Personal informationFull name : Michael Ballack
Date of birth : 26 September 1976
Place of birth : Görlitz, East Germany
Height : 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club Bayer Leverkusen
Number 13
Youth career
1983–1995 Chemnitzer FC
Senior career*
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC II
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC
1997–1999 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1999–2002 Bayer Leverkusen
2002–2006 Bayern Munich
2006–2010 Chelsea
2010– Bayer Leverkusen
National team‡
1996–1998 Germany U21
1999– Germany
Club career
Chemnitzer FC
Michael Ballack's parents sent him to train with the side as shortly as he was seven years old. He subsequent shifted on to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed Chemnitzer FC in 1990). His dad had played second-division football himself in Germany. Unusual for his early age was Ballack's skill to exert both feet with identical authority.
In 1995, Ballack earned his first businessman contract, thank you to his plays in the role of interior midfielder. He was dubbed the "Little Kaiser", in reference to Franz Beckenbauer, whoever was nicknamed "Der Kaiser". His businessman debut came on 4 August 1995, on the first day of the fresh 2. Bundesliga season. Chemnitz no where the game 2–1, against VfB Leipzig.
At the end of the season, during which Ballack prepared fifteen arrivals, Chemnitz were relegated to the multi-tiered, regional third division. On 26 March 1996, Ballack prepared his debut for Germany's Under-21 side.
The chasing season, Ballack became a regular first-team actor as Chemnitz missed out on an realtime return to the Bundesliga. He did not miss a game and scored ten targets for the "Sky Blues". It was not enough for Chemnitz to be promoted, but in the summer of 1997, bus Otto Rehhagel of just-promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern gestured Ballack at their return to lid flight football.
Kaiserslautern
It was during the seventh game of the 1997–98 season, away to Karlsruhe, that Rehhagel decided to pitch Ballack into the Bundesliga for the first time, whether merely for the final five minutes of the encounter. On 28 March 1998, Ballack prepared his first-team debut against Bayer Leverkusen.
Ballack prepared 16 arrivals for his fresh team during the season as the club became the first-ever newly promoted team to elevator the league title. In the chasing season, Ballack became both a regular (he prepared thirty arrivals, scoring four goals) and one of the side's spearheading players. Kaiserslautern arrived the quarter finals of the Champions League, but were knocked out via Bayern Munich.
On 1 July 1999, Ballack shifted to Bayer Leverkusen at the age of 22, for a transfer payment of €4.1 million.
Bayer Leverkusen
It was at Bayer Leverkusen that Ballack prepared his breakthrough. Coaches Christoph Daum and Klaus Toppmöller given him an assailing role in the midfield. Ballack was instrumental to the success of Leverkusen, scoring 27 targets in the league and nine in Europe across the course of his three seasons at the BayArena.
In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen lacked merely a draw against minnows Unterhaching to win the name, but an possess target via Ballack facilitated send the team to a crushing 0–2 defeat, whereas Bayern Munich clinched the name with a 3–1 victory across Werder Bremen. 2002 was a season of disappointment for Bayer Leverkusen. In the German Bundesliga, the team surrendered a five point lead at the lid of the desk across the final three sport of the season to ending second behind Borussia Dortmund, no where the UEFA Champions League final 2–1 to Real Madrid, and no where the German Cup final 4–2 to Schalke 04. These three runner-up completes were dubbed a "Treble Horror".
Ballack and Leverkusen teammates Bernd Schneider, Carsten Ramelow, and Oliver Neuville were even defeated finalists with Germany in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, however Ballack was suspended for the final itself. Ballack done with 17 league targets, and his performance across the season led to him being voted into the UEFA.com users' Team of 2002 as well being dubbed German Footballer of the Year.
Bayern Munich
Ballack playing for Bayern Munich
In spite of Real Madrid's hobby, Ballack decided to clue with Bayern Munich in a €12.9 million sell in 2002 afterwards his grand plays in the World Cup. Bayern won the Bundesliga in his first season with 75 points, they also won the German Cup. In his second season however, Bayern no where their Bundesliga crown to Werder Bremen along with the cup.
In his third season with the Bavarians, Ballack relished success in the 2004–05 season as Bayern Munich ended another double. New bus Felix Magath stated he was the merely automatic starter in their midfield.[3] In four seasons at Bayern, Ballack won three Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal doubles and scored 47 targets in 135 matches. Between 1998 and 2005, Ballack notched upward 61 targets in his servant league.
