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Robert Enke

1977 - 2009

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Robert Enke (24 August 1977 – 10 November 2009) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played for Mönchengladbach, Benfica, and Barcelona, but made most of his appearances for Bundesliga side Hannover 96 in his homeland. He won eight full international caps for the Germany national team between the 1999 Confederations Cup and his death in 2009, and was part of the squad which finished as runners-up in Euro 2008. Enke died by suicide on the evening of 10 November 2009. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Enke has received more than 1,332,023 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Robert Enke is the 697th most popular soccer player (up from 813th in 2019), the 2,400th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,494th in 2019) and the 55th most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Robert Enke ranks 697 out of 16,880Before him are Bodo Illgner, Attilio Demaría, Danilo Popivoda, Bill Foulkes, Yasuo Haruyama, and Kazu Naoki. After him are Nani, Alfredo Foni, Waldo Machado, Santiago Cañizares, Orlando Peçanha, and Pietro Rava.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Robert Enke ranks 31Before him are Brittany Murphy, Antonio Di Natale, Mark van Bommel, Mette Frederiksen, Luca Toni, and Katheryn Winnick. After him are Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gianluca Zambrotta, André Villas-Boas, Kaja Kallas, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Among people deceased in 2009, Robert Enke ranks 103Before him are Inger Christensen, Meir Amit, Tavo Burat, Tomohiko Ikoma, Oleg Yankovsky, and Manea Mănescu. After him are Stephen Toulmin, Al Martino, Samak Sundaravej, Yegor Gaidar, Eric Woolfson, and Susanna Agnelli.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Enke ranks 2,400 out of 6,142Before him are Rudolf Rocker (1873), Lujo Brentano (1844), Reiner Stahel (1892), Angilbert (740), Hennes Weisweiler (1919), and Grand Duchess Maria Kirillovna of Russia (1907). After him are Johann Fust (1400), Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein (1870), Johann Froben (1460), Harro Schulze-Boysen (1909), Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (1610), and Christoph Schneider (1966).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Robert Enke ranks 55Before him are Sami Khedira (1987), Hans Schäfer (1927), Marco Reus (1989), Mario Gómez (1985), Guido Buchwald (1961), and Bodo Illgner (1967). After him are Andreas Möller (1967), Christoph Daum (1953), Jürgen Sparwasser (1948), Ottmar Walter (1924), Winfried Schäfer (1950), and Stefan Effenberg (1968).