Mario Götze

Profile:

 Full name     Mario Götze

Date of birth     3 June 1992 (age 22)

Place of birth     Memmingen, Germany

Height     1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

Playing position     Midfielder

Club information

Current team      Bayern Munich
Number     19

 Personal life:

 Götze was born in Memmingen, Bavaria. His father Jürgen Götze, is a professor at the Dortmund University of Technology.His older brother Fabian currently plays for SpVgg Unterhaching, having left Dortmund's youth system in 2010. His younger brother Felix currently plays for Bayern's under-17 team. Götze has been in a relationship with German lingerie model, Ann-Kathrin Brömmel since 2012. Götze is a Christian.

 Style of play:

 Götze is capable of playing as either a left or right winger, attacking midfielder and also as a false 9.Götze is considered to be one of the best young players in the world, possessing speed, technique, dribbling skills, and play-making capabilities. At Dortmund under former manager Jürgen Klopp, Götze often played different roles in the team's 4–2–3–1 formation. Following the departure of fellow play-maker Shinji Kagawa in 2012, during the 2012–13 season, Klopp assigned Götze as central attacking midfielder. In Germany, Götze's talent is used by German coach Joachim Löw in the false 9 role.

German football legend Franz Beckenbauer described Götze as “German Messi" for his speed and style of play. In 2010, German Football Association's then technical director Matthias Sammer described Götze as "one of the best talents Germany has ever had.

2014 World cup :

 He was named in the starting line-up against Portugal in the team's opening match, winning the penalty kick for Germany's opening goal on his FIFA World Cup debut. In the team's second match, he scored the opening goal and was named the Man of the Match in a 2–2 draw with Ghana. Götze played just 14 minutes in 0–1 win against the United States,[58] half of the Round of 16 win against Algeria[59] and seven minutes in their Quarterfinal 0–1 win against France. The fact that the German coach Joachim Löw brought on Julian Draxler for his first minutes of the World Cup in Germany's Semi-final 7–1 hammering of Brazil, keeping Götze benched throughout, perhaps was a wake-up call for him.

In the World Cup final against Argentina, Löw substituted 36-year-old Miroslav Klose after 88 minutes with Götze and told him "Show the world you are better than Messi and can decide the World Cup". Götze scored the only goal of the match in the 113th minute, controlling André Schürrle's cross on his chest before volleying the ball into the net, giving Germany their fourth World Cup. He became the first substitute to score a World Cup winning goal, and the youngest player to score in a World Cup Final since fellow German Wolfgang Weber in 1966 (who was also 22).

 

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