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.

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

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

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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

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Playing career

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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

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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

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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 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

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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

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Year Title Role Notes
2023 Lara Ati 2 Frederick Hoffman

References

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  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 8 September 2020.
  3. ^ "Profil Claudia Alexandra Scheunemann, Pemain 14 Tahun Keturunan Jerman yang Jadi Bintang Timnas Putri Indonesia" (in Indonesian). 9 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Timo Scheunemann". IMDb. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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