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Timo Scheunemann (born 29 November 1973) is a German football coach and actor.[1][2] He is also a former professional football forward. He used to play professionally in Indonesia's Liga Indonesia and Singapore's S-League and was one of the coaches of the Indonesia women's national football team and Persema Malang. 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.
 Scheunemann in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Timo Scheunemann | ||
| Date of birth | 29 November 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Kediri, Indonesia | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Persik Kediri | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1996 | The Master's College | ||
| 1997 | Persiba Balikpapan | ||
| 1998 | Tampines Rovers | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1999 | Los Angeles Soccer Club | ||
| 2000–2006 | Wesley International School | ||
| 2006–2007 | Fussbal Ausbildung Centrum | ||
| 2007–2010 | Wesley International School | ||
| 2000–2010 | Malang Football Club | ||
| 2007 | Persikoba Batu (technical director) | ||
| 2008 | Indonesia Women | ||
| 2010–2011 | Persema Malang | ||
| 2017 | Persiba Balikpapan | ||
| 2022 | Nusantara United (technical director) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
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
editScheunemann was born in Indonesia to expatriate immigrant German parents.[citation needed]
He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from The Master's University.
Football career
editPlaying career
editScheunemann started his career at the youth level with Persik Kediri, and started his senior career in the US collegiate system with The Master's College in NCCAA division I in 1993. Upon graduation in 1997, he played for Persiba Balikpapan, as their first foreign player ever. After a year, he continues to play in S-League with Tampines Rovers. By the end of the year 1998, he was invited for trials at Eintracht Frankfurt, Stuttgarter Kickers (in Germany) and Gillingham in England.
Coaching career
editScheunemann started coaching at Wesley International School and Malang Football Club, both in Malang. 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 Persema Malang.
Personal life
editScheunemann currently lives in Batu, East Java as well as maintaining a residence in Dau, Malang Regency 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.[3]
A German but born in post-independence Indonesia to expatriate cum immigrant parents from Germany, he is a native speaker of German 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 Malang 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
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Tendangan dari Langit | Himself | Concurrently choreographer for the Persema team |
| 2013 | Soekarno | Liutenant Colonel C. van den Hoogenband | |
| 2016 | Rudy Habibie | Pastor Gilbert | |
| 2017 | Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 | Philip | |
| 2018 | Belok Kanan Barcelona | Gunter | |
| Hanum & Rangga: Faith & the City | Philipus Brown | ||
| 2019 | Yowis Ben 2 | Cak Jim | |
| Say I Love You | Teacher | ||
| 2022 | Lara Ati | Frederick Hofmann |
Series web
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Lara Ati 2 | Frederick Hoffman |
References
edit- ^ "Jerman Klumutan di Bhumi Arema". Malang Post (in Indonesian). 10 November 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
Dikenal sangat Indonesianist, meski pria kelahiran Pare, Kabupaten Kediri, 29 November 1973 tersebut, masih memegang status WNA Jerman-nya.
- ^ "Timo Scheunemann - Biodata". www.bola.net (in Indonesian). Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ "Profil Claudia Alexandra Scheunemann, Pemain 14 Tahun Keturunan Jerman yang Jadi Bintang Timnas Putri Indonesia" (in Indonesian). 9 July 2023.
- ^ "Timo Scheunemann". IMDb. Retrieved 6 March 2021.