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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, currently board member at Serie A club Hellas Verona. 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. In January 2025, after the acquisition of Hellas Verona by American private equity firm Presidio Investors, he was announced as a board member of the Serie A club. 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Hitzlsperger is the 5,894th most popular soccer player (down from 4,438th in 2019), the 5,613th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,248th in 2019) and the 372nd most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 5,894 out of 21,273. Before him are Segundo Castillo, Felipe Caicedo, Cody Gakpo, Ivor Broadis, Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, and Yoshikazu Isoda. After him are Chung Hae-won, Iraj Danaeifard, Darío Pereyra, Mattia De Sciglio, Takehiro Kato, and José Luis Gayà.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 223. Before him are Matthias Steiner, Gemma Chan, Mamuka Bakhtadze, Thora Birch, Server Djeparov, and Segundo Castillo. After him are Toby Kebbell, Ján Mucha, Gabriel Luna, Lou Doillon, Oguchi Onyewu, and Tatsuya Fujiwara.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 5,616 out of 7,253. Before him are Ozan Güven (1975), Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (1963), Rica Reinisch (1965), Willy Ley (1906), Giorgos Donis (1969), and Peter Schamoni (1934). After him are WestBam (1965), Boris Brejcha (1981), Lars Bender (1989), Evelin Kaufer (1953), Josef Bierbichler (1948), and Bärbel Struppert (1950).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Thomas Hitzlsperger ranks 372. Before him are Maurizio Gaudino (1966), Stefan Ortega (1992), Lothar Kobluhn (1943), Gerd Kische (1951), Thomas Dooley (1961), and Giorgos Donis (1969). After him are Lars Bender (1989), Uwe Rösler (1968), Oliver Baumann (1990), Heiko Westermann (1983), Hans-Günter Bruns (1954), and Nadine Angerer (1978).

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