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Thomas Hitzlsperger

1982 - Today

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Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982) is a German football executive and former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. In February 2019, he was appointed Head of Sport at VfB Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart, later rising to the position of CEO. He stepped down from this role in March 2022. As a player, he spent the early part of his career playing for Aston Villa in England (accompanied by a short loan spell at Chesterfield), before returning to Germany to play for Stuttgart, where he was a member of the team which won the Bundesliga in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hitzlsperger has received more than 1,152,121 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Thomas Hitzlsperger is the 4,439th most popular soccer player (down from 3,377th in 2019), the 5,248th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,483rd in 2019) and the 305th most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 4,439 out of 21,273. Before him are Dele Alli, Artur Boruc, Rüdiger Schnuphase, Toshiaki Imai, Georgi Yartsev, and Giampaolo Menichelli. After him are Abdeslam Laghrissi, Janusz Kupcewicz, Fernando Picun, Otto Hemele, Ramiro Blacut, and Fabricio Coloccini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 133. Before him are Jenna Haze, Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Alice Eve, Alexandra Breckenridge, Allison Mack, and Justin Chatwin. After him are Alexa Davalos, Fabricio Coloccini, Deniz Çakır, Aksel Lund Svindal, Philippe Gilbert, and Laura Ramsey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 5,248 out of 7,253. Before him are Grethe Weiser (1903), Rainer Troppa (1958), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Thomas Köhler (1940), Rüdiger Schnuphase (1954), and Werner Haas (1927). After him are Torsten Gütschow (1962), Gunhild Hoffmeister (1944), Evelin Jahl (1956), Moon Ga-young (1996), Bernhard Germeshausen (1951), and Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 305. Before him are Jürgen Nöldner (1941), Armin Veh (1961), Jens Jeremies (1974), Leo Wilden (1936), Rainer Troppa (1958), and Rüdiger Schnuphase (1954). After him are Torsten Gütschow (1962), Dietmar Danner (1950), Michael Rensing (1984), Wolfgang Seguin (1945), Sead Kolašinac (1993), and Andreas Kupfer (1914).

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