Bayern Munich Goalkeeper And Captain Manuel Neuer Love Life And Relationship (Updated)

The professional footballer aroused rumors after his relationship with his girlfriend, Anika Bissel, went public. In essence, it is said that his girlfriend is a handball player who began playing at the age of 10 for HC Erlangen’s youth team.

According to her handball website, she had previously attempted vaulting, track and field, and tennis. Bissel moved to the Baden-Württemberg club SG H2Ku Herrenberg in the second level in 2019 after proving herself in the women’s squad of the Bayernliga.

The left winger scored 39 goals for Herrenberg in their debut season of 2019–2020, which was cut short owing to the season’s conclusion.

Moreover, Bissel changed teams for the 2021–2022 season, playing in the competitive second tier that ESV Regensburg promoted. Her contract is valid through 2022.

In addition to playing for the Kuties handball team, the blonde also goes to college in Munich for fashion management.

Like Anika, her brother Christopher is also a handball player for HC Erlangen in Germany’s premier league, with both siblings operating on the left wing. Anika Bissel’s mother, Ute Bissel, works in the office at the HCE, and her father, Carsten Bissel, is the chairman of the HCE’s supervisory board.

People first noticed Manuel and Anika’s significant age disparity when rumors about them started circulating back in 2020.

In fact, Manuel, who was 34 at the time, was 15 years older than Anika, who was 19 at the time. In contrast, the handball player is 21 years old, and the Bayern Munich goalkeeper is 36 as of 2022.

Her biography states that she was born on June 11, 2000, and currently resides in München.

On the other hand, Neuer was in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany, on March 27, 1986.

Four months after Manuel’s split with his wife, Nina, the goalkeeper made headlines with his new teenage girlfriend, Anika Bissel, according to The Sun.

Basically, their relationship speculation started in May 2020, when numerous news websites published articles about the courting details. The Bayern Munich star has made no comments regarding his alleged relationship with Anika.

Furthermore, he hasn’t posted any images of the couple together that would demonstrate their relationship. On the other hand, Anika, who uses the Instagram handle @akinalessib, has kept her account in private mode.

Similarly, his teenage lover is remarkably similar to his ex-wife, Nina.

Despite having her own apartment, Anika spends as much time as she can at the footballer’s opulent home, according to popular people magazine Bunte.

The goalkeeper officially exchanged vows with then-wife Nina Weiss before he was rumored to have a relationship with his teenage girlfriend, Anika.

Although she competes at a low level, his ex-wife, Nina Sophie Weiss, is a professional dressage rider and frequently uploads images of herself competing and practicing on Instagram.

A brown stallion named Don Darius, whom Nina calls Don for short, and a stallion named Eliott are the two horses she rides in competitions.

She primarily participates in local competitions but has also previously participated in the Under-25 German Grand Prix, where she earned a respectable seventh-place result.

In Russia for the World Cup, when the defending champions Germany had their poorest performance since the 1930s, Nina, coached by German international rider Benjamin Werndl, was in attendance.

For the first time since 1938, Mannschaft placed last in Group F and was eliminated. Manuel and Neuer traveled to Ibiza for a lengthy vacation following that humiliating World Cup loss.

On the Pershing Sensation 72, a hired boat, they were seen cruising off the shore. The luxury vessel sleeps up to seven people and costs £50,000 per week to rent; for the Bayern Munich goalkeeper, who makes about three times that amount per week, it is a drop in the Med.

The Couple Exchanged Vows After Three Years Of Dating

After the first meeting, it took the pair about a year to make things official at the end of 2015. However, Neuer proposed during the 2016 holiday season, and the couple wed in June of the following year.

There were two sections to the opulent wedding, the first in Tannheim, Austria, where vows were signed. After that, the Neuers spent some time at the Hotel Jungbrunn, where Manuel frequently stays.

Marcel Gutheinz, a buddy who was previously seen with Neuer during Oktoberfest, is the inn’s proprietor. After completing the procedures in Austria, the wedding party traveled to the charming town of Monopoli in Southern Italy.

Due to his metatarsal injury, which caused him to miss nearly a year of football, Neuer was sadly still using crutches for the ceremony. Per The Sun, the duo spent their honeymoon in the Maldives.

The couple, who had been together for six years total—three years as a dating couple and three years as a married couple—ended their relationship in 2020.

They separated in the early months of 2020, possibly just before their fourth wedding anniversary. Although the reason for their divorce is unknown, Manuel reportedly started dating his young girlfriend Anika four months after he separated from his wife.

Before their wedding, the goalkeeper reportedly went to check on the progress of his portrait when he ran into Nina Weiss, who, according to German gossip magazines, was employed at the museum.

Evidently, they decided which eyes would go on the wax sculpture, and the rest is history. Moreover, her father said Nina didn’t know who Manuel was when they first met.

Manuel first dated his former girlfriend, Kathrin Gilch; the duo was spotted holidaying on Mykonos Island in 2014. 

During that time, the Bayern Munich goalkeeper took time to pose for photos with admirers, who had already recognized him around the island.

When Neuer first met Nina in November 2014, he was still dating his ex-girlfriend, Kathrin Gilch; however, it’s unclear whether Nina influenced their breakup.