 Ottl with1. FC Nürnberg in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1985-03-01)1 March 1985 (age 40) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Munich, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1996 | SV Nord Lerchenau[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2003 | Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2007 | Bayern Munich II | 78 | (9) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2011 | Bayern Munich | 92 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | →1. FC Nürnberg (loan) | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Hertha BSC | 26 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | FC Augsburg | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 226 | (15) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Germany U-20 | 11 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Team 2006 | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | Germany U-21[2] | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 05:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Andreas Ottl (German pronunciation:[anˈdʁeːasˈʔɔtl̩]; born 1 March 1985) is a German former professionalfootballer who played as adefensive midfielder. He signed his first professional contract forBayern Munich in 2005. He also played forGermany's U-21 Team.
Ottl began playing forBayern Munich in 1996 after his parents had originally refused to let him leave hometown club Nord Lerchenau for Bayern.[3] He played for theJunior Team where he won three youth championships,[3] before being promoted to thereserve team in 2003. During the2003–04 season, in theRegionalliga Süd, Ottl scored a goal in 25 matches.[4] He would go to score five goals in 34 matches and make four appearances in theGerman Cup thefollowing season.[5] Having become a key player of the reserve team in the third division, he was given the chance to play for the senior team in 2005.[6] At the time, Ottl was one of six players (along withPhilipp Lahm,Christian Lell,Stephan Fürstner,Sandro Wagner) of the Bayern Munich junior team to feature in the Bundesliga squad. He signed professional forms on 1 July 2005, his first full-time contract, thus following in the footsteps ofBastian Schweinsteiger,Owen Hargreaves and others.
On 13 August 2005, Ottl made his debut for Bayern Munich, coming on as a substitute forHasan Salihamidžić in a 5–2 win overBayer Leverkusen.[7] On 15 October 2005, Ottl made his first start in a 3–0 win overSchalke 04 and played 90 minutes.[8] On 5 June 2006, Ottl scored his first goal against1. FC Kaiserslautern in a 1–1 draw.[1] In hisfirst season, Ottl scored a goal in only eight league appearances[9] and the club won the league title. He also scored two goals in 18 appearances during the2005–06 Regionalliga season for the reserve team.[9] Thefollowing season, Ottl made 24 appearances.[10] He scored his only Bundesliga goal of the season against Schalke.[10] He made hisChampions League debut in a 2–0 win overInter Milan where he received a booking and played 90 minutes.[11] UnderOttmar Hitzfeld, Ottl got more playing time and more often used often because he could play all positions in the midfield or central defense. He also scored a goal in two matches in the German Cup,[10] played in twoGerman League Cup matches,[12][13] and played in seven Champions League matches.[10]
In the2007–08 season, Ottl featured less, making 19 appearances.[14] Ottl soon found himself lower in the pecking order and once again spent time on the bench after the arrival ofMark van Bommel andFranck Ribéry. This led Ottl to consider leaving the club in order to secure first-team football if he failed to be given enough games in the coming months.[15] However, Ottl did not leave the club that season winning another league title and the DFB-Pokal with Bayern. He also made three German Cup appearances,[14] three German League Cup matches,[12][16] and eightUEFA Cup matches.[14] After the2008–09 season with 22 appearances,[17] he played less under new managerLouis van Gaal. Earlier in the season, Ottl was among players who should be sold but Ottl insisted he wanted to stay at the club.[18] He also had four German Cup appearances and six Champions League appearances.[17] He made four Bundesliga appearances,[19] one German Cup appearance,[12] and four Champions League appearances[12] during the2009–10 season for Bayern Munich. Ottl,[20] along with teammateBreno,[21] was loaned out on 1 January 2010 to1. FC Nürnberg for the remainder of the season.[21]
In order to get more first team opportunities, Ottl was loaned out to1. FC Nürnberg,[20] along with Breno,[21] from January 2010 to June 2010.[21] On 17 January 2010, Ottl made his debut for the club in a 1–0 loss against Schalke 04. Since making his debut, Ottl established himself in the starting eleven. In the last game of the season on 8 May 2010, Ottl scored his only goal in the game as Nürnberg won 1–0, ending a four-match drought without a win. The club avoided relegation[3] when they won the Bundesliga play-offs againstFC Augsburg. The club won 3–0 on aggregate to stay in the Bundesliga. He finished his loan spell with a goal in 17 league appearances,[19] no German Cup appearances,[12] and two relegation playoff appearances.[12]
