Michael Ballack (48) has been in a relationship with Sophia Schneiderhahn (24) since 2022. His sweetheart is an influencer with 126,000 followers. You might think that she often uses her celebrity boyfriend for her content, but that’s not the case. There are one or two photos together.
Birthday love
The model published a photo for his birthday on September 26th and wrote: “I love you.” Since the relationship became public, the rumor mill has been simmering and there have been reports that Sophia is the ex-girlfriend of Michael Ballack’s late son Emilio (†18). The young man died in a quad bike accident in Portugal in August 2021. The tragedy hit the ex-national player and his ex-wife Simone Ballack as well as their two other sons Louis (23) and Jordi (19) hard. No wonder stories like this hurt
Michael Ballack threatens to get a lawyer
And so Michael Ballack felt compelled to warn everyone who would spread such a rumor. “Current media reports have forced me to make the following clarification: My partner Sophia is neither the ex-girlfriend of my late son, nor was she friends with him,” it said on Instagram and then the corresponding warning for the media came straight away. “We will take legal action against these falsehoods and ask that our privacy be respected.”
With this warning, the rumors have now fallen silent and Michael Ballack and Sophia Schneiderhahn are moving on with their lives – he works on television as a football expert and she has just brought nutritional supplements onto the market.
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