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Timo Hildebrand
Personal information
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Sporting
Number 30
Youth career
1984–1994 FV Hofheim/Ried
1994–1999 VfB Stuttgart
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2007 VfB Stuttgart 221 (0)
2007–2008 Valencia 26 (0)
2008–2010 1899 Hoffenheim 38 (0)
2010–2011 Sporting CP 3 (0)
International career‡
1999–2001 Germany U-21 18 (0)
2004–2007 Germany 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12:57, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Timo Hildebrand (born 5 April 1979) is a German professional football goalkeeper who currently plays for Sporting CP after his contract with TSG 1899 Hoffenheim was not renewed in the summer of 2010.

Hildebrand holds a Bundesliga record for keeping a clean sheet for 884 consecutive minutes in 2003–04.[2]

Club career

VfB Stuttgart

After starting his career at the little known FV Hofheim/Ried, Hildebrand joined the Stuttgart youth team in 1994.

From the summer of 2000, he was the club's number one goalkeeper and contributed largely to Stuttgart's successes, particularly as part of what became known as "Stuttgart's young wild ones" team under coach Felix Magath who, due to financial restraints, had to rely on young players. Largely thanks to Hildebrand's steady performances, VfB Stuttgart managed to be Bundesliga runners-up in 2003 and survived the Champions League group stage the following season, before bowing out to Chelsea FC in the second round. Hildebrand also played a significant role in Stuttgart's victorious 2006–07 Bundesliga campaign, figuring as a backbone for the next generation of "wild ones" like Serdar Tasci or Mario Gomez and helping Stuttgart provide the third-best defence of the season. The 2006-07 campaign remains his greatest domestic success to this day, and his last season with Stuttgart as in December 2006 he did not accept the club's offer to extend his contract.[citation needed]

Valencia

Hildebrand joined the Spanish club Valencia on a free transfer on 3 July 2007, with Valencia unveiling Hildebrand via a news conference the next day on 4 July 2007.[3][4] He stated in the news conference that he would "give everything" to the club. Hildebrand was being viewed as a replacement to the club's long-serving goalkeeper Santiago Cañizares.[2][5] He made his debut for Valencia on 29 August, for the third qualification round second leg of UEFA Champions League against IF Elfsborg. He played the full 90 minutes of that game of which they lost 3–2.

Hildebrand was Valencia's first-choice goalkeeper for most part of the 2007-08 season, collecting a Copa del Rey trophy on the way. After Ronald Koeman's departure as Valencia manager, Hildebrand lost his place in the first team as Koeman's successor Unai Emery preferred newly signed Renan Brito instead. According to media coverage, he refused to take place on the bench and was eventually cut from the squad altogether.[6] Hildebrand had not been playing for Valencia for several months since the Supercopa de España second leg on 24 August 2008. On 4 December 2008, he left Valencia by mutual consent.[7]

Hoffenheim

On 10 December 2008, Hildebrand signed for the Bundesliga side 1899 Hoffenheim.[8] He made his Bundesliga debut for Hoffenheim on 31 January 2009 in their 2–0 win at home to Energie Cottbus, being substituted in the 60th minute due to an injury.

In summer 2010 Hildebrand left Hoffenheim.[9]

Sporting

Hildebrand signed a one-year deal with Portuguese Sporting CP and debuted on 16 October 2010 in a 2–1 win over GD Estoril Praia in the Portuguese cup.

International career

After collecting 18 Under-21-caps, Hildebrand made his full international debut for Germany on 28 April 2004 in a friendly against Romania in Bucharest as he came on to substitute Oliver Kahn after the first half and a 0–4 halftime score (Germany eventually lost 1–5).

Hildebrand participated in three consecutive tournaments for Germany, Euro 2004, 2005 Confederations Cup and World Cup 2006, as Germany's third-choice goalkeeper, playing his first competitive game for Germany at the 2005 Confederations Cup against Argentina (final score 2-2). After Kahn's retirement from international football in 2006, Hildebrand stepped up to become Germany's number 2 and was Jens Lehmann's natural replacement during the Euro 2008 qualification.[10] Somewhat surprisingly, Joachim Löw dropped Hildebrand from the final squad for the tournament and picked Robert Enke and René Adler ahead of him.[11] Although Löw stated that Hildebrand was an important player and may return to the set-up in near future,[12] he has yet to appear for Germany since Euro 2008.

Career statistics

As of 5 November 2010

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |1999–00||rowspan="8"|Stuttgart||rowspan="8"|Bundesliga||6||0||0||0||0||0||6||0 |- |2000–01||32||0||5||0||6||0||43||0 |- |2001–02||31||0||3||0||0||0||34||0 |- |2002–03||20||0||1||0||4||0||25||0 |- |2003–04||34||0||0||0||8||0||42||0 |- |2004–05||34||0||3||0||7||0||44||0 |- |2005–06||31||0||2||0||6||0||31||0 |- |2006–07||33||0||6||0||0||0||39||0 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2007–08||rowspan="2"|Valencia||rowspan="2"|La Liga||26||0||3||0||3||0||32||0 |- |2008–09||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2008–09||rowspan="2"|Hoffenheim||rowspan="2"|Bundesliga||10||0||0||0||0||0||10||0 |- |2009–10||28||0||0||0||0||0||28||0 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2010–11||rowspan="1"|Sporting||rowspan="1"|Primeira Liga||0||0||1||0||2||0||3||0 Template:Football player statistics 3259||0||20||0||31||0||310||0 Template:Football player statistics 426||0||3||0||3||0||32||0 Template:Football player statistics 40||0||1||0||2||0||3||0 Template:Football player statistics 5285||0||24||0||36||0||345||0 Template:Football player statistics end

Honours

Germany

VfB Stuttgart

Valencia CF

References

  1. ^ "Timo Hildebrand Official Profile". Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Hildebrand aiming to oust Canizares at Valencia". Reuters. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
  3. ^ "Hildebrand - Nuevo Portero del Valencia Cf" (in Spanish). 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
  4. ^ "Hildebrand moves to Los Che". ITV Football. 4 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
  5. ^ "Hildebrand lays down gauntlet to Canizares". Eurosport. 4 July 2007. Archived from the original on 13 July 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2007.
  6. ^ "David Silva fällt lange aus". kicker.de. 22 September 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Valencia release keeper Hildebrand from contract". ESPNsoccernet. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 4 December 2008.
  8. ^ "Perfekt: Hildebrand zu 1899". kicker.de. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
  9. ^ "Wege von 1899 Hoffenheim und Timo Hildebrand trennen sich am Saisonende". TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (in German). 27 April 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2010.
  10. ^ "Ich erwarte nicht, dass Löw anruft" (in German). Stuttgarter Nachrichten. 8 September 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  11. ^ "Hildebrand glaubt nicht an Nationalelf-Comeback" (in German). transfermarkt.de.[dead link‍]
  12. ^ "Hildebrand schöpft wieder Hoffnung". kicker.de. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

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