Nicknamed "Little Pig", Schweinsteiger is one of the world's top midfielders and vice-captain of the team during the Lahm era, and he and Lahm have started a new dynasty for Bayern. Although not as tough and iron-blooded as their predecessors Effenberg or Kahn, he and Lahm led the team in their own way and propelled the team to another peak. This Bayern team, with Lahm, Piggy, Ribery and Robben as the core, is also considered the most gorgeous Bayern in history.
In 1998, Piggy joined the Bayern youth team, announcing the official start of a great legend. In 2002, Piggy officially started playing for the senior team. Piggy, who debuted as a right wing-back, also played as a midfielder, left wing-back and left wing-back in the following seasons, gradually developing into a jack-of-all-trades. After Ribery arrived, in order to carry out the team's strategy of taking off on both wings, the piggy was fixed in the right midfield position. However, because Piggy did not have the same breakthrough ability as Ribery, he could only tear apart the opposition defense through accurate passes, so most of the team's attacks were launched from the left side, and Schweinsteiger gradually began to be mediocre.
Robben joined the team in 2009 and started playing as a right winger. Louis van Gaal, who was the manager at the time, moved the piggy to a midfield position. This change gave Piggy a new lease of life on the pitch, and Piggy, who switched to the midfield, gave full play to the characteristics of physical energy, practical dribbling, wide vision, and accurate long passing, while he was also able to accurately grasp the situation on the field and control the tempo, which also gave the German team and Bayern a much-needed midfield playmaking core and rhythm control master. In the following seasons, as long as Piggy was not injured, he always occupied the core position of the team.
Piggy reached the pinnacle of his career in 2013 when he and his teammates blossomed in the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League, winning the treble, allowing Bayern to set and equal 22 records this season. It is worth mentioning that this also makes Bayern the first "treble" team in the history of Bundesliga football. In 2014, Piggy helped Germany win the World Cup, and he and Lahm also became one of the few team honor Grand Slam players. Especially in the World Cup final, Piggy was hit by an opponent and suffered facial bleeding, but he still insisted on playing the full 120 minutes of the game, which perfectly illustrates what true professionalism is. In 2015, Piggy, who had been in a dip in form, was no longer able to play at Bayern, so he switched to Manchester United. In his debut season at Manchester United, Piggy performed well, playing 31 games for the team. But the following season, Piggy was dropped and he had to leave Manchester United to join the Chicago Fire, where he ended his career.
During his career, he played 342 Bundesliga games for Bayern, scored 45 goals, won eight Bundesliga titles, six German Cups, two Bundesliga Cups, two German Super Cups, one Champions Cup, two Champions Cup runners-up, one UEFA Super Cup, one Club World Cup, and won one World Cup, two third places and one European Cup runner-up.