Mario Gómez Biography
Mario Gómez García is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for VfB Stuttgart and the Germany national team. He was brought up in nearby Unlingen, an Upper Swabian village in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany, about 100 km south of Stuttgart and 175 km west of Munich. Gómez is of German-Spanish descent; his father, José “Pepe” Gómez García, is Spanish from Albuñán, Granada, and his mother, Christel Roth, is German. He has dual citizenship and opted to play for Germany.
Mario Gómez Career
He began his professional career with VfB Stuttgart, and when they became champions in 2006–07, Gómez contributed 14 goals and 7 assists at age 21 and was selected as German Footballer of the Year. In 2009, he signed for Bayern Munich for an estimated €30–35 million, then a league record. With Bayern Munich, Gómez was the Bundesliga top scorer in 2011, and helped the team to seven honours, including the UEFA Champions League in 2013. He then left for Serie A team Fiorentina for a €20 million fee in 2013, and was affected by injury during his time in Italy. Gómez was loaned to Turkey’s Beşiktaş in 2015 and was top scorer as they won the Süper Lig, then subsequently returned to Germany by joining VfL Wolfsburg. After helping them avoid relegation in his first season, he agreed to return to VfB Stuttgart in January 2018.
Gómez played for VfB Stuttgart II in the Regionalliga Süd in the 2003–04 and 2004–05seasons. He scored six goals in 19 appearances during the 2003–04 season and 15 goals in 24 appearances in the 2004–05 season.On 9 March 2004, Gómez played ten minutes for Stuttgart in the Champions League first knock-out round against Chelsea and made his debut in the Bundesliga on 8 May, coming on for Imre Szabics in a 2–1 loss to Hamburger SV. These ended up as his only two appearances for the first team during the 2003–04 season. He would go on to make eight league appearances, one DFB-Pokal appearance, and one UEFA Cup appearance.In the 2005–06 season, Gómez joined the first team permanently. He played 30 times in the Bundesliga, scoring six times at this level. His first goal came on 17 September 2005, the winner in a 2–1 defeat of Mainz 05. Gómez also played five times in the UEFA Cup, scoring twice, and played three times in both the DFB-Pokal, and DFL-Ligapokal.
In the 2006–07 season, Gómez established himself as one of the top scorers in the Bundesliga. However, he broke his hand on 10 March 2007 and suffered a torn ligament in his left knee. He made his comeback on 12 May 2007 and immediately scored after coming on from the bench. In that match, Stuttgart defeated VfL Bochum (3–2) and went two points clear heading into the Bundesliga’s final weekend, where they won at home against Energie Cottbus, thus becoming German champions. Further, Stuttgart also reached final of the DFB-Pokal, where Gómez participated, but Stuttgart lost to 1. FC Nürnberg. He finished the season with 14 goals in 25 league appearances and two goals in five DFB-Pokal appearances. After the season, he was named German Footballer of the Year for 2007 and extended his contract at Stuttgart until 2012.
In the 2007–08 season, while the rest of his team struggled to keep performing at their 2006–07 season standards, Gómez remained at an astonishingly high level, scoring 19 goals in 25 appearances, second in the Bundesliga’s top scorer list, just behind Bayern Munich’s Luca Toni, who scored 24 times. In the DFB-Pokal, Gómez was the top scorer with six goals. Because of his development, many big clubs became interested in the then-23-year-old forward. Gómez gained the nickname “Mr. Zuverlässig” (“Mr. Reliable”), as seen in his second of three goals against Bundesliga rival Werder Bremen (final score 6–3), where he managed to net in a virtually unreachable pass by teammate Yıldıray Baştürk.
On 9 May 2009, Gómez hit four goals to inspire Stuttgart to a 4–1 victory over Bundesliga champions VfL Wolfsburg. He also had six goals in three DFB-Pokal appearances and three goals in four UEFA Champions League appearances. The 2008–09 season proved to be his last in a Stuttgart uniform, as he would transfer to Bayern Munich after the season.During the season, he would score 24 goals in 32 league appearances, three goals in two DFB-Pokal appearances, eight goals in ten UEFA Cup appearances. to bring his totals to 35 goals from 44 appearances in all competitions. On 22 December 2017, it was announced that Gómez will return to VfB Stuttgart on 1 January 2018. The fee was undisclosed. He signed a contract until June 2020.
Mario Gómez Current Teams
Mario plays as a striker for VfB Stuttgart and the Germany national team.
Mario Gomez Bayern Munich
On 26 May 2009, Gómez eventually transferred to Bayern Munich for a Bundesliga record transfer fee, signing a four-year contract. The amount of the transfer fee varies from 30–35 million euro, depending on different sources. Gómez was not scoring like his usual self in his first season for Bayern, with just ten league goals and one Champions League goal netted, but in the DFB-Pokal, he was more prolific, with three goals in just four matches. Gómez was also short in the assists column, as well. Quite surprisingly, he made an impact as he was to start the majority of matches next season for Bayern. Also in his first season, Gómez was teamed up with his German international strike partner Miroslav Klose to give him some first-team experience.
