Philipp Lahm

Philipp Lahm

Philipp Lahm (German pronunciation: [ˈfɪlɪp ˈlaːm]; born 11 November 1983) is a German retired professional footballer who played as a right back or defensive midfielder and spent much of his early career playing left back. He was the captain of Bayern Munich, having led them to numerous honours including the 2013 UEFA Champions League as part of the Treble. He is also a former captain of his national team, which he led to win the 2014 FIFA World Cup, before retiring from international football.Lahm is considered by many to be one of the best defenders of his generation and one of the greatest defenders of all time and was included in the World Cup team of the tournament in 2006, 2010, and 2014, and the UEFA Team of the Tournament in 2008 and 2012 and in the UEFA Team of the Year 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Lahm has received more than 2,481,191 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Philipp Lahm is the 604th most popular soccer player (down from 473rd in 2019), the 2,073rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,700th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Soccer Player.