Heinz Müller

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Heinz Müller
Personal information
Full name Heinz Müller
Date of birth May 30, 1978 (1978-05-30) (age 30)
Place of birth    Frankfurt, Germany
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Barnsley
Number 22
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1997-2000
2000-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2007
2007-		 Hannover
Bielefeld
St. Pauli
Regensburg
Odd Grenland
Lillestrøm
Barnsley		 09 (0)
01 (0)
16 (0)
04 (0)
07 (0)
42 (0)
28 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 12:45, 9 February 2008 (UTC).
* Appearances (Goals)

Heinz Müller (born 30 May 1978 in Frankfurt, Hesse) is a German football goalkeeper who currently plays for Barnsley in The Football League Championship.

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[edit] Club Career

He started his first-team career with German amateur club FSV Frankfurt in the summer of 1996 and went on to transfer to then Regionalliga Nord side Hannover 96 after one season.

He subsequently spent four seasons at the club as the second-choice keeper and managed a total of eight appearances in the Second Bundesliga over three seasons following the club's promotion to the second division in 1998. He transferred to Arminia Bielefeld in the summer of 2001, but only managed one Second Bundesliga appearance in one season and a half with the club.

In January 2003, he moved to FC St. Pauli and was their first-choice keeper until the end of the 2002-03 season, managing a total of 16 Second Bundesliga appearances. The club was, however, relegated to the third division at the end of the season and he went on to move to then newly promoted Second Bundesliga side Jahn Regensburg for the 2003-04 season, but managed only four Second Bundesliga appearances for the club at the beginning of the season in August 2003.

He subsequently transferred to Norwegian club Odd Grenland in the summer of 2004 and played there until the end of the year before moving to Lillestrøm in January 2005. He then moved to Barnsley on a three-year contract in August 2007.[1]

Ever since he joined Barnsley, he has put a number of superb performances including notable ones versus Preston North End and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In January 2008, Muller suffered a horrific injury to the lateral meniscus that could potentially keep him out for up to a year. However, during that match, he still played in goal, mostly on one leg and kept a clean sheet agianst Colchester United.


[edit] International Career

He has been capped 14 times for various German youth national teams.

[edit] Hounours

[edit] Flag of Norway Norway

Lillestrøm SK (2005-2007)

[edit] Trivia

  • In a Norwegian commercial, Müller saves three high shots, blindfolded. It looks impressive, though the ball is computer-generated. A Daily Mail article goes on to describe the player as "57 varieties of wonderful" in reference to the slogan of the processed food company Heinz.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Barnsley swoop for German keeper", BBC Sport, 2007-08-09. Retrieved on 2007-08-12. 
  2. ^ "The Barnsley keeper who's so good he can save penalties BLINDFOLDED", Daily Mail, 2007-12-14. Retrieved on 2007-12-15. 

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