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Thomas Hitzlsperger

1982 - Today

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Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982) is a German director of football and former footballer who played as a midfielder. In February 2019, he was appointed Head of Sport of VfB Stuttgart and was subsequently promoted to CEO. In March 2022, he stepped down from this position.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. In 2010, he signed for Italian side Lazio, before moving back to England to join West Ham United later that year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Hitzlsperger has received more than 1,027,529 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hitzlsperger is the 3,378th most popular soccer player (up from 3,393rd in 2019), the 4,497th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,036th in 2019) and the 223rd most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 3,378 out of 16,880Before him are Thomas Strunz, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Aleksandar Kozlina, Mancini, Bengt Berndtsson, and Jakob Streitle. After him are Evair, Antony de Ávila, Lucas Paquetá, Ernesto Castano, Kazimir Hnatow, and Denis Cheryshev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 125Before him are Róbert Vittek, Naldo, Susie Wolff, Rebecca Hall, Laura Ramsey, and Fabricio Coloccini. After him are Li Na, Jack Huston, Ju Ji-hoon, Kim Källström, Alex, and José Bosingwa.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 4,497 out of 6,142Before him are Walther Schreiber (1884), Ria Baran (1922), Barbara Krause (1959), Mario Theissen (1952), Thomas Strunz (1968), and Jakob Streitle (1916). After him are Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Marita Lange (1943), Katrin Sass (1956), Thomas Allofs (1959), Hans Schwartz (1913), and Lena Meyer-Landrut (1991).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 223Before him are Dieter Burdenski (1950), Horst Wolter (1942), Erich Beer (1946), Markus Babbel (1972), Thomas Strunz (1968), and Jakob Streitle (1916). After him are Thomas Allofs (1959), Hans Schwartz (1913), Helmut Kremers (1949), Eike Immel (1960), Thomas Helmer (1965), and Norbert Nigbur (1948).