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 78,800 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Fritz Szepan is the 1,581st most popular soccer player (up from 1,593rd in 2019), the 3,619th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,656th in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Fritz Szepan ranks 1,581 out of 21,273. Before him are Giora Spiegel, Paco Bienzobas, Jorge Olguín, Marcelo Brozović, Joaquim Rifé, and Carlos Riolfo. After him are Julian Draxler, Valery Voronin, Arsenio Iglesias, Joseph-Antoine Bell, Adrián Escudero, and Stéphane Chapuisat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fritz Szepan ranks 188. Before him are Benny Carter, Roger Vailland, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Paul Magloire, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, and Edwige Feuillère. After him are Germaine Tillion, Polina Osipenko, Volmari Iso-Hollo, Jack Albertson, Günter Eich, and Peggy Ashcroft. Among people deceased in 1974, Fritz Szepan ranks 128. Before him are Sergey Lebedev, Sattar Bahlulzade, Bud Abbott, Lev Knipper, Edward Condon, and Sucheta Kriplani. After him are Manuel A. Odría, Willem Marinus Dudok, Anna Q. Nilsson, Adolph Gottlieb, Holger Meins, and Berdi Kerbabayev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Szepan ranks 3,619 out of 7,253. Before him are Markus Merk (1962), Winfried Kretschmann (1948), Johann Walter (1496), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), Princess Caroline Reuss of Greiz (1884), and Hermann Prey (1929). After him are Julian Draxler (1993), Adolf III of Holstein (1160), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), ATB (1973), Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1756).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Fritz Szepan ranks 119. Before him are Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Uwe Bein (1960), Klaus Toppmöller (1951), Stanislaus Kobierski (1910), Horst Blankenburg (1947), and Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1947). After him are Julian Draxler (1993), Dieter Herzog (1946), Leroy Sané (1996), André Schürrle (1990), Bernhard Klodt (1926), and Reinhard Libuda (1943).

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