. Else Torres was higher than Drogba,Robben, Eto'o bcz he destroyed the same FC Barcelona & Real when he was teen in Atletico
Most underrated midfield legend in the current day, at his prime Schweinsteiger in his prime was giving Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets nightmares in the midfield.
@@glencurtis6052 He was as he is rarely spoken about while you see people exalting Xabi, Xavi, Gerrard, Lampard, Iniesta, Ozil, Modric etc while Schweinsteiger is ahead of some here. Schweinsteiger & Cesc Fabregas are criminally underrated despite achieving everything & even having better records than above mentioned people.
Yes Bastian and Javi Martinez dominate them. 7-0 on aggregate doesn't lie. The only other midfielders who could give them trouble was perhaps Daniele De Rossi, unfortunately they could only meet on international stage.
@@gregoriuspascalis500 Yes they do but then they can't be equated to Iniesta type defenders who are there to engage & disengage lines to open up attacks. Here Iniesta & David Silva types operate differently
The man was my role model in highschool. My game started maturing quickly because i really trued copying his style. Always covering the midfield, playing box to box and those long diagonal passes. Aggressive tackles.
I disagree with the notion that Basti had no pace, especially since my first memories are of him as a winger scoring screamers with his blonde Mohawk. But I agree agree with the sentiment of the video that it was his technique and IQ that set him apart. One of my favorite players. Thank you!
The farewell match of Bastian Schweinsteiger, a Bayern Munich player, was in the stadium of Borussia Mönchengladbach, a rival club of Bayern Munich from the old times and still of today regarding individual matches. Despite that, the audience chanted "Fussballgott" (football god) and Schweinsteiger went into tears. I've never heard nything like that in a farewell match, it was among the most emotional moments in sports for me. Schweinsteiger was at the heart of the 2014 final, embodying blood, sweat and tears, literally. I'm reluctant with words like hero or legend, but he was an example. Without him (and a couple of others), we would not have won. For me he is among the most iconic German players of all time.
It`s crazy how underrated some of the players of these generation are. Lahm & Schweinsteiger and even Kroos. All of them were great with the ball, great understanding of the game, great passing, insane tackling skills and super hard to beat 1vs1. Schweinsteiger was needed in that 2014 team. Özil and Kroos were not that great in their defense, and Kehdira lacked a bit the positioning that Schweinsteiger had. It was an overall great team.
No one who knows about him underrates the magic Dwarf . Phillip Lahm redefined his native position, and routinely was switched to midfield, occasionally even attacking Winger . One of the most intelligent, likely the most versatile football player ever .
Dont know about Lahm. He is mostly considered as a solid top5 fullback of all-times. Considering both defending and attacking its hard to place anyone ahead of Lahm.
Grew up with a poster of him above my bed. He's been my favorite player since I got him in a panini pack back in '06, saw the spiky hair and I just decided that this guy was gunna be my favorite player. He did not disappoint. Freaking beast. Top 30 player of all time for me. A true warrior. I've been trying to play like him ever since I first saw him in the 2006 world cup.
Im born 1987, in my lifetime i have not seen a player besides Pirlo and Beckham who embraced the role of a captain and leader more than Schweinsteiger...for me he is the best midfielder i have witnessed yet. Greetings from Germany
Being from Chicago, it was a blessing we got him in the MLS. He brought our team to the playoffs and unfortunately, the rest of the team couldn't pick up the weight when it came to the important matches then in his final years the rest of the team became worse, and poor management of his position. Top tier player!
@@johnwick7583 1. Germany won the World Cup in 2014 2. It’s a joke, in a press conference schweinsteiger did when he joined MLS, one of the reporters who clearly didn’t know anything about the sport said “with this signing, do you think Chicago will be able to win the World Cup now?”
No Pace lol. I mean, he didn't have Mbappe/Robben etc pace, but he was quick, especially over short distances. I feel like his probably mostly underrated due to his time at United (where he was also to be fair, slow because he just didn't seem super fit, also didn't see him in MLS so it possible that maybe he had lost his acceleration by that point because he was definately slow at United).
Bastian has passion. He played with everything he had for both his team and his club. Got back up again and again during the World Cup even when injured and played a huge role in winning the cup. Absolute underappreciated legend
His short distance acceleration really set him apart and let him close gaps very, very quickly despite his lack of top end speed. One of the smartest decisions Germany and Bayern made was starting him out wide before shifting him to the middle because it really helped his intelligence and reading of the game. A true general.