However, Ballack's critics recorded his frequent "choking" in significant Champions League matches. This resulted in frank public criticism from club overall administrator Uli Hoeneß, communications director Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and club president Franz Beckenbauer, all prior Bayern players. Beckenbauer subsequent went as far as to blame Ballack of "saving his strength" for prospective employers afterwards Ballack turned in an average performance in the 2006 DFB Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Chelsea
Ballack matched to attend Chelsea on a adrift transfer on 15 May 2006.[5] During his final season as a Bayern actor there were rumours of hobby from Manchester United, Real Madrid, Internazionale and A.C. Milan,[6] but Ballack instead chose to go to Stamford Bridge. Shortly afterwards arriving at Chelsea, Ballack stated that he hoped to end his career at Chelsea.
Ballack with Chelsea
Ballack's debut for Chelsea came on 31 July 2006, during a practice suit at UCLA's intramural football pitch. Chelsea handed him to the media the chasing day where the club also gave him his fancied figure 13 shirt, worn during his career. Upon doing so, William Gallas, whoever formerly wore the figure 13 shirt for Chelsea, was given the figure three shirt. This shift composed animosity between Gallas and the club as Gallas sensed that he was underappreciated. On 27 August 2006, Ballack earned his English League debut for Chelsea against Blackburn Rovers, and prepared his UEFA Champions League debut for Chelsea against Werder Bremen on 12 September 2006.
Ballack scored his first target for Chelsea in the subsequent suit against Werder Bremen. He received his first straight red card of his career in Chelsea's 1–0 win across Liverpool on 17 September 2006, afterwards being judged to have stamped on Mohamed Sissoko's leg. Ballack scored his first target in the English League on 21 October 2006 against Portsmouth at home with a header. His first FA Cup target came in the 109th tiny in a suit against Blackburn Rovers on 15 April 2007. This target resulted in Chelsea underway into the FA Cup final. He scored eight targets in all contests for the club in the 2006–07 season, encompassing a free-kick against Everton at Goodison Park, as well as a half-volley against F.C. Porto which sent Chelsea through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Throughout his first season at Chelsea, Ballack was criticised for his lethargic plays – for playing as though he had "a massive cigar in his mouth".
On 29 April 2007, Chelsea discharged a pronouncement on their official website, informing fans that Ballack had undergone ankle medicine in Munich. As a effect of the medicine, Ballack did not play in the FA Cup Final against Manchester United, which Chelsea won 1–0 through Didier Drogba's extra time goal. This was Ballack's second trophy this season, his first being the League Cup, the final of which he started.
Despite persistent rumours in the summer 2007 transfer window, Ballack refused that he hoped to retire and no such shift materialised. Chelsea retired Ballack out of their Champions League squad for the 2007–08 team degree as they realised that his injury would prevent him from playing any useful fraction and favourite to choose the fully fit Steve Sidwell. The German global had an ankle mission in the summer and Chelsea could not take the threat of him not regaining full fitness ago the end of the Group Stage. Thus, Ballack could not play in the Champions League ago the knockout phases originated in February. The club was merely able to choose 23 out of a possible 25 players for their Champions League squad due to the fresh UEFA laws on 'association-trained players' and 'club-trained players'. Due to this law, Chelsea were also unable to choose young actor Scott Sinclair and could merely pick 23 players as their merely 'club-trained player' was John Terry. For this purpose, it was deemed unwise to gamble on Ballack being fit at several point.[
Ballack was absent for eight months with an ankle injury, during which he dreaded that his football career might be in danger of ending as he was fetching older. He prepared his return to the side in Chelsea's 2–0 League Cup win across Liverpool on 19 December 2007. Ballack scored an contribute late in the game to striker Andriy Shevchenko. On 26 December 2007, Ballack prepared his league return in a thrilling game against Aston Villa which ended 4–4. He came on for Frank Lampard in the 26th tiny afterwards the latter had picked upward a thigh injury. In first-half stoppage time, he won a punishment afterwards being brought down in the box via Zat Knight, which Andriy Shevchenko converted. In the 88th tiny, with the score tied at 3–3, Ballack stepped upward to take a free-kick, which he buried into the bottom retired corner of the target, but the suit ended in a 4–4 draw.
Ballack playing against Tottenham Hotpsur.
Ballack captained the Chelsea team in the absence of captain John Terry and vice captain Frank Lampard in a 2–1 win across Newcastle United on 29 December 2007. Ballack thereafter played his 50th game in a Chelsea shirt in a 2–1 win against Fulham in which he scored the winning target for Chelsea. He also scored the merely target that won the suit for Chelsea against Reading to continue the blues' winning streak to a record of nine. And, on 5 March 2007, he scored again, this time against Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 in a 3–0 win. He scored the winning target in the 2–0 win in the 2nd leg of the Quarter-Finals against Fenerbahçe, a victory that roped Chelsea a position in the Semi-Finals.
Ballack lasted to score crucial targets and, on 26 April 2008, he scored a header and a punishment to give Chelsea a 2–1 win across Manchester United. He was dubbed Man of The Match for his performance. It brought the pair teams horizontal in the race for the Premier League name merely pair matchdays ago the end of the season.
Chelsea players afterwards a suit in 2009. Players from retired to right (Ballack, Alex, Essien, and Ashley Cole.)
The season ended on a low letter for Ballack as Chelsea done runners upward in the League Cup, Premier League and UEFA Champions League. This ended another treble horror for Ballack and his club. On 29 June 2008, Germany, captained via Ballack, no where to Spain 1–0 in the final of the UEFA Euro 2008 championship. This became the second season in Ballack's career that he was runner-up for four main trophies.
The 2008–09 season began well for Ballack, he establish Joe Cole to score the first target in a 4–0 win across Portsmouth in the first game of the season. Ballack was injured soon afterwards absent the sport against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. Ballack's return from injury has been a elevator for Chelsea as he establish Deco to score a scissor kick in a 2–0 win against Bolton Wanderers. Ballack's first target of the '09 season came against Southend United in their FA Cup replay, a suit which Chelsea went on to win 4–1. Ballack's first Premier League target of the '09 Season came on 11 April 2009 in a suit against Bolton Wanderers, ending 4–3 for Chelsea. He came on as a second half substitute as Chelsea won the 2009 FA Cup Final.
On two June 2009, Ballack gestured a one-year contract extension with Chelsea.
Michael Ballack in movement against Fulham in 2009.
In Chelsea's second game of the season, away at Sunderland, Ballack scored his first target of the 2009–10 campaign in their 3–1 win. Ballack also scored against Burnley in a 3–0 win. Ballack prepared his Champions league arrival against Portuguese side Porto. On twenty September 2009, he scored his third league target, against Tottenham Hotspur. On 17 January 2010, he scored his fourth league target and third contribute in a 7–2 win against Sunderland. In Chelsea's fifth around FA Cup tie against Cardiff City, Ballack scored the target which placed the Blues rear in front and they comfortably saw the Bluebirds home 4–1 in the end. He was sent off in Chelsea's 4–2 defeat against Manchester City on 27 February 2010. However, Chelsea went on to win the 2009–10 Premier League, Ballack's first league name in England. He also began as Chelsea were victorious in the 2010 FA Cup Final, however he would come off injured soon ago half time.
On 9 June 2010, it was broadcast that Michael Ballack, along with team-mates Joe Cole and Juliano Belletti would retire Chelsea on a adrift transfer afterwards his contract was not renewed.
Return to Leverkusen
On 25 June 2010, Michael Ballack gestured a pair year contract with Bayer Leverkusen. On 19 August 2010, he scored the first target for Leverkusen in a 3–0 win against Tavria Simferopol in the Europe League qualifiers. On six October 2010, it was broadcast that Michael Ballack would not play again in 2010 at the club or global horizontal due to a shin injury maintained 11 September 2010 in a Bundesliga suit against Hannover 96.
International career
Ballack translating a punishment for Germany at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in a suit against Australia
On 26 March 1996, Ballack debuted for the national U21 team against Denmark, soon afterwards signing for Chemnitz. In all, he played 19 suits for this side, scoring four goals. Then, chasing his shift to Kaiserslautern, national bus Berti Vogts paged him upward to the senior team.
Ballack's first arrival, however, did not come until 28 April 1999, as shortly as he came on as a substitute for Dietmar Hamann in a suit against Scotland.
