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Ottmar Hitzfeld

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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 827,178 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Ottmar Hitzfeld is the 31st most popular coach (up from 32nd in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from Germany (up from 713th in 2019) and the 6th 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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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 31 out of 328. Before him are Arrigo Sacchi, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Otto Rehhagel, Jürgen Klopp, Ernst Happel, and Fatih Terim. After him are Marcelo Bielsa, Óscar Tabárez, Dušan Ivković, Diego Simeone, Leo Beenhakker, and Michael Laudrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 43. Before him are Linda Lovelace, Don Johnson, Amin Maalouf, Philippe Petit, Jarosław Kaczyński, and George Foreman. After him are John Belushi, Lionel Richie, Bill Nighy, Joachim Sauer, Tom Waits, and Billy Joel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 666 out of 6,142. Before him are August Macke (1887), John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595), Erich Mielke (1907), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), and Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860). After him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (1722), Walter Scheel (1919), George, King of Saxony (1832), Gustav Heinemann (1899), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1174), and Ludwig Stumpfegger (1910).

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Among COACHES In Germany

Among coaches born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 6. Before him are Jupp Heynckes (1945), Sepp Maier (1944), Joachim Löw (1960), Otto Rehhagel (1938), and Jürgen Klopp (1967). After him are Bernd Schuster (1959), Ralf Rangnick (1958), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Matthias Sammer (1967), Pierre Littbarski (1960), and Andreas Köpke (1962).

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