[7] Scholl repeatedly suffered injuries throughout his career, preventing him from maintaining a regular spot on the national team and eventually prompting him to retire from the national team prior to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, making him one of Germany's most successful players never to have played in a World Cup.

Before the 2006 World Cup Campaign, more than 100,000 people signed an online petition, "Mehmet für Deutschland",[8] to persuade Jürgen Klinsmann to include Scholl in the German squad.

In July 2009 he was appointed as permanent manager of Bayern II and left the team on 30 June 2010 for a year, working on his coaching licence.

[12] In January 2013, Scholl announced that he would leave the team at the end of the 2012–13 season because he wanted to focus on his job as a TV pundit and that it conflicted with his work as coach.

The first volume includes songs by The Beta Band, Sportfreunde Stiller, Jimmy Eat World, and The Notwist (complete track list[14]) among others.

The second volume includes songs by Oasis, Wir sind Helden, and The Flaming Lips (complete track list[15]) to name a few.

Once a month, he co-presents the feature Mehmets Schollplatten[16] in the program Nachtmix of the Bayern 2 radio station, which is the culturally oriented channel of the federal public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk.

He was widely criticized for this quote because most people did not understand his point that here might be no trees left in the near future, thereby giving his statement an ironic touch.