Ballack merely played 63 minutes at the UEFA Euro 2000 championship. In the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he scored in suits against the United States and South Korea during the knock-out circles as Germany arrived the final. However, he was reserved for a tactical foul during the semi-final suit against South Korea and was suspended for the final which Germany went on to lose 2–0 to Brazil. He was included in the World Cup All Star Team.
Following the UEFA Euro 2004 championship, Jürgen Klinsmann displaced Rudi Völler at the helm of the national team and Ballack took across from Oliver Kahn as captain.
In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was unable to begin in Germany's first game against Costa Rica due to a calf strain, but emerged in the chasing five matches. Germany was eliminated in the semi-finals, but they handled to clinch 3rd position in a suit against Portugal. He was dubbed Man of the Match in the sport against Ecuador and Argentina, and was included in FIFA's World Cup All Star Team for a second consecutive time.
On six February 2008, Ballack played his first suit since returning from injury in a 3–0 friendly win across Austria.
Ballack began and captained Germany's first game of the UEFA Euro 2008 championship against Poland. He proved to be an influential figure in the midfield as Germany came rear from a horrify defeat to Croatia to produce it to the final, scoring a adrift kick against Austria to lock Germany a 1–0 win and a position in the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, he scored a controversial header against Portugal to produce the score 3–1 in their 3–2 win afterwards an contribute via Bastian Schweinsteiger's 60th tiny adrift kick, facilitating Germany to improve to the semi-finals. Germany went on to defeat Turkey 3–2 in the semifinals. Prior to the final, Ballack maintained a calf injury but finally overcame it in time. However, Germany ended upward losing 1–0 to Spain. Nevertheless, he was dubbed in the Team of the Tournament.
Ballack can boast that, dating rear to June 2005, Germany has never no where a game as shortly as he has scored. He scored 4 targets in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. However, he missed the 2010 FIFA World Cup chasing a foul via Kevin-Prince Boateng in the FA Cup Final that caused an ankle injury. Boateng is a prior Germany U21 actor and half-brother of prevailing German global Jérôme Boateng. Kevin-Prince Boateng went on to play for Ghana against the German team in the World Cup team stages
Date of birth : 26 September 1976
Place of birth : Görlitz, East Germany
Height : 1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Club information
Current club Bayer Leverkusen
Number 13
Youth career
1983–1995 Chemnitzer FC
Senior career*
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC II
1995–1997 Chemnitzer FC
1997–1999 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1999–2002 Bayer Leverkusen
2002–2006 Bayern Munich
2006–2010 Chelsea
2010– Bayer Leverkusen
National team‡
1996–1998 Germany U21
1999– Germany
Club career
Chemnitzer FC
Michael Ballack's parents sent him to train with the side as shortly as he was seven years old. He subsequent shifted on to FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed Chemnitzer FC in 1990). His dad had played second-division football himself in Germany. Unusual for his early age was Ballack's skill to exert both feet with identical authority.
In 1995, Ballack earned his first businessman contract, thank you to his plays in the role of interior midfielder. He was dubbed the "Little Kaiser", in reference to Franz Beckenbauer, whoever was nicknamed "Der Kaiser". His businessman debut came on 4 August 1995, on the first day of the fresh 2. Bundesliga season. Chemnitz no where the game 2–1, against VfB Leipzig.
At the end of the season, during which Ballack prepared fifteen arrivals, Chemnitz were relegated to the multi-tiered, regional third division. On 26 March 1996, Ballack prepared his debut for Germany's Under-21 side.
The chasing season, Ballack became a regular first-team actor as Chemnitz missed out on an realtime return to the Bundesliga. He did not miss a game and scored ten targets for the "Sky Blues". It was not enough for Chemnitz to be promoted, but in the summer of 1997, bus Otto Rehhagel of just-promoted 1. FC Kaiserslautern gestured Ballack at their return to lid flight football.
Kaiserslautern
It was during the seventh game of the 1997–98 season, away to Karlsruhe, that Rehhagel decided to pitch Ballack into the Bundesliga for the first time, whether merely for the final five minutes of the encounter. On 28 March 1998, Ballack prepared his first-team debut against Bayer Leverkusen.
Ballack prepared 16 arrivals for his fresh team during the season as the club became the first-ever newly promoted team to elevator the league title. In the chasing season, Ballack became both a regular (he prepared thirty arrivals, scoring four goals) and one of the side's spearheading players. Kaiserslautern arrived the quarter finals of the Champions League, but were knocked out via Bayern Munich.
