Timo Scheunemann

Timo Scheunemann

Scheunemann in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Timo Scheunemann
Date of birth	(1973-11-29) 29 November 1973 (age 50)
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

Timo Scheunemann (born 29 November 1973) is an Indonesian-born German football coach and manager. ^{[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.

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 immigrant German parents.^{[ citation needed ]}

He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from The Master's University.

Football career

Playing career

Scheunemann 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

Scheunemann 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

Scheunemann 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 under-20 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.

References

1. "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.
2. "Timo Scheunemann - Biodata". www.bola.net (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2020-09-08.
3. "Profil Claudia Alexandra Scheunemann, Pemain 14 Tahun Keturunan Jerman yang Jadi Bintang Timnas Putri Indonesia" (in Indonesian). 9 July 2023.

External links

• Timo Scheunemann at IMDb
• Profil Timo Scheunemann
• CV Timo Scheunemann