Oliver Neuville

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Oliver Neuville
Personal information
Full name	Oliver Patric Neuville
Date of birth	May 1, 1973 (age 33)
Place of birth	Locarno, Switzerland
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	Borussia Mönchengladbach
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1996 1996-1997 1997-1999 1999-2004 2004-	Servette Tenerife Hansa Rostock Bayer Leverkusen Borussia Mönchengladbach	91 (41) 33 (5) 50 (22) 165 (42) 73 (25)
National team2
1998-	Germany	65 (9)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 October 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 15 November 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Oliver Patric Neuville (born May 1, 1973) is a Swiss-German football player. He was born of a German father and an Italian mother in Locarno, Switzerland. His name (properly pronounced in French – not German – fashion) stems from his Belgian grandfather.

Neuville started his career in his native Switzerland with Servette (1992-96). He also played in Spain for Tenerife (1996-97), before moving to Germany with Hansa Rostock (1997-99) and then on to Bayer Leverkusen (1999-2004), and Borussia Mönchengladbach (2004-).

After electing to represent Germany at international level, he played in the squad that finished second at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal in the second round against Paraguay. Since his debut against Malta on September 2, 1998, he has scored a total of nine goals from 64 international appearances.

In 2004, he scored an infamous goal with his hand against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, which was widely reviled and landed him a two-match ban.

In a first round match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup against Poland, Neuville, who came on as a substitute for Lukas Podolski, buried a desperate injury time cross from fellow sub David Odonkor past Polish goalkeeper Artur Boruc leading Germany to a 1–0 victory in the 91st minute.

[edit] Club career statistics

All-Time Club Performance

Club	Season	Domestic League		Domestic Cup		European Competition		Total
		App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Borussia Mönchengladbach	05-06	3	1			-	-	3	1
	05-06	34	10			-	-
	04-05	32	12
Total		69	23
Bayer Leverkusen	03-04	31	7
	02-03	33	4
	01-02	33	13
	00-01	34	15
	99-00	32	4
Total		163	43
Hansa Rostock	98-99	33	14
	97-98	17	8
Total		50	22
CD Tenerife	96-97
Total
Servette FC	95-96
	94-95
	93-94
	92-93
Total
Career Totals		282	88

[edit] External links

• Official Website (German)
• Leverkusen who's who (English)

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	Germany squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Third Place
1 Lehmann | 2 Jansen | 3 Friedrich | 4 Huth | 5 Kehl | 6 Nowotny | 7 Schweinsteiger | 8 Frings | 9 Hanke | 10 Neuville | 11 Klose | 12 Kahn | 13 Ballack | 14 Asamoah | 15 Hitzlsperger | 16 Lahm | 17 Mertesacker | 18 Borowski | 19 Schneider | 20 Podolski | 21 Metzelder | 22 Odonkor | 23 Hildebrand | Coach: Klinsmann

	Germany squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Kahn | 2 Linke | 3 Rehmer | 4 Baumann | 5 Ramelow | 6 Ziege | 7 Neuville | 8 Hamann | 9 Jancker | 10 Ricken | 11 Klose | 12 Lehmann | 13 Ballack | 14 Asamoah | 15 Kehl | 16 Jeremies | 17 Bode | 18 Böhme | 19 Schneider | 20 Bierhoff | 21 Metzelder | 22 Frings | 23 Butt | Coach: Völler