SOCCER PLAYER

Werner Leimgruber

1934 - 2025

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Werner Leimgruber (2 September 1934 – 2 January 2025) was a Swiss footballer who played as a defender for FC Zürich. He made 10 appearances for the Switzerland national team, also playing in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Leimgruber died on 2 January 2025, at the age of 90. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Leimgruber is the 630th most popular soccer player (up from 4,170th in 2019), the 185th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 596th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Werner Leimgruber ranks 630 out of 21,273. Before him are Michel Hidalgo, Yoshio Kikugawa, Preben Elkjær, Hidetoshi Nakata, Tofiq Bahramov, and Víctor Valdés. After him are Mark van Bommel, John Connelly, Bernd Hölzenbein, Erwin Koeman, Rabah Madjer, and Emmanuel Petit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Werner Leimgruber ranks 122. Before him are James Sikking, Robert Moog, Julius Darmaatmadja, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Nicéphore Soglo, and Jean Chrétien. After him are Ken Rosewall, Jean Sorel, Kira Muratova, Glenn Davis, Omar Karami, and Manfred Wörner. Among people deceased in 2025, Werner Leimgruber ranks 86. Before him are Ted Kotcheff, Renato Corsetti, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Jeannot Szwarc, Fred Stolle, and Anastasios of Albania. After him are Dick McTaggart, Zoltán Horváth, Suchinda Kraprayoon, Fabio Cudicini, Margarita Xhepa, and Frits Bolkestein.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Werner Leimgruber ranks 185 out of 1,015. Before him are Édouard Claparède (1873), Louis of Cyprus (1436), Anton Graff (1736), Marc Allégret (1900), Marina Doria (1935), and Kurt Huber (1893). After him are Isabelle Eberhardt (1877), Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Jonas Furrer (1805), Michel Simon (1895), Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), and Matthias Zurbriggen (1856).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Werner Leimgruber ranks 1. After him are Yann Sommer (1988), Ivan Rakitić (1988), André Abegglen (1909), Roberto Di Matteo (1970), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Josef Hügi (1930), Marcel Koller (1960), Anton Allemann (1936), Oliver Neuville (1973), Thomas Bickel (1963), and Robert Ballaman (1926).

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