Andreas Ottl

Andreas Ottl (born 1 March 1985 in Munich) is a Germany association football who plays as a Midfielder Defensive midfielder for FC Bayern Munich. Andreas Ottl signed Andreas Ottl first professional contract on 1 July 2005. Andreas Ottl also plays for Germany national under-21 football team. Andreas Ottl is at present one of the only four Munich natives in the Bayern Munich squad, alongside Philipp Lahm, Christian Lell and Stephan Fürstner. Ottl is a highly versatile player being able to play various midfield positions as well as playing as a Defender (association football).

Profile

Ottl started playing football for the Munich-based football club SV Nord Lerchenau. Since 1996 Andreas Ottl played for different junior teams of FC Bayern Munich. In 2002 Hermann Gerland, coach of the Bayern Munich reserves team, nominated Andreas Ottl to play in the Fußball-Regionalliga (third division). As Ottl was one of the key players of the third division team, Andreas Ottl was given the chance to play for the senior team. Ottl is now the sixth player of the Bayern Munich Junior Team who is currently featured in the Bundesliga squad after signing professional forms on 1 July 2005, a first full-time contract for the youngster thus following in the footsteps of Bastian Schweinsteiger, Owen Hargreaves and company. The versatile defensive midfielder will continue to amass match practice with the reserves where Andreas Ottl has been a regular for two seasons and collected third division south championship honours in 2004. Andreas Ottl scored Andreas Ottl first goal against FC Kaiserslautern.

Honours

- German U-17 youth championship: 2001
- German U-19 youth championship: 2002 and 2004
- German third division south championship: 2004
- Bundesliga (football): 2006, 2008
- German Cup: 2006, 2008
- Liga-Pokal: 2007

Club career

As of: 15 May, 2009