After an erratic first season at Bayern with 10 goals in 29 league appearances, Gómez established himself as a starter during the 2010–11 season (to an extent at the expense of Miroslav Klose and due to an injury sustained by Ivica Olić) and finished as top goalscorer in the Bundesliga with 28 goals. He scored his 100th Bundesliga goal with his third strike in a 1–8 away victory over FC St. Pauli on 7 May 2011, the hat-trick already being his fifth in the Bundesliga in the 2010–11 season, and his sixth overall, adding in his hat-trick against CFR Cluj in the Champions League. Gómez has scored 13 hat-tricks in his Bundesliga career, three with VfB Stuttgart and ten with Bayern. Gómez also netted eight times in the Champions League and finished in second place in the season’s top scorers, tied with Samuel Eto’o, although Bayern was eliminated in the round of 16 by Internazionale. Gómez in all competitions scored 39 goals in his second season with the Bavarian club.
Gómez started the 2011–12 season in similar style towards the previous season and he opened his league account on 20 August 2011 in Bayern’s thrashing of Hamburger SV. Seven days later, Gómez scored a hat-trick away to 1. FC Kaiserslautern. On 10 September, Gómez scored four goals in Bayern’s 7–0 rout of SC Freiburg, sealing four-straight wins for the Bavarians and a return to the top of the Bundesliga table. On 27 September, Gómez scored two first-half goals as Bayern defeated Manchester City 2–0 in the group stage of the Champions League.Gómez scored his second brace of the Bundesliga campaign against Hertha BSC when Bayern won 4–0.
Gómez then recorded another brace on 29 October when Bayern then defeated 1. FC Nürnberg 4–0. Then, on 11 December 2011, he scored his third brace of the season and sealed Bayern’s 2–1 win over southern rivals VfB Stuttgart, his former club. On 2 November 2011, he scored a hat-trick in a Champions League group stage match against Napoli. Bayern went on to win 3–2. In the DFB-Pokal, Gómez scored just two goals. On 16 December 2011, Gómez scored his 50th goal for the calendar year of 2011, against 1. FC Köln.
On 13 March 2012, the second leg of their Champions League tie against Basel, Bayern Munich overturned their 0–1 away loss as Gómez netted four of Bayern’s seven goals, firing the Bavarians through to the quarter-finals 7–1 on aggregate. In the quarter-finals, Bayern faced French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille and in the first leg on 28 March, Gómez fired in his 11th Champions League goal of the campaign in a 2–0 win for the Bavarians.On 4 April, Gómez signed a new contract with Bayern Munich, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2016. Gómez scored the winning goal in Bayern’s 2–1 victory over Real Madrid in the first leg of their semi-final clash.
Bayern went on to win the tie 3–1 on penalties after the teams were deadlocked 3–3 on aggregate. On 19 May 2012, he played in the Champions League Final against Chelsea. He failed to find the net in regular time in the game but scored in the penalty shoot-out as Bayern once again fell at the final hurdle, losing 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 finish. He finished the 2011–12 season with 26 goals in 33 league appearances, two goals in five DFB-Pokal appearances, and 13 goals in 14 Champions League appearances.
Gómez came back late to the squad, after having ankle surgery post UEFA Euro 2012. Because of his injury and the stellar performance of Croatian striker Mario Mandžukić at Euro 2012, the Croatian was signed from VfL Wolfsburg. The signing relegated Gómez to the bench and Mandžukić hit a run of form that made him the Bundesliga’s top scorer.Gómez returned to action on 20 November 2012 in the club’s 1–1 draw with Valencia in the group stage of the Champions League, coming on as a 79th minute sub for winger Franck Ribéry.The striker scored his first goal within a minute of his Bundesliga season debut, slotting home after good work from Toni Kroos, capping off a 5–0 victory over Hannover 96 on 24 November. On 5 December, Gómez opened the scoring for the hosts in their final group game of the Champions League, a 4–1 defeat of BATE Borisov which secured the Bavarians top spot in the group over Valencia.
Following the winter break, Gómez pushed for a first-team berth, scoring two goals and setting up another as Bayern cruised past Werder Bremen 6–1 on 23 February 2013. The game was coincidentally his manager Jupp Heynckes’ 1,000th game as a player and coach in the Bundesliga. The striker was a used substitute against Eintracht Frankfurt on 6 April, as a lone Bastian Schweinsteiger strike confirmed an 11th successive victory and a 23rd national title for the club, Gómez’s second with Bayern and third overall. On 16 April, in the DFB-Pokal semi-final against VfL Wolfsburg, Gómez scored a six-minute hat-trick after being subbed on in the 77th minute, rounding off a comfortable 6–1 victory and securing a spot in the final against southern rivals and former club Stuttgart.
