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Ottmar Hitzfeld

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Ottmar Hitzfeld (German pronunciation: [ˈʔɔtmaːɐ̯ ˈhɪt͡sfɛlt]; born 12 January 1949) is a German former professional football player and a former manager. He accumulated a total of 18 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshopper Club Zürich, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. A striker in his playing days, Hitzfeld won two Swiss Super League titles (1971–72, 1972–73) with Basel. He was top goalscorer in the league for the 1972–73 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ottmar Hitzfeld is the 34th most popular coach (up from 38th in 2019), the 684th most popular biography from Germany (down from 657th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Coach.

Ottmar Hitzfeld is most famous for his coaching success with the German national team and Bayern Munich. He won the World Cup with Germany in 1990 and coached them to victory in the European Championships in 1996. He also coached Bayern Munich to a Champions League title in 2001.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 34 out of 471. Before him are Joachim Löw, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Manuel Pellegrini, Ronald Koeman, Ernst Happel, and Fatih Terim. After him are Michael Laudrup, Dick Advocaat, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Otto Rehhagel, Bernd Schuster, and Miroslav Blažević.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 55. Before him are Linda Lovelace, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, José Ramos-Horta, Fanny Ardant, Robert Palmer, and Don Johnson. After him are Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Robin Gibb, Sebastián Piñera, Jarosław Kaczyński, Shelley Duvall, and Margareta of Romania.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 684 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Wolf (1863), Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Erwin Neher (1944), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), and Karl Wolff (1900). After him are Dietrich Eckart (1868), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Georg Büchner (1813), Otto Carius (1922), Simon Marius (1573), and Arno Breker (1900).

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Among COACHES In Germany

Among coaches born in Germany, Ottmar Hitzfeld ranks 6. Before him are Jupp Heynckes (1945), Hans-Dieter Flick (1965), Jürgen Klopp (1967), Sepp Maier (1944), and Joachim Löw (1960). After him are Otto Rehhagel (1938), Bernd Schuster (1959), Matthias Sammer (1967), Robert Prosinečki (1969), Edmund Conen (1914), and Andreas Köpke (1962).

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