On 1 July 1999, Ballack shifted to Bayer Leverkusen at the age of 22, for a transfer payment of €4.1 million.
Bayer Leverkusen
It was at Bayer Leverkusen that Ballack prepared his breakthrough. Coaches Christoph Daum and Klaus Toppmöller given him an assailing role in the midfield. Ballack was instrumental to the success of Leverkusen, scoring 27 targets in the league and nine in Europe across the course of his three seasons at the BayArena.
In 2000, Bayer Leverkusen lacked merely a draw against minnows Unterhaching to win the name, but an possess target via Ballack facilitated send the team to a crushing 0–2 defeat, whereas Bayern Munich clinched the name with a 3–1 victory across Werder Bremen. 2002 was a season of disappointment for Bayer Leverkusen. In the German Bundesliga, the team surrendered a five point lead at the lid of the desk across the final three sport of the season to ending second behind Borussia Dortmund, no where the UEFA Champions League final 2–1 to Real Madrid, and no where the German Cup final 4–2 to Schalke 04. These three runner-up completes were dubbed a "Treble Horror".
Ballack and Leverkusen teammates Bernd Schneider, Carsten Ramelow, and Oliver Neuville were even defeated finalists with Germany in the 2002 FIFA World Cup, however Ballack was suspended for the final itself. Ballack done with 17 league targets, and his performance across the season led to him being voted into the UEFA.com users' Team of 2002 as well being dubbed German Footballer of the Year.
Bayern Munich
Ballack playing for Bayern Munich
In spite of Real Madrid's hobby, Ballack decided to clue with Bayern Munich in a €12.9 million sell in 2002 afterwards his grand plays in the World Cup. Bayern won the Bundesliga in his first season with 75 points, they also won the German Cup. In his second season however, Bayern no where their Bundesliga crown to Werder Bremen along with the cup.
In his third season with the Bavarians, Ballack relished success in the 2004–05 season as Bayern Munich ended another double. New bus Felix Magath stated he was the merely automatic starter in their midfield.[3] In four seasons at Bayern, Ballack won three Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal doubles and scored 47 targets in 135 matches. Between 1998 and 2005, Ballack notched upward 61 targets in his servant league.
However, Ballack's critics recorded his frequent "choking" in significant Champions League matches. This resulted in frank public criticism from club overall administrator Uli Hoeneß, communications director Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and club president Franz Beckenbauer, all prior Bayern players. Beckenbauer subsequent went as far as to blame Ballack of "saving his strength" for prospective employers afterwards Ballack turned in an average performance in the 2006 DFB Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt.
Chelsea
Ballack matched to attend Chelsea on a adrift transfer on 15 May 2006.[5] During his final season as a Bayern actor there were rumours of hobby from Manchester United, Real Madrid, Internazionale and A.C. Milan,[6] but Ballack instead chose to go to Stamford Bridge. Shortly afterwards arriving at Chelsea, Ballack stated that he hoped to end his career at Chelsea.
Ballack with Chelsea
Ballack's debut for Chelsea came on 31 July 2006, during a practice suit at UCLA's intramural football pitch. Chelsea handed him to the media the chasing day where the club also gave him his fancied figure 13 shirt, worn during his career. Upon doing so, William Gallas, whoever formerly wore the figure 13 shirt for Chelsea, was given the figure three shirt. This shift composed animosity between Gallas and the club as Gallas sensed that he was underappreciated. On 27 August 2006, Ballack earned his English League debut for Chelsea against Blackburn Rovers, and prepared his UEFA Champions League debut for Chelsea against Werder Bremen on 12 September 2006.
Ballack scored his first target for Chelsea in the subsequent suit against Werder Bremen. He received his first straight red card of his career in Chelsea's 1–0 win across Liverpool on 17 September 2006, afterwards being judged to have stamped on Mohamed Sissoko's leg. Ballack scored his first target in the English League on 21 October 2006 against Portsmouth at home with a header. His first FA Cup target came in the 109th tiny in a suit against Blackburn Rovers on 15 April 2007. This target resulted in Chelsea underway into the FA Cup final. He scored eight targets in all contests for the club in the 2006–07 season, encompassing a free-kick against Everton at Goodison Park, as well as a half-volley against F.C. Porto which sent Chelsea through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. Throughout his first season at Chelsea, Ballack was criticised for his lethargic plays – for playing as though he had "a massive cigar in his mouth".
