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Thomas Schaaf

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Thomas Schaaf (born 30 April 1961) is a German professional football manager and former player who played as a defender. A "one-club man", Schaaf spent his entire playing career (1978–1995) and most of his managerial career with Bundesliga club Werder Bremen. He started coaching the team in 1999 and stepped down in 2013, being one of the longest-serving coaches in the Bundesliga. As a player, he won the Bundesliga (1988, 1993) and the DFB-Pokal (1991, 1994) twice and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1992) once; as a manager, he won the Bundesliga once (2004) and the DFB-Pokal three times (1999, 2004, 2009). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Schaaf is the 174th most popular coach (up from 179th in 2019), the 4,136th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,062nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Coach.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Thomas Schaaf ranks 174 out of 471. Before him are Edin Terzić, Gernot Rohr, Gareth Southgate, Robert Waseige, José Faria, and Kurban Berdyev. After him are Hugo Broos, Gian Piero Ventura, Amadeo García, Volodymyr Bezsonov, Andrej Panadić, and Egil Olsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Thomas Schaaf ranks 198. Before him are Chendo, David Heyman, Marc Levy, Supriya Pathak, Andrea Arnold, and Isiah Thomas. After him are Oleksandr Zavarov, Harry Gregson-Williams, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Shiva Rajkumar, Michel Martelly, and Māris Kučinskis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Schaaf ranks 4,138 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Heinz Stuy (1945), Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675), Alfred Kelbassa (1925), and Julius Hirsch (1892). After him are Adolf Busch (1891), Martin Kippenberger (1953), Leonhard Kaupisch (1878), Rainer Zobel (1948), Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), and Elisabeth Schumann (1888).

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Among COACHES In Germany

Among coaches born in Germany, Thomas Schaaf ranks 25. Before him are Julian Nagelsmann (1987), Rudi Gutendorf (1926), Otto Pfister (1937), Fritz Buchloh (1909), Edin Terzić (1982), and Gernot Rohr (1953). After him are Marco Rose (1976), Michael Skibbe (1965), Franco Foda (1966), Willi Multhaup (1903), Matthias Jaissle (1988), and Wolfgang Sidka (1954).

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