If a dictionary of 21st century German football were to be made, Schweinsteiger should have a privileged place. His name will always be linked to Bayern Munich. Since he debuted with the Bavarian team in the 2002-2003 season until the 2015-2016 season when he went to the Premier, he played 500 games with that shirt and he won eight Bundesliga titles, a Champions League, among other titles. In 2013, he took the trophy for the best German player of the year.
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After a disappointing stint at Manchester United In which the injuries and his habitual absence in the calls prevented him from showing the level he had shown in Munich, although he added to his record a Europa League he did not participate in the final stretch of the competition. He had decided to go try his luck at the MLS, specifically the Chicago Fire, the club where he hung up his boots. The player himself announced his withdrawal on Twitter on October 8, 2019.
Bastian Schweinsteiger's break lasted three days. On October 11 the German midfielder announced that he would be a sports commentator on the German television network ARD. In principle, the German player will be in charge of commenting on international matches at the 2020 Euro Cup, postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and also among his tasks will be to analyze matches during the qualification phase and the final phase of the World Cup. of 2022. Without a doubt, Bastian is a voice more than authorized to comment on a World Cup event, since he himself has contested it three times, proclaiming himself champion in 2014 and falling in the semifinals in 2006 and 2010 against Italy and Spain, respectively.
At the moment, he has not shown interest in the benches, although it is true that not a year has passed since he played his last game with the Chicago Fire against the Orlando City, on October 6, 2019. Now his option is to remain linked to football through the media.
Since last June, a documentary that recounts the entire career of the former Bayern Munich player and himself recounts aspects of his life away from the field of play is available on Amazon Prime Video, in Germany.
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Bastian Schweinsteiger has been married since 2016 to the Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic whom he met thanks to a mutual friend: the German tennis player Andrea Petkovic. Schweinsteiger and Ivanovic have a two-year-old son named Luka. Both are soccer fans, although Schweini has been a Bayern supporter since he entered the Bavarian squad and his wife, a native of Belgrade, from Partizán at the age of 13.