After his loan-spell at 1. FC Nürnberg, Ottl returned and vowed to fight for a place in the side as he tried to break into the first team.[22] He played in theGerman Super Cup.[23] In the first half of the season, Ottl replaced captain van Bommel. On 20 November 2011, Ottl made his 100th appearance for Bayern Munich in a 1–1 draw against Bayer Leverkusen. In the round of 16 of the DFB-Pokal on 22 December 2010, Ottl scored his first goal in over two years in 6–3 thriller win overStuttgart. He finished the season with 15 league appearances,[24] a goal in three German Cup appearances,[24] three Champions League appearances,[24] and a German Super Cup appearance.[23]
Ottl played 109 Bundesliga games scoring nine goals. In theChampions League he played 20 matches.[25] He won three German championships and threecups as a Bayern Munich player.[25]
On 21 May 2011, Andreas Ottl became the fourth new signing forHertha BSC after he signed a three-year contract with the club on a free transfer following his released by Bayern Munich.[25][26] He had been a Bayern Munich player for 15 years before joining Hertha BSC on 1 July.[25] Ottl scored on his Hertha BSC debut in the 4–0 win overZFC Meuselwitz on 31 July 2011 in the DFB-Pokal. On 6 August 2011, Ottl made his league debut for the club in a 1–1 draw against Nürnberg. On 11 February 2012, Ottl received a straight red card in a 5–0 loss against Stuttgart.
On 16 October 2011, Ottl returned for the first time with Hertha back to his old club Bayern Munich which turned out to be a quite bitter reunion for Ottl; the Berlin club lost 0–4. Prior to the game, Ottl and two other members of Hertha (Christian Lell and Thomas Kraft) were honored with a bouquet of flowers by the Bayern staff and the fans were chanting pro Ottl throughout the game.
He was released on 6 June 2012, along with several other players, after the club was relegated from the Bundesliga.[27] He finished his only season at Hertha with 26 Bundesliga appearances and a goal in three German Cup appearances.[28]
On 9 July 2012, Ottl signed forFC Augsburg on a two-year deal.[29][30] Ottl made 16 appearances during the2012–13 season; failing to score a goal.[31] The limited number of appearances was partially due to an injury he picked up againstBayern Munich.[32] Ottl failed to make any appearances during the2013–14 season[33] despite being fit.[34] Ottl's contract expired[35] without any extension.[36]
Ottl stated he wanted to play for a team outside of Germany,[36] because the Bundesliga "no longer interests him."[6] He had several offers and was in negotiations with two European clubs from outside Germany.[35] He was still without a contract when the January 2016 transfer window closed.[3]
Ottl, in 2017, became a member of the performance acceleration technology company,RippleWorx, Inc., to work with the company founders:Jonas Hummels, Dr. Timo Sandritter, Angie Sandritter, and Brian Hadley.[37][38][39]
Ottl was born inMunich,West Germany[34] on 1 March 1985.[31] Ottl is long-time friends withPhilipp Lahm who like to play snooker and tennis together.[35] His girlfriend started an online company for home furnishings.[6] Ottl is one of the shareholders of the company.[6]
| Club[12] | Season[12] | League | Cup1 | League Cup2 | Continental3 | Other4 | Total | Ref. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Bayern Munich II | 2003–04 | Regionalliga Süd | 25 | 1 | — | — | — | 25 | 1 | [4] | |||||
| 2004–05 | 34 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 5 | [5] | ||||||||
| 2005–06 | 18 | 2 | — | 18 | 2 | [9] | |||||||||
| 2006–07 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | [10] | ||||||||||
| Totals | 78 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 82 | 9 | — | ||||||||
| Bayern Munich | 2004–05 | Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [5] | ||
| 2005–06 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | [9] | ||||
| 2006–07 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 35 | 2 | [10][12] | ||||
| 2007–08 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 33 | 3 | [12][14] | ||||
| 2008–09 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | [17] | |||||
| 2009–10 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | [19] | ||||||
| 2010–11 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 1 | [23][24] | ||||
| Totals | 92 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 141 | 8 | — | ||
| Nürnberg (loan) | 2009–10 | Bundesliga | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | [12][19] | |||
| Hertha BSC | 2011–12 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | [28] | |||||
| Augsburg | 2012–13 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 16 | 0 | [31] | ||||||
| 2013–14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | [33] | ||||||||
| Totals | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | — | ||||||||
| Career totals | 226 | 15 | 25 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 287 | 17 | — | ||