1963 - Today
Thomas Bickel (born 6 October 1963) is chief scout for FC Zürich and a former Switzerland national football team midfielder. He was capped 52 times including three games at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and scored five goals for the Switzerland national team between 1986 and 1995.Working mostly as an entrepreneur in gastronomy after his career, he returned to football for good in 2013 as head of scouting at FC Zürich where he had started his professional career as a player in 1985. From 2016 to 2020 he was part of the club management as head of the sport department. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Bickel has received more than 24,526 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). Thomas Bickel is the 1,986th most popular soccer player (up from 2,255th in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 401st in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swiss Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Thomas Bickel ranks 1,986 out of 16,880. Before him are Adi Hütter, Bruce Grobbelaar, Geoff Bent, Kingsley Coman, Gyula Lázár, and Iuliu Bodola. After him are Uwe Rahn, Luiz Luz, Léon Semmeling, Piero Pasinati, Kalidou Koulibaly, and José Augusto.
1970 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1,980
1957 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1,981
1932 - 1958
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1,982
1996 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1,983
1911 - 1983
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 1,984
1912 - 1992
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 1,985
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 1,986
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 1,987
1909 - 1989
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 1,988
1940 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 1,989
1910 - 2000
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 1,990
1991 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 1,991
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.76
Rank: 1,992
Among people born in 1963, Thomas Bickel ranks 211. Before him are Juan Carlos Varela, Bernard Cazeneuve, Jason Connery, Jan Arnald, Marija Pejčinović Burić, and Julie Payette. After him are Jon Brion, Wang Shu, Rosario Flores, Phoebe Cates, Vegard Ulvang, and Clint Mansell.
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 205
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 206
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 207
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 208
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 209
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 210
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 211
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 212
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 213
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 214
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 215
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 216
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 217
Among people born in Switzerland, Thomas Bickel ranks 418 out of 876. Before him are Denise Biellmann (1962), Alain de Botton (1969), Alexander Frei (1979), Fritz Schär (1926), Corina Casanova (1956), and Pierre Aubert (1927). After him are Conrad Grebel (1498), Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Gottfried Dienst (1919), Arthur Cohn (1927), Justus Dahinden (1925), and Johannes Müller Argoviensis (1828).
1962 - Present
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 412
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 413
1979 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 414
1926 - 1997
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 415
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 416
1927 - 2016
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 417
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 418
1498 - 1526
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 419
1724 - 1803
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 420
1919 - 1998
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 421
1927 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 422
1925 - 2020
HPI: 47.62
Rank: 423
1828 - 1896
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 424
Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Thomas Bickel ranks 21. Before him are Robert Ballaman (1926), Oliver Neuville (1973), Roger Vonlanthen (1930), Severino Minelli (1909), Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), and Alexander Frei (1979). After him are Anton Allemann (1936), Marcel Koller (1960), Roger Bocquet (1921), Mario Frick (1974), Lauro Amadò (1912), and Kubilay Türkyilmaz (1967).
1926 - 2011
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 15
1973 - Present
HPI: 48.52
Rank: 16
1930 - 2020
HPI: 48.16
Rank: 17
1909 - 1994
HPI: 48.07
Rank: 18
1984 - Present
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 19
1979 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 20
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 21
1936 - 2008
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 22
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.92
Rank: 23
1921 - 1994
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 24
1974 - Present
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 25
1912 - 1971
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 26
1967 - Present
HPI: 45.66
Rank: 27