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| Full name | Hans-Jörg Butt[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1974-05-28)28 May 1974 (age 51) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Oldenburg, West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1980–1991 | TSV Großenkneten | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1994 | VfB Oldenburg | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1997 | VfB Oldenburg | 87 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1997–2001 | Hamburger SV | 133 | (19) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2007 | Bayer Leverkusen | 191 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Benfica | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Bayern Munich | 63 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Bayern Munich II | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 479 | (32) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2010 | Germany | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hans-Jörg Butt (German pronunciation:[hansˈjœʁkˈbʊt]; born 28 May 1974), often simply calledJörg Butt, is a German formerfootballer who played as agoalkeeper.
Known for takingpenalty kicks,[2] and for often running into the opposing penalty box in an attempt to find a winner whenever his team were trailing,[3] he scored 26goals in theBundesliga.[4] He played forHamburger SV,Bayer Leverkusen andBayern Munich in his country, having arrived at Munich already aged 34.
Butt representedGermany in twoWorld Cups and atEuro 2000.
Butt was born inOldenburg[5] and raised in nearbyGroßenkneten,[6] where his father Jochen ran a company manufacturingloading ramps and industrial doors.[7] As a youngster, he played for the junior teams of his local football club, TSV Großenkneten, as astriker.[7]
Butt is married to Katja. As of November 2010, the couple had three children – a daughter and two sons.[5]
Butt started his professional career with modestOldenburg, achieving promotion to thesecond division in 1996.[8] He moved toHamburg in the 1997 summer and, inhis second season, scored seven goals for the team – all from thepenalty spot – adding nine in similar fashionthe following campaign.
Butt joinedBayer Leverkusen on afree transfer in 2001, being the side's undisputed starter in the subsequent campaigns (he only missed oneBundesliga match in his first five seasons combined and added seven goals), and appeared in all the games (17) for a team that lost toReal Madrid in the2001–02 UEFA Champions Leaguefinal, scoring a penalty in a 3–1 home win againstJuventus in the second group stage.
In2003–04, after scoring a penalty in an away match againstSchalke 04 on 17 April 2004, Butt turned away from midfield and began to enthusiastically celebrate with his teammates. He did not notice the whistle for the restart of the game and continued to celebrate. Schalke playerMike Hanke took the opportunity to shoot from the halfway line and scored while Butt was still jogging back to his position.[9][10]
After losing Leverkusen's nets to the youngRené Adler during the2006–07 season, Butt decided to cancel the contract that linked him to the club until 2009, activating a clause that allowed him to leave the club should he fail to appear in more than half of the games during the second half of the campaign.[11] In July 2007, he signed a two-year deal with Portuguese clubBenfica.[12]
Butt made hisEagles debut in the summer tournament ofTorneio de Guadiana, held between Benfica,Sporting CP andReal Betis. In the competition, he saved a penalty against Betis, helping Benfica with the final win. At theLisbon outfit, however, he played understudy toPortuguese internationalQuim, being used in thedomestic cupmatches. He only made oneleague appearance for Benfica, coming on as asubstitute after Quim wassent off againstC.S. Marítimo in October 2007 – in this match, he saved a penalty fromAriza Makukula with his first touch of the game, and his team eventually won 2–1.
On 4 June 2008, Butt signed a two-year contract withreigning championsBayern Munich and was expected to act as backup toOliver Kahn's heir, highly rated youngMichael Rensing.[13] He made his official debut for the club in theChampions League round-of-16 second leg againstSporting CP in a 7–1 home drubbing, on 10 March 2009. With Rensing dropped to the bench following a 5–1 loss atWolfsburg, he also started the remaining games ofthe season, as the initial first-choice was also nursing ahand injury.
After the team's poor start to the2009–10 season with Rensing in goal, Butt was reinstated as the first-choice. On 8 December 2009, he scored his first goal for the club, a crucial penalty in the club's lastChampions League group stage match at Juventus, coming from behind to a 4–1 victory – after this feat, he has managed to score a goal against Juventus in the Champions League for all three major German clubs he represented.[14]
On 30 January 2010, Butt missed out on the opportunity to score his first league goal for Bayern as his penalty was saved by1. FSV Mainz 05'sHeinz Müller, but it proved to be of no detriment to the club as it won 3–0. On 16 February, he was rewarded for an outstanding season with a contract extension until 2011.[15] He was also in goal for theChampions League final, where his team was denied an historictreble after losing 0–2 toInter Milan.
Midway through the2010–11 season, 36-year-old Butt lost his starting place to another club youth graduate,Thomas Kraft. However, a series of unconvincing displays by the youngster, including a 2–3 home loss against Inter Milan in theChampions League Round of 16 on 15 March 2011, and a 1–1 away draw with1. FC Nürnberg on 9 April, paved the way for the veteran to return to the starting line-up, which happened on 17 April, in a 5–1 home victory over former club Bayer Leverkusen, and he still appeared in 30 official games during the campaign (23 in the league), as his team finished in third position.
On 3 May 2011, Butt signed a one-year extension to his contract with Bayern,[16] backing up newly signedManuel Neuer. He retired at the end ofthe season at the age of 38, after afriendly with theNetherlands on 22 May 2012 in which he acted ascaptain.
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Butt wasGermany's third-choice goalkeeper, behindOliver Kahn andJens Lehmann, at both theUEFA Euro 2000 and the2002 FIFA World Cup, remaining an unused substitute in both tournaments.
He won three internationalcaps for Germany in friendly matches, his debut coming againstLiechtenstein on 7 June 2000, where he appeared for the second half of an 8–2 routing.
Butt,Manuel Neuer andTim Wiese were chosen as Germany's goalkeepers for the2010 World Cup, with Butt taking the place of former Leverkusen teammateRené Adler, who had to withdraw due to arib injury.[17] He made his only competitive international appearance on 10 July, appearing in the3–2 win againstUruguay in the tournament's third-place playoff.[18]
Butt was appointed head of theBayern Munich Junior Team on 1 July 2012.[19] He left the position on 7 August, stating "I misjudged this field of activity, for which I've had responsibility for a few weeks now. I approached my new appointment with great enthusiasm, but I have realised that the task does not offer the satisfaction and passion I wanted. This is the reason for my decision. I would like to thank FC Bayern for their understanding."[20]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | |||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Hamburger SV | 1997–98 | Bundesliga | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
| 1998–99 | Bundesliga | 34 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 7 | |
| 1999–00 | Bundesliga | 34 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 9 | |
| 2000–01 | Bundesliga | 32 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 4 | |
| Total | 133 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 147 | 20 | ||
| Bayer Leverkusen | 2001–02 | Bundesliga | 34 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 57 | 3 |
| 2002–03 | Bundesliga | 33 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | |
| 2003–04 | Bundesliga | 34 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 1 | |
| 2004–05 | Bundesliga | 34 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 44 | 2 | |
| 2005–06 | Bundesliga | 34 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 1 | |
| 2006–07 | Bundesliga | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 32 | 0 | |
| Total | 191 | 7 | 19 | 0 | 45 | 1 | 255 | 8 | ||
| Benfica | 2007–08 | Primeira Liga | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Bayern Munich | 2008–09 | Bundesliga | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 2009–10 | Bundesliga | 31 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 46 | 1 | |
| 2010–11 | Bundesliga | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | |
| 2011–12 | Bundesliga | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 63 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 89 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 388 | 26 | 37 | 0 | 71 | 3 | 496 | 29 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | |
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