On 29 April 2007, Chelsea discharged a pronouncement on their official website, informing fans that Ballack had undergone ankle medicine in Munich. As a effect of the medicine, Ballack did not play in the FA Cup Final against Manchester United, which Chelsea won 1–0 through Didier Drogba's extra time goal. This was Ballack's second trophy this season, his first being the League Cup, the final of which he started.
Despite persistent rumours in the summer 2007 transfer window, Ballack refused that he hoped to retire and no such shift materialised. Chelsea retired Ballack out of their Champions League squad for the 2007–08 team degree as they realised that his injury would prevent him from playing any useful fraction and favourite to choose the fully fit Steve Sidwell. The German global had an ankle mission in the summer and Chelsea could not take the threat of him not regaining full fitness ago the end of the Group Stage. Thus, Ballack could not play in the Champions League ago the knockout phases originated in February. The club was merely able to choose 23 out of a possible 25 players for their Champions League squad due to the fresh UEFA laws on 'association-trained players' and 'club-trained players'. Due to this law, Chelsea were also unable to choose young actor Scott Sinclair and could merely pick 23 players as their merely 'club-trained player' was John Terry. For this purpose, it was deemed unwise to gamble on Ballack being fit at several point.[
Ballack was absent for eight months with an ankle injury, during which he dreaded that his football career might be in danger of ending as he was fetching older. He prepared his return to the side in Chelsea's 2–0 League Cup win across Liverpool on 19 December 2007. Ballack scored an contribute late in the game to striker Andriy Shevchenko. On 26 December 2007, Ballack prepared his league return in a thrilling game against Aston Villa which ended 4–4. He came on for Frank Lampard in the 26th tiny afterwards the latter had picked upward a thigh injury. In first-half stoppage time, he won a punishment afterwards being brought down in the box via Zat Knight, which Andriy Shevchenko converted. In the 88th tiny, with the score tied at 3–3, Ballack stepped upward to take a free-kick, which he buried into the bottom retired corner of the target, but the suit ended in a 4–4 draw.
Ballack playing against Tottenham Hotpsur.
Ballack captained the Chelsea team in the absence of captain John Terry and vice captain Frank Lampard in a 2–1 win across Newcastle United on 29 December 2007. Ballack thereafter played his 50th game in a Chelsea shirt in a 2–1 win against Fulham in which he scored the winning target for Chelsea. He also scored the merely target that won the suit for Chelsea against Reading to continue the blues' winning streak to a record of nine. And, on 5 March 2007, he scored again, this time against Olympiacos in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 in a 3–0 win. He scored the winning target in the 2–0 win in the 2nd leg of the Quarter-Finals against Fenerbahçe, a victory that roped Chelsea a position in the Semi-Finals.
Ballack lasted to score crucial targets and, on 26 April 2008, he scored a header and a punishment to give Chelsea a 2–1 win across Manchester United. He was dubbed Man of The Match for his performance. It brought the pair teams horizontal in the race for the Premier League name merely pair matchdays ago the end of the season.
Chelsea players afterwards a suit in 2009. Players from retired to right (Ballack, Alex, Essien, and Ashley Cole.)
The season ended on a low letter for Ballack as Chelsea done runners upward in the League Cup, Premier League and UEFA Champions League. This ended another treble horror for Ballack and his club. On 29 June 2008, Germany, captained via Ballack, no where to Spain 1–0 in the final of the UEFA Euro 2008 championship. This became the second season in Ballack's career that he was runner-up for four main trophies.
The 2008–09 season began well for Ballack, he establish Joe Cole to score the first target in a 4–0 win across Portsmouth in the first game of the season. Ballack was injured soon afterwards absent the sport against Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal. Ballack's return from injury has been a elevator for Chelsea as he establish Deco to score a scissor kick in a 2–0 win against Bolton Wanderers. Ballack's first target of the '09 season came against Southend United in their FA Cup replay, a suit which Chelsea went on to win 4–1. Ballack's first Premier League target of the '09 Season came on 11 April 2009 in a suit against Bolton Wanderers, ending 4–3 for Chelsea. He came on as a second half substitute as Chelsea won the 2009 FA Cup Final.
