Soccer Player

Gerd Weber

East German footballer

1956 - today

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His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gerd Weber is the 7,535th most popular soccer player, the 5,979th most popular biography from Germany and the 439th most popular German Soccer Player.

Gerd Weber won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament with the East Germany Olympic team and played 33 matches for the East Germany national team scoring 5 goals. He began his career with Dynamo Dresden in 1973 and acted as a Stasi informer from 1975 under the codename "Wiehland" delivering more than seventy reports on teammates before his January 1981 arrest ahead of a match in Argentina. After serving eleven months of a two-year-and-three-month sentence for planned illegal border crossing Weber was banned from professional football.

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Gerd Weber's biography spans 15 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 48.46.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Gerd Weber ranks 7,529 out of 24,321. Before him are Santiago Arias, Senad Lulić, Fernando, José Holebas, Mun In-guk, and Naoto Otake. After him are Tomáš Řepka, Alex Chandre de Oliveira, Kevin Kampl, José Fernández, Leo Van der Elst, and Kenichi Shimokawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Gerd Weber ranks 692. Before him are Tom Irwin, Randy Jackson, Clifton Powell, Claudio Rodriguez Fer, Chris Hedges, and Andrés Aldama. After him are Ilana Kloss, David Wolf, Zoltán Verrasztó, Arthur Japin, Fritz Fischer, and Laimutė Baikauskaitė.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerd Weber ranks 5,979 out of 8,184. Before him are Kaaren Verne (1918), Jonas Hector (1990), Eberhard Rösch (1954), José Holebas (1984), Wotan Wilke Möhring (1967), and Harald Lesch (1960). After him are Kevin Kampl (1990), Cornelia Oschkenat (1961), Odisseas Vlachodimos (1994), Wolf Blitzer (1948), John Cordts (1935), and Jonas Hofmann (1992).

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Among Soccer Players In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Gerd Weber ranks 439. Before him are Clemens Fritz (1980), Sebastian Rudy (1990), Nadiem Amiri (1996), Manuel Friedrich (1979), Jonas Hector (1990), and José Holebas (1984). After him are Kevin Kampl (1990), Odisseas Vlachodimos (1994), Jonas Hofmann (1992), Manfred Binz (1965), Mikael Forssell (1981), and Angelo Stiller (2001).

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