Andreas Ottl

Andreas Ottl (born March 1, 1985 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany) is a Germany football (soccer) who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Bayern Munich. He signed his 1st professional contract on July 1, 2005. He also plays for Germany national under-21 football team. He is at present one of the only 3 Munich natives in the Bayern Munich squad, alongside Philipp Lahm and Christian Lell. Ottl is highly versatile player being able to play Defensive Midfield as well as centre back, full back and as side midfielder.

Profile

Ottl started playing football for the Munich-based football club SV Nord Lerchenau. Since 1996 he played for different junior teams of FC Bayern Munich. In 2002 Hermann Gerland, coach of the Bayern Munich reserves team, nominated him to play in the Regionalliga (third division). As Ottl was one of the key players of the third division team, he was given the chance to play for the Bundesliga team. Ottl is now the sixth player of the Bayern Munich youth system who is currently featured in the Bundesliga squad after signing professional forms on July 1 2005, a first full-time contract for the youngster thus following in the footsteps of Bastian Schweinsteiger, Owen Hargreaves and company. The sole Munich-born player in the squad apart from Philipp Lahm and Christian Lell has his feet firmly planted on the ground, naming his initial goals as "learn, train hard and make a substitute appearance every now and then." The versatile defensive midfielder will continue to amass match practice with the reserves where he has been a regular for two seasons and collected third division south championship honours in 2004. He scored his 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
- German Championship: 2006
- German Cup 2006
- Liga-Pokal: 2007

Club career