Timo Scheunemann (born 29 November 1973) is an Indonesian football coach and actor. He is also a former professional

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forward. He used to play professionally in Indonesia's

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and Singapore's

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and was one of the coaches of the Indonesia women's national football team and

Persema Malang Persema, an acronym for Persatuan Sepakbola Malang is an Indonesian football club based in Malang, East Java. They currently compete in the Liga 4. History The club was officially established in 1953, with primary funding from Malang's munic ...

. In addition, he helmed the Indonesian U-12 football team during the Danone Nations Cup in 2012 and 2013 and his last managerial position was with

Persiba Balikpapan Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Balikpapan, commonly known as Persiba Balikpapan, is a professional football club based in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The club set to play in the Liga 2 from 2025–26, after promotion from Liga Nusant ...

. Outside of his footballing career, he acted as Lieutenant Colonel Hoogeband in the Indonesian film, ''Soekarno'', in which that was his sole acting appearance in the film industry.

Early life and education

Scheunemann was born in Indonesia to expatriate

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parents. He holds a

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degree from

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Football career

Playing career

Scheunemann started his career at the youth level with

Persik Kediri Persatuan sepak bola Indonesia Kediri ( ''Indonesian football association of Kediri''; abbreviated Persik Kediri) (), is an Indonesian professional football club based in Kediri, East Java, Indonesia. They currently compete in the Liga 1. Th ...

, and started his senior career in the US collegiate system with

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in NCCAA division I in 1993. Upon graduation in 1997, he played for

, as their first foreign player ever. After a year, he continues to play in

with

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. By the end of the year 1998, he was invited for trials at

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(in

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) and Gillingham in

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Coaching career

Scheunemann started coaching at Wesley International School and Malang Football Club, both in

Malang Malang (; , ), historically known as Tumapel, is an inland List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city in the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of East Java. It has a history dating back to the age of the Singhasari, Singhasari K ...

. In 2007, he was appointed technical director of Persikoba Batu. After that, he was asked to control Indonesia women's national football team for SEA Games 2009. In 2010, he was appointed as a manager for

Personal life

Scheunemann currently lives in Batu,

East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...

as well as maintaining a residence in Dau,

Malang Regency Malang Regency (Javanese script, Javanese: ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦼꦤ꧀ꦩꦭꦁ; Pegon script, Pegon: كابوڤاتين مالاڠ; Osob Kiwalan: ''ngalaM'') is the second largest Regency (Indonesia), regency in East Java, Indonesia, with a total a ...

and is currently married to Devi Scheunemann, a native Javanese woman and the couple had two children namely Naya and Brandon, a footballer. He also has a niece named Claudia, also a footballer who plays for the Indonesia women's national team. A German but born in post-independence Indonesia to expatriate cum immigrant parents from Germany, he is a native speaker of

but also speaks his adoptive country's national language of Indonesian and the local Javanese language fluently, because he spent most of his childhood as well as his adulthood in East Java province (especially in his birthplace of Kediri as well as his adoptive hometown of

alike) and also Indonesia as a whole, in which that made him fluently speaking the above two languages in addition to his own mother tongue.

Filmography

Film

Series web

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Scheunemann, Timo 1973 births Living people People from Kediri (city) Sportspeople from East Java Indonesian men's footballers Indonesian football managers German men's footballers German football managers Indonesian people of German descent German expatriate men's footballers Persiba Balikpapan players Tampines Rovers FC players Indonesian Premier Division players Singapore Premier League players Liga 1 (Indonesia) managers Persiba Balikpapan managers Expatriate men's footballers in Singapore German expatriate sportspeople in Singapore Indonesia women's national football team managers Men's association football forwards