Great video! :) I think the underappretiation stems from the fact, that his 'prime' was rather short He switched position from winger to CM only in 2010, when van Gaal initiated it. He wasn't a bad winger, but the position in central midfield just was way more fitting to him. And unfortunately he got unlucky with injuries and the reduction in athletic skills coming with age rather early already around 2015 So he wasn't a player dominating for 15 years from 20 to 35 like Iniesta or Xavi But his prime years were exceptionally successful: 3 champions league finals in 2010, 2012 and 2013 Winning the champions league in 2013 Being a semi-finalist at the WC 2010 and at the Euros in 2012 and then winning the WC in 2014 And he was imo the most important player for Bayern and Germany over this timeframe
The irony in this was that I was looking at midfielders that played for Bayern as there midfield right now is not working. Then I thought, I know Bastian was good at shooting and passing but I don’t really know that much about him in general. Good video
Well, I’d say that he was way more intelligent than the Terminator. If the Terminator had Schweinsteigers footballing iq then John Connor would had no chance. There are very few players who know how to be in the exact right spot at the exact right time, but Bastian was always there. Especially in defense.
I remember that controversy when he stopped prime Rooney in an important game with a foul from behind and the British press reacted in a strong way. But the point is that it was an intelligent stop, which earned him a yellow card.
I always felt he was combination of Xavi Alonso & Sergio Bisquets making him switch continuously from being defensive to attacking to defensive etc midfielder
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The pictures of young Schweinsteiger as a ski athlete show him with young Felix Neureuther, who went on to become a World Champion and a serial winner of FIS World Cup races. When they were young and competing at youth level, Schweinsteiger was his strongest competition and the two have remained close mates ever since. So it is not an exaggeration to assume that if he had not turned to Football, Schweinsteiger may very well have become a World Class skier.
Seems like some major German officials need to go and give a talk to Paris Brunner now too. The kid’s a superstar talent but the problem is he knows it and makes trouble too much.
Schweinsteiger was probably the most important player for Germany and Bayern back then. He gave the entire squads stability and every time he was missing, the teams played a lot worse without him. Without him Germany wouldnt have won the World Cup.
My favorite German player!! That finish against Turkey at Euro 2008 was crisp. I really got see him eMsawawa in 2010 WC when Joachim Loew left out Ballack and Basti is going to take over🎉🎉
Schweinsteiger was an average winger but when LVG converted him into a midfielder he was class for Germany and Bayern Munich. I can remember being very happy we signed Schweinsteiger in 2015 for a bargain fee at the time but the reason why Bayern Munich were willing to sell him because he was passed his best when he joined Manchester United. At Manchester United he looked way off and showed he was done at elite level. Schweinsteiger will no doubt be one of the best midfielders of his generation for Bayern Munich and Germany.
LVG didn't converted him to midfield since all his youth at bayern Schweinsteiger never was a winger but a CM. When he turned pro they put him on the wing to give him some playtime due to the fact that at least he was able to play that position.
@@MrIkOgNiTo to give him playtime? Wtf. He played euro 2004, WC 2006 and Euro 2008 on the Wing. He played from 2003 - 2009 at Bayern and Germany as a winger. And from 2009 - 2015 as a CM for Bayern. So it was 50/50 at Bayern
@@sehu1291 Yes to give him playtime! The center midfield from 2003-2009 in the german national team and bayern munich was occupied by Frings, Ballack, van Bommel and Ze roberto. Schweinsteiger played as a winger for the same plain simple reason Jerome Boateng played right back during his first couple of seasons at Hamburg Manchester and Bayern and the german national team. The center back position was occupied by veterans so he played right back just because he was able to play right back but that doesn't mean he was later converted into a center back because he always was a center back. Same situation for Schweinsteiger he played on the wing out of necessity not because of that he actually was a winger.
@@MrIkOgNiTo bro guys like Ottl played there. If anyone had knewed how good Schweinsteiger would have been in the CDM they wouldn't wait until he was 25 to put him in this Position and let Ottl play or bought an 35 year old ze Roberto for one or two seasons. And in the nationalteam he switched at the exact same time the position because everyone saw that schweinsteiger was wordclass in the CM. He didn't even play at CM when 2 players were injured at this position. No one was interested where he played in the youth. It was common knowledge that schweinsteiger was a winger. Van Gaal was the one who had the idea to put him in the CM. I don't know where you have heard this or habe you a bad memory? How old are you? Btw Ballack played OM at bayern and than at WC 2006 and at Chelsea CM.
I also want to stress that Schweinsteiger made an INSANE Jump in Leadership after losing the UCL Final against Chelsea. You see that after losing that final and having general weak mentality (not looking at the shootout directly and missing the last one), he became a leader. And that mentality lead Bayern to win the ucl and Germany to win World Cup.
I'm a huge Schwinsteiger fan. One interesting comparison I made was with another player who has a very similar set of basic skills, but using them completely different. Pirlo. never saw someone that slow being that incredibly dominant on the offense. yet, they both share a lot of similarities. Both are slow on and off the ball (I know, Schweinsteiger wasn't always slow, but in his prime days, his style was slow in comparison), both have their strengths in passing, shooting, timing and strategic understanding. Yet, they play so incredible different. Both of them are amazing, but I would never say they play similarly just because they were both on the slower side.
Schweinsteiger wasn't slow at all befor age effeced on him. He even started his career as a winger and did pretty well there. In his prime he easily had 70+ pace and I'm absolutely sure he had this rating in FIFA at some point too.
I'm happy that there is more recognition for this player. I've always thought he was the maestro of the german players and Bayern. Am I the only one here that has Schweinsteiger Jerseys ? xD
I'm not a Bayern fan at all and I didn't used to like "Schweini". Since his three goals against Portugal in the game for third place in the 2006 World Cup, it has been my man.
Kinda funny that you could describe Philipp Lahm more or less in the exact same way, smart passer, disciplined, defensive minded and slow. Also wolrdcup 06 as their coming out party, game for third play was schweinsteigers masterpiece
I feel like theres some kind of legacy of a sturdy german DM that gets passed on.. from didi hamann to ballack, to schweini and hopefully kimmich will follow in his footsteps PS: if you think hes the slowest player you ever watched youve probably only seen him play in MLS
You have to go through hell to become a great. I think the defeats made him what he is. The 2012 Champions League final was hell for him. But he got back up and won the Champions League in 2013 and the WC in 2014 with an incredible mental performance. For me personally, his performance in the 2014 final will always go down as one of the best fighting performances of all time. You just couldn't break this man and his will in this game. And the Argentinians tried it.
When I lived back home in Austria Schweinsteiger was the perfect embodiment of what we hated and admired about German footballers. To me there is one word to sum up his character, at least on the pitch: DETERMINATION
To me i always thought of Bastion as literally the peak of a german player. Definitely in my top 5 all time midfielders. And for some reason when i say that people think im crazy but you really dont understand how fundemental someone like that is until you see them leave and watch how everything just seems to fall short of all a sudden like in barca with busquets. But with germany all of a sudden they always seem to fall asleep in between the backline and the midfield. Sometimes they lose the ball. And even tho they have great players still. Something always seems to be missing and i honestly think its someone like him. These kinds of players are soo imensñy crucial to a team but a lot of times they are sooo under valued. Even before buesquets i remember in Barca when we had yaya toure. And alot of people wanted him gone because he wasnt flashy and he didnt really have the nicest dribbling so to speak or silky smooth like iniestas dribbling was. But he was the guy that shut shit down and provided you back up when your defence was being pressed when on the ball. And even tho we had busquets even busquets fell short sometimes because he lacked some of that physicality that Bastion had.
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To this day, I've got the images from the world cup final in 2014 stuck in my head. Schweinsteiger, with blood running down his cheek, getting up again and again every single time to deny Argentina any chance in the final. Yes, it was Götze who shot the winning goal, but to this day, I hold the opinion that the one who enabled us to win was Schweinsteiger - what he did in that game absolutely cemented him as a legend to me.
He truly activated Terminator mode
Imagine having the performance of your already stellar career in a world cup final.
This was the match that made me fall in love with the beautiful game. Schweinsteiger was in complete control and I’m not sure I’ve seen such an amazing (non goal scoring) performance since.
The match of his life. He gave everything for this trophy. In Germany most people said he won us the final not Götze
i agree. as a german myself and a bayern munich fan i loved him so much. most fans dont really understand some things: players cant always show up making an incisive pass, score a goal, make an important tackle, teams dont function just around one. but with schweinsteiger you always knew that he would leave his heart on the pitch, always trying. and he he had everything you want from a midfielder ( and no he wasnt even that slow haha ): great read of the game, great read of situations, anticipation, strength in physical battles, a great pass and always a good feeling when he could push up to support attacks. he was just the ultimate control. and its scary when you consider that for all his youth and most of his professional career he didnt even play as a midfielder as he later did, he was actually always a winger / striker. so to see him on a level with iniesta, xavi and the likes, to me he was actually better then them because he offered you more, is scary to think off what couldve been if he had even more time developing. schweinsteiger was consistency, up and down the pitch .. and i wish we still had him .. but im thankful for what he did for us. even for the players around him seeing someone fight his ass off inspires them too.
he is a legend of the game, whoever doubts that is clueless. fußballgott schweini.
His kick off glitch irl was so broken for bayern Munich his long passes Robben were so underrated.
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That's dope
Schweinsteiger wasn't slow, especially when he was younger. He was a winger and AM before Van Gaal converted him to a DM.
He got a lot of injuries and was often rushed back from injury too soon, so this took a toll on his fitness. But he didn't lack pace in his youth. I mean, he wasn't Mbappe fast, but he wasn't a slowpoke either lol.
yeah I remember him in world cup 2006..he sure was fairly quick
Otherwise he wouldn't have started as a winger
I remember him from the 06 WC and 08 Euros and I agree he was more of a winger in 06 and attacking mid in 08.. he didn't settle in as a central mid until the 2010s ...
Thats right, he wasent slow at all.
