Sven Scheuer (born 19 January 1971) is a German former professional

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who played as a

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Club career

Scheuer was born in

Böblingen Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was found ...

. He joined

FC Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which play ...

in 1988, and spent 11 years with the club, serving as backup goalkeeper to Raimond Aumann until 1994 and later Oliver Kahn. He usually shared this role with another 'keeper, including

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(1991–1994), Michael Probst (1994–1996) and

Bernd Dreher Bernd Dreher (born 2 November 1966) is a German former professional football player, who played as a goalkeeper, and a current goalkeeper coach. He last worked at Ludogorets Razgrad. Career Dreher originally retired in summer 2003, taking up th ...

(1996–1999). He made 20 appearances in the

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, half of which came in the 1994–95 season, and won five league titles, plus the

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and the DFB Pokal in

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. He also played regularly for Bayern's reserve team, in the Oberliga Bayern and Regionalliga Süd. After leaving Bayern, Scheuer embarked on a fairly nomadic career, playing for Adanaspor in

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Grazer AK Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (''Steiermark''). The football section used to be on ...

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, and

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and

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back home. He also had an unsuccessful trial with Crystal Palace in 2002.

International career

Scheuer played one match for the Germany under-21 national team, a 3–0 win over

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

in October 1990.

Honours

Bayern Munich *

: 1988–89, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1996–97, 1998–99 *

: 1995–96 * DFB-Pokal: 1997–98 *

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

: runner-up 1998–99 * DFB-Ligapokal:

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References

1971 births Living people People from Böblingen Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) Association football goalkeepers German footballers Germany under-21 international footballers German expatriate footballers Bundesliga players FC Bayern Munich footballers FC Bayern Munich II players 1. FC Saarbrücken players VfL Osnabrück players Grazer AK players Adanaspor footballers Süper Lig players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Expatriate footballers in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Austria Footballers from Baden-Württemberg West German footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Turkey German expatriate sportspeople in Austria {{Germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub