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Daniel Van Buyten
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Van Buyten
Date of birth	February 7, 1978 (age 29)
Place of birth	Chimay, Belgium
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 96 kg (211 lb)
Playing position	Central Defender
Club information
Current club	Bayern Munich
Number	5
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-1999 1999-2002 2002-2004 2004 2004-2006 2006-	Charleroi Standard Liege Olympique Marseille Manchester City Hamburg Bayern Munich	19 (1) 57 (7) 76 (12) 5 (0) 61 (7) 25 (2)
National team
2002-	Belgium	22 (3)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17 March, 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Daniel Van Buyten (born February 7, 1978 in Belgium) is a Belgian international footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich, following a June 2006 transfer from Hamburger SV.

His father Franz was a popular catcher/wrestler in Europe from 1960 to 1980. His mother Renate is german. In the 2003-04 season Van Buyten, then of Olympique Marseille, had a short term loan spell in England with Manchester City but did not make a full time move to the Premiership. In June of 2006, Bayern Munich announced it had acquired Van Buyten from Bundesliga rival Hamburg, and signed him to a contract lasting through the 2009-10 season.

Contents 1 Bayern Munich 2 In Europe 3 Victim of Bank Theft 4 Club Stats 5 External links

Van Buyten has had a highly successful first season at the Bavarian club, forming a formidable Centre-Back partnership with Brazilian Lucio. Van Buyten scored his first goal for Bayern Munich against Energie Cottbus on 9 December 2006. Bayern ran out 2-1 winners and it was Van Buyten's goal which secured the win. Van Buyten then scored his second goal for the club in the loss to Borussia Dortmund. However, arguably, Van Buyten's most valuable contribution came against AC Milan on 3 April 2007, in the quarter-final of the Champions League. Van Buyten scored two priceless, late away goals to level the scores at 2-2 and giving Bayern Munich the advantage in the tie. The two close range efforts doubled his tally to 4 goals for the season.

In the first leg of the 2006-2007 UEFA Champions League quarter-final encounter against AC Milan at the San Siro, he scored twice with his left foot, once in the 78th minute to take Bayern to 1-1. Then, right at the death, with seconds before the final whistle, he scored a stoppage time half volley that whipped past Milan keeper Dida to restore parity between the sides after a controversial penalty converted by Kaka on a foul by Lucio in the 84th minute. This takes his tally to 3 total UEFA Champions League goals. He scored one for Marseille in 2003 against Real Madrid and has scored a crucial double against the Rossoneri.

Whilst he was with Manchester City, he, along with players Djamel Belmadi and Vicente Vuoso, was the victim of a theft by two bankers. In total the bank workers stole more than £350,000 from the accounts of the three players.

In January 2006[1][2], the bank workers, Paul Sherwood, a cashier, and Paul Hanley, his supervisor, were jailed for 32 months and 12 months respectively.

All-Time Club Performance

Club	Season	Domestic League		Domestic Cup		European Competition		Total
		App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Bayern Munich	06-07	20	4	3	0	7	2	30	6
Total		20	2	3	0	6	0	29	2
Hamburger SV	05-06	27	2	3	1	10	2	40	5
	04-05	34	5
Total		59	7
Manchester City	03-04	5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
Total		5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
Olympique Marseille	03-04	18	2
	02-03	35	8
	01-02	23	2
Total		76	12
Standard Liège	00-01	29	4
	99-00	28	3
Total		57	7
Charleroi	98-99	19	1					19	1
Total		19	1
Career Totals		231	29

• Daniel Van Buyten career stats at Soccerbase

FC Bayern Munich - Current Squad
1 Kahn | 2 Sagnol | 3 Lúcio | 5 Van Buyten | 6 Demichelis | 7 Scholl | 8 Karimi | 10 Makaay | 11 Podolski | 14 Pizarro | 17 van Bommel | 18 Görlitz | 20 Salihamidžić | 21 Lahm | 22 Rensing | 23 Hargreaves | 24 Santa Cruz | 25 Ismaël | 29 Dreher | 30 Lell | 31 Schweinsteiger | 32 Hummels | 33 Kraft | 36 Fürstner | 37 Saba | 39 Ottl | Coach: Hitzfeld

	Belgium squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 De Vlieger | 2 Deflandre | 3 De Boeck | 4 Van Meir | 5 Van Kerckhoven | 6 Simons | 7 Wilmots | 8 Goor | 9 Sonck | 10 Walem | 11 Verheyen | 12 Van Der Heyden | 13 Vandendriessche | 14 Vermant | 15 Peeters | 16 Van Buyten | 17 Englebert | 18 Vanderhaeghe | 19 Thijs | 20 Strupar | 21 Boffin | 22 Mpenza | 23 Herpoel | Coach: Waseige