He was extremely slow, especially for his position as he started out as a winger. He made up for it with technique and skill though and his move to central midfield transformed his career.
bayern team from early 2010's was so underappreciated going to 3 ucl finals yet only winning once didn't do justice to how strong their depth was overall
yeah they went up agaisnt prime barcelona
@@johnwick7583 They lost the final against Inter Milan and Chelsea. Not Barcelona
@@yrmom-kv3scthink he meant they beat barcelona
And losing 3 times to VAReal Madrid
@@bloodysorcerer it’s Vardrid
Not going to lie but people forget that Schweinsteiger wasn't slow at all; he was a wide midfielder and winger with electric pace and skills until Robben and Ribéry arrived in Bayern.
The position he ran at Bayern didn't require pace, rather, positioning and great anticipation due to lovely match reading. Plus, his passing range was always exceptional even as a young winger. Underrated and effective like most German players in history.
On point !
Yeah, this video is a bit daft and misleading.
First of all, Schweinsteiger was no Usain bolt, but he could run.
And secondly, pace has never been that important for midfield players. Even in the box to box era, stamina was more important than pace.
So, Schweinsteiger not having 'pace' isn't some big setback like the video is implying
I thought of exactly the same when I saw the title I said to myself wasn’t he a winger ?
Video title is for FIFA Players who have no clue about real footballers
I was going to say the same thing. He wasn't slow at all in his younger days.
Van Gaal was the genius who put Schweinsteiger from the RW to CDM. And put also Robben from LW to RW. He changed the career of both so much. And without van Gaal Bayern would have sold Müller to some other Bundesliga Club
Robben was definitely playing as a RW already before Van Gaal mate.
@@brianduru3753 yeah but mostly on LW. He also hadn't show his signature move not more than five times before he went to bayern
It wasn't van Gaal. Heynckes took over for 5 games after Klinsmann got fired to finish the season. He played Schweinsteiger as a CDM which worked brilliantly. Van Gaal simply copied it.
@@sehu1291 Yeah, you don't know what you're talking about mate.
Robben played as a RW a lot for Real Madrid. I mean, in his first season there they had Robinho on the left so no way Robben was going to play there.
Robben played as a LW at times for Chelsea and Holland, but he played mainly as a RW at Madrid.
The only that changed for Robben at Bayern from Madrid was that he was finally healthy for an extended period and could show his quality.
@@chriskaminski-qt6pl bullshit Schweinsteiger himself said van gaal Was the one who put him in the CM. Heynckes had no other options and a completely different team. The only goal was to secured the CL qualification
He is my favorite footballer. He is the reason why I watch. And as a German national team fan, i really miss his presence on the pitch. You're absolutely right, Germany has been lost since he retired from the national team in 2016.
he and ozil not in german hurt german so bad.
And lahm boteng and hummels. Almost all at the same time
@@Apqueen868please don't forget Miro.
After being paired with Lukas Podolski as the new German boygroup building up to the 2006 world cup (the infamous Poldi and Schweini as known from Söhnke Wortmann's documentary), it seemed to me that Schweinsteiger (or rather both of them) was in real danger of becoming another of these early-priming wonderkids. Both of them played in offensive positions, Podolski as a striker/winger, Schweinsteiger as a attacking midfielder/winger, and it would have been easy for them never to live up to the hype that always builds around offensive prospects. Two factors that turned around Schweinsteiger's career in my view: 1. He was red-carded in the second group match during the 2008 Euros for a hot-headed episode of unsportsmanlike conduct, which probably made him rethink the seriousness of his approach to the game (that is, some people probably sat him down for a chat). 2. The injury of Michael Ballack right before the 2010 world cup, which forced Joachim Löw to switch up his line-up. This forced players like Lahm, Schweinsteiger and, due to the passing of Robert Enke and the injury of Rene Adler, Manuel Neuer to take the next, and in Schweinsteiger's case, defining step to footballing maturity, since he was the one to take up Ballack's more central, defensive role on the pitch, while Lahm took over as captain. A challenge both of them definitely rose up to. And with all of Schweinsteiger, Lahm, Neuer and also Müller playing together both at Bayern and for Germany for years, they were able to form a truly unique group of team leaders that undisputably linked up well as players and personalities. Also, of course Schweinsteiger was lucky to learn from managers like Hitzfeld, Magath, Heynckes, van Gaal, Guardiola and Löw.
Van Gaal was the one who place Schweinsteiger 2009/2010 in CDM. And also Robben from LW to RW. And put Müller in the starting line up. Without van Gall Schweinsteiger, Robben and Müller wouldn’t have the careers they had. Müller would have probably transfered to an other club (he was only 19) Müller said till this day van Gaal was his favourite coach. And Schweinsteiger went to United because van Gaal was coach (and they were his favourite club in England). But van Gaal got fired and Mourinho benched him
The guy is the embodiment of all the traits one would think of when imagining a good German footballer. Both fc Bayern and the DFB squad played outstanding football when Schweinsteiger was the respective deep playmaker of each team.
