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Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Person

Ottmar Hitzfeld

b. 1949

German football manager (born 1949)

Born
12 Jan 1949 · Lörrach

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 89 years
  1. 12 Jan 1949BornBorn in Lörrach
  2. 1967 – 1968TeamFV Lörrach
  3. 1971 – 1975TeamFC Basel
  4. 1972Took part1972 Summer Olympics
  5. 1972TeamGermany national amateur football team
  6. 1972TeamGermany Olympic football team
  7. 1975 – 1978TeamVfB Stuttgart
  8. 1978 – 1980TeamFC Lugano
  9. 1980 – 1983TeamFC Luzern
  10. 1985AwardSoccer Coach of the Year Award (Switzerland)
  11. 2008AwardFootball Manager of the Year

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1949 – today).

  1. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  3. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  4. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  5. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  6. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  7. 1956Suez Crisis
  8. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  9. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  10. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  12. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  13. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  14. 1968Prague Spring
  15. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  16. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  17. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  19. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  20. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  21. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  22. 1985Schengen Agreement
  23. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  24. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  25. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  27. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  29. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  30. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  31. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  32. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  33. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  34. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  35. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  36. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  37. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  38. 20112011 Norway attacks
  39. 2011Libyan civil war
  40. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war

Biography

Ottmar Hitzfeld (German pronunciation: [ˈʔɔtmaːɐ̯ ˈhɪt͡sfɛlt]; born 12 January 1949) is a German former professional football player and a former manager. Nicknamed "der General" ("the General"), he accumulated a total of 25 major titles, mostly in his tenures with Grasshoppers, 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. He earned six caps for the West Germany national team, all at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

A trained mathematician and sports teacher, Hitzfeld is one of the most successful coaches of German and international football. As manager, he won two Bundesliga titles with Dortmund and five Bundesliga titles with Bayern Munich. He won the 1996–97 Champions League with Dortmund, beating a star-studded Juventus team in the final. He won the 2000–01 Champions League with Bayern, defeating Valencia in the final.

He has been elected "World Coach of the Year" twice; he is one of only seven managers to win the European Cup/UEFA Champions League with two clubs, along with Ernst Happel, Luis Enrique, Pep Guardiola, José Mourinho, Jupp Heynckes, and Carlo Ancelotti.

Text from the Wikipedia article Ottmar Hitzfeld, CC BY-SA 4.0

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