In the club’s next league match, on 20 April, Bayern managed another 6–1 victory and Gómez recorded a second brace in four days to lift Bayern to a 26th league victory of the campaign, a new Bundesliga record. Gómez led the line in the absence of Mario Mandžukić to good effect, poking home Bayern’s second goal in their 4–0 first-leg demolition of Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Champions League on 23 April.Despite missing the better half of the first three months of the campaign, Gómez still managed 11 Bundesliga strikes, placing him as third top-scorer in the league for the club.
He made an appearance as a late substitute in Bayern’s 2–1 Champions League Final victory over German rivals Borussia Dortmund on 25 May at Wembley Stadium in London. He scored a second-half brace in the DFB-Pokal Final on 1 June as Bayern defeated Gómez’s former club Stuttgart 3–2 at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. The win secured a 16th DFB-Pokal trophy and an unprecedented league, cup and European cup treble for the Bavarians. He finished the 2012–13 season with 11 goals in 21 league appearances.On 6 June 2013, Gómez’ consultant Uli Ferber announced that it “is quite clear that he will separate from Bayern” as he had fallen behind Mario Mandžukić in the pecking order for starting striker.
On 8 July 2013, Gómez joined Serie A side Fiorentina by signing a four-year deal, for a fee believed to be around €20 million. He was officially unveiled as a Fiorentina player on 15 July, to a crowd of 20,000 people.Gómez scored his first two goals for la Viola in a 5–2 defeat of Genoa on 1 September. In the following match, a 1–1 draw with Cagliari, Gómez sustained an injury which kept him out of the team until Fiorentina’s match against Internazionale on 15 February 2014.On 13 March, Gómez scored his first European goal for Fiorentina in a 1–1 draw against Juventus in the first leg of a UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie. Three days later, he scored his first goal at the Stadio Artemio Franchi in a 3–1 win against Chievo.
On 23 March, he damaged the ligaments in his left knee in a 1–0 win at Napoli and was later ruled out for the remainder of the season by Fiorentina manager Vincenzo Montella. During the 2013–14 season, he scored three goals in nine league appearances and one goal in six Europa League appearances.Gómez scored twice in Fiorentina’s 3–1 win over Atalanta in the last 16 of the Coppa Italia on 21 January 2015, and followed this up with another brace 13 days later in a 2–0 quarter-final win away to Roma. He finished 2014–15 season with 4 goals in 20 league appearances, four goals in four Coppa Italia appearances and two goals in eight Europa League appearances.
Mario Gomez Wolfsburg
On 17 August 2016, Gómez returned to the Bundesliga to sign for VfL Wolfsburg. He scored his first goal for the club on 22 October, netting in a 3–1 defeat to Darmstadt 98. His goal was the 1,000th scored by Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. On 2 April 2017, Gómez scored his first hat-trick for the club, netting three times in seven minutes as Wolfsburg came from 2–0 down to draw 3–3 with Bayer Leverkusen. His third on the night was his 150th goal scored in the Bundesliga. He ultimately scored 16 league goals for the season as Wolfsburg narrowly avoided relegation via the relegation play-offs.After keeping his team in the top flight, Gómez signed a new contract in June 2017.In August, manager Andries Jonker named him as captain, succeeding Diego Benaglio. In his final half-season at the Volkswagen Arena, Gómez scored only once in 15 appearances.
Mario Gomez Besiktas
On 30 July 2015, Gómez agreed to a loan to Turkish club Beşiktaş on a season-long deal, with an option to buy. He made his debut on 16 August in the first match of the season, replacing man of the match Oğuzhan Özyakup for the final 17 minutes of a 5–2 win at Mersin İdmanyurdu; he and fellow new signing Ricardo Quaresma were not match-fit. His first goals came on 13 September, scoring both of a 2–0 victory against İstanbul BB at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium. Two weeks later, he added two more in a 3–2 win over another Istanbul rival, Fenerbahçe. Gómez finished his first season with Beşiktaş as the Gol Kralı, the league’s top scorer, as the club secured their first league title in seven years.
The last of his 26 goals came in a 3–1 home win over Osmanlıspor that sealed the title with one match remaining. On 20 July 2016, Gómez announced via his Facebook and Twitter accounts he would not be making his stay with Beşiktaş permanent. He cited the tense political climate in Turkey as the overriding factor in his decision to leave the club after the country was rocked by a failed coup d’état in which more than 300 people were killed.
Mario Gomez FIFA 2018
On 4 June 2018, Gómez was selected in Joachim Löw’s final 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.He will be playing for germany in the Fifa world cup 2018.
Mario Gomez Age
Mario was born on 10 July 1985 in Riedlingen, Germany.He is 32 years old.
Mario Gomez Wife
Gómez ended his nine-year relationship with Silvia Meichel on 2 October 2012. Later in December 2012 he began dating German model Carina Wanzung . The two got married on 22 July 2016.
Mario Gomez Instagram
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