That alone proofs his genius. Don’t always have to be flashy to be great.
1:53 How was Fernando Torres placed higher than Eto'o, Schweinsteiger, and Robben?
After the World Cup, he was on a constant decline.
The decline actually started in the world cup lol... As a Spanish fan I agree with your statements
The decline was in the World Cup because he had a an injury and chose to play instead of heal it if he had who knows maybe he would’ve actually been a legend
@@cadian122The decline started before the World Cup when he got regularly injured & he didn't keep up proper fitness & leg-knee training.
World Cup didn't start the decline but sank him, Torres realised his fitness issue only after coming back to Atletico but was already old.
In Chelsea Torres made the same dribbling & runs like he did in Liverpool (if u watched him) but he had lost his muscle memory & muscle-nerve co-ordination to accurately time & power his shots. This cost him a lot as he lost touch & thus lost confidence which made it even worse.
Else Torres was higher than Drogba,Robben, Eto'o bcz he destroyed the same FC Barcelona & Real when he was teen in Atletico
Most underrated midfield legend in the current day, at his prime Schweinsteiger in his prime was giving Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets nightmares in the midfield.
People hyped that overated Ozil (who was only good at Real Madrid 2010-2011) & gave credit of Schweinsteiger to him.
He wasn't underrated
@@glencurtis6052 He was as he is rarely spoken about while you see people exalting Xabi, Xavi, Gerrard, Lampard, Iniesta, Ozil, Modric etc while Schweinsteiger is ahead of some here.
Schweinsteiger & Cesc Fabregas are criminally underrated despite achieving everything & even having better records than above mentioned people.
Yes Bastian and Javi Martinez dominate them. 7-0 on aggregate doesn't lie. The only other midfielders who could give them trouble was perhaps Daniele De Rossi, unfortunately they could only meet on international stage.
@@gregoriuspascalis500 Yes they do but then they can't be equated to Iniesta type defenders who are there to engage & disengage lines to open up attacks.
Here Iniesta & David Silva types operate differently
The man was my role model in highschool. My game started maturing quickly because i really trued copying his style. Always covering the midfield, playing box to box and those long diagonal passes. Aggressive tackles.
I disagree with the notion that Basti had no pace, especially since my first memories are of him as a winger scoring screamers with his blonde Mohawk.
But I agree agree with the sentiment of the video that it was his technique and IQ that set him apart.
One of my favorite players. Thank you!
The farewell match of Bastian Schweinsteiger, a Bayern Munich player, was in the stadium of Borussia Mönchengladbach, a rival club of Bayern Munich from the old times and still of today regarding individual matches. Despite that, the audience chanted "Fussballgott" (football god) and Schweinsteiger went into tears. I've never heard nything like that in a farewell match, it was among the most emotional moments in sports for me.
Schweinsteiger was at the heart of the 2014 final, embodying blood, sweat and tears, literally. I'm reluctant with words like hero or legend, but he was an example. Without him (and a couple of others), we would not have won. For me he is among the most iconic German players of all time.
It`s crazy how underrated some of the players of these generation are.
Lahm & Schweinsteiger and even Kroos.
All of them were great with the ball, great understanding of the game, great passing, insane tackling skills and super hard to beat 1vs1.
Schweinsteiger was needed in that 2014 team. Özil and Kroos were not that great in their defense, and Kehdira lacked a bit the positioning that Schweinsteiger had.
It was an overall great team.
No one who knows about him underrates the magic Dwarf . Phillip Lahm redefined his native position, and routinely was switched to midfield, occasionally even attacking Winger . One of the most intelligent, likely the most versatile football player ever .
@@headlessfool7050Correct! Lahm is the best right back of all time.
Dont know about Lahm. He is mostly considered as a solid top5 fullback of all-times. Considering both defending and attacking its hard to place anyone ahead of Lahm.
@@green_wire Nobody even know if he`s the best right or left back...
Grew up with a poster of him above my bed. He's been my favorite player since I got him in a panini pack back in '06, saw the spiky hair and I just decided that this guy was gunna be my favorite player. He did not disappoint. Freaking beast. Top 30 player of all time for me. A true warrior. I've been trying to play like him ever since I first saw him in the 2006 world cup.
Im born 1987, in my lifetime i have not seen a player besides Pirlo and Beckham who embraced the role of a captain and leader more than Schweinsteiger...for me he is the best midfielder i have witnessed yet. Greetings from Germany
Being from Chicago, it was a blessing we got him in the MLS. He brought our team to the playoffs and unfortunately, the rest of the team couldn't pick up the weight when it came to the important matches then in his final years the rest of the team became worse, and poor management of his position. Top tier player!
Sadly he couldn’t win you guys the World Cup
@@josthefang4594 how would he win the world cup if he played for germany lool
@@johnwick7583 1. Germany won the World Cup in 2014
2. It’s a joke, in a press conference schweinsteiger did when he joined MLS, one of the reporters who clearly didn’t know anything about the sport said “with this signing, do you think Chicago will be able to win the World Cup now?”
@@josthefang4594 yeah I knew he won the World Cup I didn’t realize it was a joke sorry . But dang that reporter is very incompetent
@@josthefang4594 maybe he meant the fifa club World Cup?
No Pace lol.
I mean, he didn't have Mbappe/Robben etc pace, but he was quick, especially over short distances.
I feel like his probably mostly underrated due to his time at United (where he was also to be fair, slow because he just didn't seem super fit, also didn't see him in MLS so it possible that maybe he had lost his acceleration by that point because he was definately slow at United).
Yeah, the video title is a bit daft tbh.
Bastian has passion. He played with everything he had for both his team and his club. Got back up again and again during the World Cup even when injured and played a huge role in winning the cup. Absolute underappreciated legend
Raymar should do thomas muller
yo raymar bro could u please bring back the og background sound please man don't ever change it, it makes me more attracted to the video
i was thinking the same thing
His short distance acceleration really set him apart and let him close gaps very, very quickly despite his lack of top end speed. One of the smartest decisions Germany and Bayern made was starting him out wide before shifting him to the middle because it really helped his intelligence and reading of the game. A true general.
He is a Germany National Team and Bayern Munich, and Chicago Fire Fc Legend 🏆
Chicago fire legend?
@@bido2782He’s one of our only good players ever
WC Final 2014 was his peak. A beast. A genius. He would have gave his life for Bayern and his country
Do you understand the ridicule of your statement ?
Great video! :)
I think the underappretiation stems from the fact, that his 'prime' was rather short
He switched position from winger to CM only in 2010, when van Gaal initiated it. He wasn't a bad winger, but the position in central midfield just was way more fitting to him.
And unfortunately he got unlucky with injuries and the reduction in athletic skills coming with age rather early already around 2015
So he wasn't a player dominating for 15 years from 20 to 35 like Iniesta or Xavi
But his prime years were exceptionally successful: 3 champions league finals in 2010, 2012 and 2013
Winning the champions league in 2013
Being a semi-finalist at the WC 2010 and at the Euros in 2012 and then winning the WC in 2014
And he was imo the most important player for Bayern and Germany over this timeframe
The irony in this was that I was looking at midfielders that played for Bayern as there midfield right now is not working. Then I thought, I know Bastian was good at shooting and passing but I don’t really know that much about him in general. Good video
Bastian
@@oldnp oh my gosh. I just realised thanks for the correct
In 2014 world cup, two german players with almost no pace dominanted.
Schweinsteiger
Kroos
Kroos is one of the most underrated players
Running fast on a straight line doesn't mean you are fast in playing football.
Schweinsteiger and the German national team of 2010 are reason why I love Fifa 2014 so much. This guy was a beast🙌🏽
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Wunderbar!
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Am I the only one who thought of Schweinsteiger as the Terminator?🤣 Leave a like if you enjoyed! 🙏 It's the best way to support the channel❤
Well, I’d say that he was way more intelligent than the Terminator. If the Terminator had Schweinsteigers footballing iq then John Connor would had no chance. There are very few players who know how to be in the exact right spot at the exact right time, but Bastian was always there. Especially in defense.
I remember that controversy when he stopped prime Rooney in an important game with a foul from behind and the British press reacted in a strong way. But the point is that it was an intelligent stop, which earned him a yellow card.
I always felt he was combination of Xavi Alonso & Sergio Bisquets making him switch continuously from being defensive to attacking to defensive etc midfielder
He was unstoppable.
i my hierarchy of their generation
1. Iniesta
2. Schweinsteiger
3.xavi/gerrard/lampard/pirlo and so one
he was mobbing prime barcelona all the time.
I am a german and xavi should be higher
Finally some respect for Schweinsteiger. He is still my goat :D Thank you for that^^
Bro Schweinsteiger wasnt that fast, But to call him slower than busquets is a blame. Back in the days he was a winger….
True
I loved how there are limitedless ways to play football. I always go for the tab mercent.
As a child my 7 was not Ronaldo it was Schweinsteiger
He has speed, i don´t understand that claim. You even have clips where he is running with the ball and passing opponents easily.
RaymarFootball I love your dedication to your work.
Your videos really give me insightful knowledge about players I never got to watch or pay attention too because I was too young. I appreciate it Keep doing you
God bless you 🙏💯
Been watching your channel for ages and I’m so hyped you did a vid on my all time favorite player, thanks for the Fußballgott video🤝🙌
Sadly he is an unsung legend that doesn’t get the recognition he deserves.
Thank you for a video that does his legacy justice.
Man, please use the old Background music and WTW. What is the name of that music
Great video, so well researched, presented with positive vibes.
Schweinsteiger! One of my world 11. He surely was the backbone and engine of his team! He should have retired at Bayern!
The pictures of young Schweinsteiger as a ski athlete show him with young Felix Neureuther, who went on to become a World Champion and a serial winner of FIS World Cup races. When they were young and competing at youth level, Schweinsteiger was his strongest competition and the two have remained close mates ever since. So it is not an exaggeration to assume that if he had not turned to Football, Schweinsteiger may very well have become a World Class skier.
bro was what jorginho always wanted to be (without pens)
Prime jorginho was great but schweinstiger was just .... exquisite 😮💨😩
Seems like some major German officials need to go and give a talk to Paris Brunner now too. The kid’s a superstar talent but the problem is he knows it and makes trouble too much.
The old background music was better than the new ones from the last videos. Your old videos had some special vibe with the old background music.
Schweinsteiger was probably the most important player for Germany and Bayern back then.
He gave the entire squads stability and every time he was missing, the teams played a lot worse without him.
Without him Germany wouldnt have won the World Cup.
Please make a video on Thomas Muller .
My favorite midfielder of all time. He controlled the pace of the game so well.
My favorite German player!! That finish against Turkey at Euro 2008 was crisp. I really got see him eMsawawa in 2010 WC when Joachim Loew left out Ballack and Basti is going to take over🎉🎉
Schweinsteiger was an average winger but when LVG converted him into a midfielder he was class for Germany and Bayern Munich. I can remember being very happy we signed Schweinsteiger in 2015 for a bargain fee at the time but the reason why Bayern Munich were willing to sell him because he was passed his best when he joined Manchester United. At Manchester United he looked way off and showed he was done at elite level. Schweinsteiger will no doubt be one of the best midfielders of his generation for Bayern Munich and Germany.
Problem in Manchester was that they fired his favourite coach van Gaal and put in Mourinho
LVG didn't converted him to midfield since all his youth at bayern Schweinsteiger never was a winger but a CM.
When he turned pro they put him on the wing to give him some playtime due to the fact that at least he was able to play that position.
@@MrIkOgNiTo to give him playtime? Wtf. He played euro 2004, WC 2006 and Euro 2008 on the Wing. He played from 2003 - 2009 at Bayern and Germany as a winger. And from 2009 - 2015 as a CM for Bayern. So it was 50/50 at Bayern
@@sehu1291 Yes to give him playtime!
The center midfield from 2003-2009 in the german national team and bayern munich was occupied by Frings, Ballack, van Bommel and Ze roberto.
Schweinsteiger played as a winger for the same plain simple reason Jerome Boateng played right back during his first couple of seasons at Hamburg Manchester and Bayern and the german national team.
The center back position was occupied by veterans so he played right back just because he was able to play right back but that doesn't mean he was later converted into a center back because he always was a center back.
Same situation for Schweinsteiger he played on the wing out of necessity not because of that he actually was a winger.
@@MrIkOgNiTo bro guys like Ottl played there. If anyone had knewed how good Schweinsteiger would have been in the CDM they wouldn't wait until he was 25 to put him in this Position and let Ottl play or bought an 35 year old ze Roberto for one or two seasons. And in the nationalteam he switched at the exact same time the position because everyone saw that schweinsteiger was wordclass in the CM. He didn't even play at CM when 2 players were injured at this position. No one was interested where he played in the youth. It was common knowledge that schweinsteiger was a winger. Van Gaal was the one who had the idea to put him in the CM. I don't know where you have heard this or habe you a bad memory? How old are you? Btw Ballack played OM at bayern and than at WC 2006 and at Chelsea CM.
I also want to stress that Schweinsteiger made an INSANE Jump in Leadership after losing the UCL Final against Chelsea. You see that after losing that final and having general weak mentality (not looking at the shootout directly and missing the last one), he became a leader. And that mentality lead Bayern to win the ucl and Germany to win World Cup.
I have followed your channel for a long time as a huge Chelsea fan I would love a frank lampard or a didier deigns video
Could you kindly make a video about Thiago Alcantara
Always good to wake up to a raymar video
Hope you can watch with your breakfast bro! 🥣
He pace is not that bad but he is slow
Great player and very underrated, certainly deserves to be in the conversation of the best central midfielders of the 2010s
Schweinsteiger was a beast
2012/2013 Schweinsteiger and Martinez were a beautiful to watch duo at the defensive midfield.
Him, Van Bommel, and Javi Martinez were my fav.
Bastian "Fussballgott" Schweinsteiger - my favorite midfielder ever.
can we get a video of david silva please he is a legend and very underrated
For a couple of seconds there i was in awe because of how smoothly that transitioned into an ad 🤯🤣
I'm a huge Schwinsteiger fan. One interesting comparison I made was with another player who has a very similar set of basic skills, but using them completely different.
