Malik Tillman

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Malik Tillman
Personnel
birthday May 28, 2002
place of birth Nuremberg ,  Germany
size 186 cm
position Sturm , midfield
Juniors
Years station
ASV Zirndorf
0000–2015 SpVgg Greuther Fürth
2015– FC Bayern Munich
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2020– FC Bayern Munich II 8 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016 USA U15 2 (0)
2017 Germany U15 1 (0)
2018 Germany U16 3 (0)
2018-2019 Germany U17 11 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of June 21, 2020

Malik Tillman (born May 28, 2002 in Nuremberg ) is a German soccer player . He can be used variably in all positions on the offensive as well as in midfield ; now he mostly acts as a center forward . Like his brother Timothy , who is three years older , he played in the youth of SpVgg Greuther Fürth . When he was signed by Bayern Munich , Malik also moved to Munich. There he has been playing for the amateur team of FC Bayern in the 3rd division since June 2020. At the national team level, he first ran for the USA, his father's country of birth, before he decided on the teams of the DFB .

Athletic career

society

Malik Tillman was born in Nuremberg to a German mother and an American, member of the US armed forces . The parents separated early and the mother raised both Malik and his three-year-old brother Timothy from then on alone. The mother lived with her sons in Fürth and, like his brother, Malik also started playing club football at ASV Zirndorf just outside the city. Malik later played, like his brother, in the youth of SpVgg Greuther Fürth. After the now 16-year-old Timothy had played himself in the field of view of the big German clubs, he not only switched to FC Bayern Munich in the summer of 2015, the mother also got a job in Munich and Malik from then on also played in the youth team of FC Bavaria.

In the U14, the younger of the two C-youth teams in Munich, he now played against U15 teams under the direction of the former Austrian national player Harald Cerny , was mostly in the starting line-up, but was also often substituted. In the course of the season in the C-Junioren-Bayernliga Süd, Tillman met only once in the opposing goal, mostly playing in a central position, and only took one place in the midfield of the table with the team. Without coach Cerny, whose contract had not been renewed, Malik Tillman played the following season with the U15, the older C-youth of FC Bayern, a division higher in the C-Junior Regionalliga Süd. There Tillman met more often, a total of nine times, and became team captain over the course of the season . However, the team lagged significantly behind the southern German competition, especially the superior champions VfB Stuttgart . In the course of the spring, Tillman moved up to the U16, for which he played only a few games. From summer 2017, he had just turned 15 and was already an integral part of the central midfield of the U17s in the B-Junior Bundesliga . With three goals this season, he helped FC Bayern with coach Holger Seitz to finish first in the south / south-west season just ahead of VfB Stuttgart and thus qualify for the final round of the German B-Junior Championship . In the semifinals, RB Leipzig were shown the limits, but the final against Borussia Dortmund with his 13-year-old “child prodigy” Youssoufa Moukoko was lost 3-2 in his own place .

In the following season , Tillman ran under the new coach Miroslav Klose initially for the U17, now as captain and with a much more offensive role than in the previous season. He scored 12 goals in 14 league games, but in the spring, when he was still 16, he often played for the U19s in the A-Juniors Bundesliga . With the U17 he was again in the final round of the German B-Junior Championship , but already in the semifinals 1. FC Köln proved to be too strong.

In the summer of 2019, Tillman finally moved up to the A-Juniors and, due to his meanwhile 1.86 meters and the beefy stature, played mostly as a center forward , even if he himself prefers to be in midfield , like the French world champion Paul Pogba , who he admires plays. With the U19, Tillman was also active in the UEFA Youth League . There, however, the team was eliminated in the round of 16 against Dinamo Zagreb and the team also ended the season early in the league , when the season was initially interrupted and finally canceled in March 2020 due to the corona pandemic . At the time of the cancellation, the team was top of the table and Tillman had taken first place on the top scorer list with 13 goals in 17 games.

In contrast to the youth sector, however, the season in the professional sector continued from May and after Tillman had already played test matches in the men's sector in winter for the professional team as well as for the amateurs of FC Bayern playing in the 3rd division , he ran from the 9th June regularly as a center forward for the amateur team, which serves as a U23 team to introduce young players to the professional squad. In front of a ghost game backdrop , Tillman was usually in the starting eleven and scored five goals in six appearances - all five goals were decisive for the game, such as the two goals in the 3-2 win in Mannheim , the two goals in the 2-1 win in Jena and the winner at 2: 1 against local rivals from Grünwalder Strasse . In August 2020, Tillman was in the matchday squad for the second leg of the Champions League second leg against Chelsea FC and then traveled with the team to the final tournament in Lisbon and was therefore Champions League winner.

National team

Due to the nationality of his parents, Malik Tillman is eligible to play in the youth field for the national teams of both countries. Shortly after his 14th birthday, he played his first international matches for the U15 national team of the USA in June 2016 in two games in a tournament in the Croatian capital Zagreb . In the very first minute of his first game, he did the preparatory work for the 1-0 winning goal of the later Dortmund player Giovanni Reyna against the U16 selection of Montenegro . However, it remained his only appearances for national teams of the US Football Association . His next international match only followed a year later, when he appeared for the German U15 in the Netherlands in May 2017, shortly before his 15th birthday . The next international appearances followed in the spring of 2018, three in number for the German U16 selection , before he continued in the U17 of the DFB from September . With the team, he laboriously qualified for the U17 European Championship in Ireland in May 2019 , where he was eliminated with the team in the preliminary round and thus missed the qualification for the World Cup in Brazil . He also played his last international match at the European Championship.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Youngster of the Week: Tragic Bayern hero Tillman , eurosport.de, May 23, 2017, accessed on June 21, 2020
  2. ↑ Criticism of Bayern transfer: "Because the mind fails " , eurosport.de, January 27, 2016, accessed on June 21, 2020
  3. ↑ Final table of the C-Junioren-Bayernliga Süd 2015/16 , bfv.de, accessed on June 21, 2020. Malik Tillman can be found in the expandable scorer list below the table together with numerous other players in 81st place.
  4. ↑ Final table of the C-Junioren-Regionalliga Süd 2016/17 , bfv.de, accessed on June 21, 2020. Note: The BFV only listed the players of the Bavarian clubs in the list of goalscorers.
  5. ↑ The greatest young talents in the world: Malik Tillman , abseits.at, May 3, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020
  6. ↑ Tillman: "My playing style is similar to that of Pogba!" , Sportbild.bild.de, December 28, 2019, accessed on June 21, 2020
  7. ↑ Bayern are subject to the test match in Nuremberg , fcbayern.com, January 11, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020
  8. ↑ Amateurs with a second draw in the second test game , fcbayern.com, January 15, 2020, accessed on June 21, 2020
  9. ↑ 4: 1 against Chelsea: Penalty paves Bayern the way to the quarter-finals , kicker.de, August 8, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020.
  10. ↑ U16: Minimalan poraz od Amerikaaca , fscg.me (website of the Montenegrin Football Association ), June 2, 2016, accessed on June 21, 2020 (Montenegrin)
  11. ↑ Match report on transfermarkt.de , accessed on June 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Tillman, Malik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg