COACH

Ottmar Hitzfeld

1949 - Today

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Ottmar Hitzfeld (German pronunciation: [ˈʔɔtmaːɐ̯ ˈhɪt͡sfɛlt]; born 12 January 1949) is a German former professional football player and a former manager. He accumulated a total of 18 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshopper Club Zürich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. A striker in his playing days, Hitzfeld won two Swiss Super League titles (1971–72, 1972–73) with Basel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ottmar Hitzfeld has received more than 817,379 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ottmar Hitzfeld is the 38th most popular coach (down from 31st in 2019), the 657th most popular biography from Germany (up from 666th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Coach.

Ottmar Hitzfeld is most famous for his coaching success with the German national team and Bayern Munich. He won the World Cup with Germany in 1990 and coached them to victory in the European Championships in 1996. He also coached Bayern Munich to a Champions League title in 2001.

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Over the past year Ottmar Hitzfeld has had the most page views in the with 129,244 views, followed by English (90,265), and Persian (20,776). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (68.14%), Malagasy (67.23%), and Simple English (64.56%)

Among COACHES

Among coaches, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 38 out of 471. Before him are Diego Simeone, Fatih Terim, Hans-Dieter Flick, Michael Laudrup, Marcelo Bielsa, and Leo Beenhakker. After him are Miroslav Blažević, Luciano Spalletti, Maurizio Sarri, Manuel Pellegrini, Jean-Pierre Papin, and Bernd Schuster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 45. Before him are Robin Gibb, Thaksin Shinawatra, Lionel Richie, Fanny Ardant, Martin Amis, and José Ramos-Horta. After him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bill Nighy, Amin Maalouf, Don Johnson, Nando Parrado, and Ruud Krol.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 657 out of 7,253. Before him are Bettina von Arnim (1785), Werner Forssmann (1904), Werner Mölders (1913), Andreas Baader (1943), Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), and Gerhard Ertl (1936). After him are Rudolf Bultmann (1884), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Ernst Otto Fischer (1918), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Werner Sombart (1863), and Maurice de Saxe (1696).

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Among COACHES In Germany

Among coaches born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 7. Before him are Jupp Heynckes (1945), Joachim Löw (1960), Sepp Maier (1944), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Otto Rehhagel (1938), and Hans-Dieter Flick (1965). After him are Bernd Schuster (1959), Pierre Littbarski (1960), Matthias Sammer (1967), Ralf Rangnick (1958), Robert Prosinečki (1969), and Andreas Köpke (1962).

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