Pirlo.
never saw someone that slow being that incredibly dominant on the offense. yet, they both share a lot of similarities. Both are slow on and off the ball (I know, Schweinsteiger wasn't always slow, but in his prime days, his style was slow in comparison), both have their strengths in passing, shooting, timing and strategic understanding. Yet, they play so incredible different. Both of them are amazing, but I would never say they play similarly just because they were both on the slower side.
Him, Alaba, and Müller are what got me into football
Schweinsteiger wasn't slow at all befor age effeced on him. He even started his career as a winger and did pretty well there. In his prime he easily had 70+ pace and I'm absolutely sure he had this rating in FIFA at some point too.
Jack of all traits on steroids. Perfect description. Just loved football, when he's still playing. Miss him so much.
He was the definition of a box to box midfielder and although he wasn't quick he had game speed and that's all you need.
could you please also do a video on how good was Allan Sherear,
what happened to Jack Wilshere
Again, great video Raymar! Since we're on the subject of solid midfielders, do one on Dirk Kuyt please😁
I met him in 2008 he is such a nice guy as well I love him he is a German hall of famer Unser Fußballgott
I'm happy that there is more recognition for this player. I've always thought he was the maestro of the german players and Bayern. Am I the only one here that has Schweinsteiger Jerseys ? xD
Huge Legend!
Hey Raymar can you make a video about Gërd Müller? He was the best finisher we have seen
Schweinsteiger and Owen Hargreaves
I sometimes forget Hargreaves spent quite a long time in Bayern.
His 2014 final ovetime performance was the single most passionate a footballer has produced in modern times.
Schweinsteiger is my all time favourite football player
He is the one and only Fußballgott!!❤
Bastian Shweinsteiger was my fav footballer back in 2015
Please make one about Philip lahm
I'm not a Bayern fan at all and I didn't used to like "Schweini". Since his three goals against Portugal in the game for third place in the 2006 World Cup, it has been my man.
Only one corrections, Lahm lifted first. He was captain. Basti lifted it like everyone else, but Lahm did first
Kinda funny that you could describe Philipp Lahm more or less in the exact same way, smart passer, disciplined, defensive minded and slow. Also wolrdcup 06 as their coming out party, game for third play was schweinsteigers masterpiece
Except neither Schweinsteiger nor Lahm were slow lol
“In the ground and on the air” 😂
1:57 that list is mental. No way Etoo is better than Robben or Bastian wth. that's insanity.
I feel like theres some kind of legacy of a sturdy german DM that gets passed on.. from didi hamann to ballack, to schweini and hopefully kimmich will follow in his footsteps
PS: if you think hes the slowest player you ever watched youve probably only seen him play in MLS
I remember as kid i love his power shots and his name and in every video game i put his name😂
Danke basti 😁🇩🇪🇩🇪
my favorite player always❤❤❤❤❤
miss u so much 😢😢
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You have to go through hell to become a great.
I think the defeats made him what he is.
The 2012 Champions League final was hell for him.
But he got back up and won the Champions League in 2013 and the WC in 2014 with an incredible mental performance.
For me personally, his performance in the 2014 final will always go down as one of the best fighting performances of all time.
You just couldn't break this man and his will in this game. And the Argentinians tried it.
When I lived back home in Austria Schweinsteiger was the perfect embodiment of what we hated and admired about German footballers. To me there is one word to sum up his character, at least on the pitch:
DETERMINATION
His name also sounds like a tank name. Jagdpanter, Panzerjäger, Schweinsteiger...
panzerjaeger lol. i died haha. Something between Pig Climber and Pig Rider when u translate it
@@2pacalypse93 i know but still sounds like a tank name xd
yeah it really does sound funny lol never saw that from this point of view. thank u @@nikdolp9
Raymar bring you olt music back
The Tiger, as we'd call was just phenomenal man..
No one calls him tiger
He wasnt that slow. He ran 31 km/h with ball at ManU were he already was above 31
To me i always thought of Bastion as literally the peak of a german player. Definitely in my top 5 all time midfielders. And for some reason when i say that people think im crazy but you really dont understand how fundemental someone like that is until you see them leave and watch how everything just seems to fall short of all a sudden like in barca with busquets.
But with germany all of a sudden they always seem to fall asleep in between the backline and the midfield. Sometimes they lose the ball. And even tho they have great players still. Something always seems to be missing and i honestly think its someone like him. These kinds of players are soo imensñy crucial to a team but a lot of times they are sooo under valued. Even before buesquets i remember in Barca when we had yaya toure. And alot of people wanted him gone because he wasnt flashy and he didnt really have the nicest dribbling so to speak or silky smooth like iniestas dribbling was. But he was the guy that shut shit down and provided you back up when your defence was being pressed when on the ball. And even tho we had busquets even busquets fell short sometimes because he lacked some of that physicality that Bastion had.
He was the reason Why Messi didn't win the 2014 WC