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Klaus Fischer

1949 - Today

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Klaus Fischer (born 27 December 1949) is a German former professional footballer and coach. He was a key player on the West Germany national team that lost the 1982 World Cup final to Italy. As a forward, he was noted for his bicycle kicks, and scored a spectacular overhead kick equalizer in extra-time of a 1982 World Cup semi-final against France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klaus Fischer is the 549th most popular soccer player (down from 487th in 2019), the 1,726th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,744th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Klaus Fischer ranks 549 out of 21,273. Before him are Taizo Kawamoto, Nicolas Anelka, Willem van Hanegem, Lukas Podolski, Fernando Peyroteo, and Roque Máspoli. After him are Everaldo, Shigeru Takahashi, Diego Costa, Ottmar Walter, Leopoldo Luque, and Mitsuo Kamata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Klaus Fischer ranks 131. Before him are Larry Holmes, Bo Xilai, Michel Djotodia, Mick Taylor, Hank Williams Jr., and Armand Assante. After him are Gary Ridgway, Leopoldo Luque, Ken Wilber, Shing-Tung Yau, Carlos Bianchi, and Sergei Bagapsh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Klaus Fischer ranks 1,726 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Ebers (1837), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785), Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1888), Albert Lortzing (1801), and Prince William of Baden (1829). After him are Cerdic of Wessex (467), Gottfried Böhm (1920), Joschka Fischer (1948), Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland (1733), Ottmar Walter (1924), and William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1487).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Klaus Fischer ranks 41. Before him are Hans Schäfer (1927), Jürgen Grabowski (1944), Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Jürgen Kohler (1965), Horst Hrubesch (1951), and Oliver Bierhoff (1968). After him are Ottmar Walter (1924), Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984), Philipp Lahm (1983), Bernd Hölzenbein (1946), Rainer Bonhof (1952), and Manfred Kaltz (1953).

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