On two June 2009, Ballack gestured a one-year contract extension with Chelsea.
Michael Ballack in movement against Fulham in 2009.
In Chelsea's second game of the season, away at Sunderland, Ballack scored his first target of the 2009–10 campaign in their 3–1 win. Ballack also scored against Burnley in a 3–0 win. Ballack prepared his Champions league arrival against Portuguese side Porto. On twenty September 2009, he scored his third league target, against Tottenham Hotspur. On 17 January 2010, he scored his fourth league target and third contribute in a 7–2 win against Sunderland. In Chelsea's fifth around FA Cup tie against Cardiff City, Ballack scored the target which placed the Blues rear in front and they comfortably saw the Bluebirds home 4–1 in the end. He was sent off in Chelsea's 4–2 defeat against Manchester City on 27 February 2010. However, Chelsea went on to win the 2009–10 Premier League, Ballack's first league name in England. He also began as Chelsea were victorious in the 2010 FA Cup Final, however he would come off injured soon ago half time.
On 9 June 2010, it was broadcast that Michael Ballack, along with team-mates Joe Cole and Juliano Belletti would retire Chelsea on a adrift transfer afterwards his contract was not renewed.
Return to Leverkusen
On 25 June 2010, Michael Ballack gestured a pair year contract with Bayer Leverkusen. On 19 August 2010, he scored the first target for Leverkusen in a 3–0 win against Tavria Simferopol in the Europe League qualifiers. On six October 2010, it was broadcast that Michael Ballack would not play again in 2010 at the club or global horizontal due to a shin injury maintained 11 September 2010 in a Bundesliga suit against Hannover 96.
International career
Ballack translating a punishment for Germany at the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup in a suit against Australia
On 26 March 1996, Ballack debuted for the national U21 team against Denmark, soon afterwards signing for Chemnitz. In all, he played 19 suits for this side, scoring four goals. Then, chasing his shift to Kaiserslautern, national bus Berti Vogts paged him upward to the senior team.
Ballack's first arrival, however, did not come until 28 April 1999, as shortly as he came on as a substitute for Dietmar Hamann in a suit against Scotland.
Ballack merely played 63 minutes at the UEFA Euro 2000 championship. In the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he scored in suits against the United States and South Korea during the knock-out circles as Germany arrived the final. However, he was reserved for a tactical foul during the semi-final suit against South Korea and was suspended for the final which Germany went on to lose 2–0 to Brazil. He was included in the World Cup All Star Team.
Following the UEFA Euro 2004 championship, Jürgen Klinsmann displaced Rudi Völler at the helm of the national team and Ballack took across from Oliver Kahn as captain.
In the 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was unable to begin in Germany's first game against Costa Rica due to a calf strain, but emerged in the chasing five matches. Germany was eliminated in the semi-finals, but they handled to clinch 3rd position in a suit against Portugal. He was dubbed Man of the Match in the sport against Ecuador and Argentina, and was included in FIFA's World Cup All Star Team for a second consecutive time.
On six February 2008, Ballack played his first suit since returning from injury in a 3–0 friendly win across Austria.
Ballack began and captained Germany's first game of the UEFA Euro 2008 championship against Poland. He proved to be an influential figure in the midfield as Germany came rear from a horrify defeat to Croatia to produce it to the final, scoring a adrift kick against Austria to lock Germany a 1–0 win and a position in the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, he scored a controversial header against Portugal to produce the score 3–1 in their 3–2 win afterwards an contribute via Bastian Schweinsteiger's 60th tiny adrift kick, facilitating Germany to improve to the semi-finals. Germany went on to defeat Turkey 3–2 in the semifinals. Prior to the final, Ballack maintained a calf injury but finally overcame it in time. However, Germany ended upward losing 1–0 to Spain. Nevertheless, he was dubbed in the Team of the Tournament.
Ballack can boast that, dating rear to June 2005, Germany has never no where a game as shortly as he has scored. He scored 4 targets in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. However, he missed the 2010 FIFA World Cup chasing a foul via Kevin-Prince Boateng in the FA Cup Final that caused an ankle injury. Boateng is a prior Germany U21 actor and half-brother of prevailing German global Jérôme Boateng. Kevin-Prince Boateng went on to play for Ghana against the German team in the World Cup team stages
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