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SOCCER PLAYER

Fritz Szepan

1907 - 1974

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Friedrich "Fritz" Szepan (2 September 1907 – 14 December 1974) was a German footballer in the period leading up to and including World War II. He spent his entire career with Schalke 04 where he won six national championships and one German Cup. He is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Schalke players of all time. To celebrate the 100th birthday of the club, the supporters voted the Schalker Jahrhundertelf, the "Team of the century": he was included in the midfield. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Szepan has received more than 73,171 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Fritz Szepan is the 1,593rd most popular soccer player (down from 1,426th in 2019), the 3,665th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,229th in 2019) and the 113th most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Fritz Szepan ranks 1,593 out of 16,880Before him are Jakub Błaszczykowski, Sadok Sassi, Karlheinz Förster, Hatem Ben Arfa, Stanislaus Kobierski, and Alfred Bickel. After him are Toyohito Mochizuki, Alberto Chividini, Hidetoki Takahashi, Jim Brown, Sami Al-Jaber, and Coen Moulijn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fritz Szepan ranks 204Before him are Ilia Vekua, Jack Albertson, Giuseppe Occhialini, Luigi Beccali, Zezé Moreira, and Gordon Douglas. After him are Alberto Chividini, František Junek, Kinue Hitomi, Edmond Delfour, Amir Sjarifuddin, and Jean Langlais. Among people deceased in 1974, Fritz Szepan ranks 138Before him are Fred Kelly, Georgette Heyer, Werner Kohlmeyer, Egon Wellesz, Ned Maddrell, and Kajirō Yamamoto. After him are Harry Partch, Adolph Gottlieb, Lily Kronberger, Françoise Rosay, Edward Platt, and George Van Biesbroeck.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Szepan ranks 3,665 out of 6,142Before him are Conny Plank (1940), Georg Muche (1895), Jaki Liebezeit (1938), Robert Spaemann (1927), Alfred Bickel (1918), and Marco Rose (1976). After him are Max Lange (1832), Kim Dotcom (1974), Rudolf Wagner (1805), Sylvia Nasar (1947), Leonhard Frank (1882), and Claus Offe (1940).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Fritz Szepan ranks 113Before him are Klaus Toppmöller (1951), Julian Draxler (1993), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Karlheinz Förster (1958), Stanislaus Kobierski (1910), and Alfred Bickel (1918). After him are Hans Bauer (1927), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (1994), Leroy Sané (1996), Thorsten Fink (1967), Reinhard Libuda (1943), and Bernhard Cullmann (1949).