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

In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from The Master's University.

Football Career

Playing career 
Scheunemann starts his career at youth level with Persik Kediri, and started his senior career in 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 in 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 were blessed with two children namely Naya and Brandon, a footballer. 

He also has a niece named Claudia, also a footballer that plays for the women’s under-20 national team.

An Indonesian national of German ancestry 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

External links
 
 Profil Timo Scheunemann
 CV Timo Scheunemann

1973 births
Living people
German men's footballers
Indonesian men's footballers
German football managers
Indonesian people of German descent
German expatriate men's footballers
Indonesian expatriate men's footballers
Persiba Balikpapan players
Tampines Rovers FC players
Indonesian Premier Division players
Singapore Premier League players
Indonesian football managers
Liga 1 (Indonesia) managers
Persiba Balikpapan managers
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia
German expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Expatriate men's footballers in Singapore
German expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
Indonesian expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
Expatriate football managers in Indonesia
Indo people
Men's association football forwards
People from Kediri (city)
Sportspeople from East Java