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Per Mertesacker

1984 - Today

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Per Mertesacker (German pronunciation: [ˈpeːɐ̯ ˈmɛɐ̯təsʔakɐ]; born 29 September 1984) is a German football coach and former professional player who played as a centre back. He is the current manager of the Arsenal Academy.Mertesacker began his senior career after being promoted from the youth ranks at Bundesliga club Hannover 96, making his senior league debut in November 2003. He was soon dubbed "the Defence Pole" ("die Abwehrlatte") by German tabloids, and gained a reputation for his exceptional disciplinary record, going 31 league games without being booked. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Per Mertesacker has received more than 2,252,468 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Per Mertesacker is the 2,050th most popular soccer player (down from 1,650th in 2019), the 3,972nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,396th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Per Mertesacker ranks 2,050 out of 16,880Before him are Dado Pršo, Paulo Sérgio, Ottavio Bianchi, Lorenzo Staelens, Zezé Procópio, and Valon Behrami. After him are Silvester Takač, Karl-Heinz Körbel, Maarten Stekelenburg, Levir Culpi, Marián Masný, and Hiroshi Ninomiya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Per Mertesacker ranks 53Before him are Stephan Lichtsteiner, Olivia Wilde, Belén Cuesta, Laverne Cox, Danijel Subašić, and Marija Šerifović. After him are Claire Foy, Andriy Pyatov, Mandy Moore, Bob Morley, Paolo Guerrero, and Natalia Tena.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Per Mertesacker ranks 3,972 out of 6,142Before him are Francesca Lebrun (1756), Oskar Messter (1866), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Nina Hoss (1975), Ludwig Abeille (1761), and Oliver Shanti (1948). After him are Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954), Anneliese Rothenberger (1926), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Ole Borch (1626), Fredric Wertham (1895), and Wolf Kahler (1940).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Per Mertesacker ranks 142Before him are Uwe Rahn (1962), Bruno Labbadia (1966), Serge Gnabry (1995), Bernd Schneider (1973), Eberhard Vogel (1943), and Ernst Albrecht (1907). After him are Karl-Heinz Körbel (1954), Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908), Rudi Assauer (1944), Adolf Urban (1914), Bernd Storck (1963), and Bernard Dietz (1948).

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