Timo Hildebrand
Hildebrand (2016)
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 5 April 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Worms, West Germany | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| 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 | 0 | (0) |
| 2011 | Schalke 04 II | 6 | (0) |
| 2011–2014 | Schalke 04 | 39 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 3 | (0) |
| Total | 333 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1999–2001 | Germany U21 | 18 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Germany Team 2006 | 2 | (0) |
| 2004–2007 | Germany | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Timo Hildebrand (born 5 April 1979) is a retired German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Hildebrand holds a Bundesliga record for keeping a clean sheet for consecutive minutes (884 minutes) in 2003–04.
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 Gómez 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.
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. 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. 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 won 2–1.
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