- Mario Gomez
Mario Gomez García is a professional German football player who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart. His father is Spanish and his mother Christel is German.
- Thomas Hitzlsperger
Thomas Hitzlsperger (born 5 April 1982 in Munich, Germany) is a midfielder for VfB Stuttgart. He signed for VfB Stuttgart in Summer 2005, having left Aston Villa on a Bosman free transfer. This was the base for his nomination for Germany's World Cup squad 2006 but failed to make it into Klinsmann's starting eleven. Hitzlsperger joined Aston Villa from Bayern Munich, where he was a player in the youth team.
- Sami Khedira
Sami Khedira is a German football player. He is of Tunisian descent, as his father is from that country. His mother is German. Before joining the youth team of VfB Stuttgart in 1995, he played at "TV Oeffingen". In the first months of the 2006/2007 season, he was called up into VfB's Bundesliga squad by manager Armin Veh. His debut followed on October 1, 2006 against Hertha BSC Berlin.
- Philipp Lahm
Philipp Lahm (born November 11, 1983 in Munich, Bavaria) is a German footballer who currently plays as a defender for Bayern Munich and Germany at Euro 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He scored the opening goal of the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is considered one of the best young fullbacks in the world, as is shown by his inclusion in the Mastercard All Star Team. Known to be young and energetic, Lahm's pace is unbelievable, …
- Timo Hildebrand
Timo Hildebrand (born April 5, 1979 in Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a goalkeeper, who currently plays for the Spanish club Valencia CF in La Liga, and the German national football squad. He has a reputation for impressive reflexes and substantial ability in 1-on-1 situations. Hildebrand holds a Bundesliga record for keeping a clean sheet for 884 consecutive minutes in 2003/2004.
- Joachim Löw
Joachim "Jogi" Löw (born 3 February 1960 in Schönau im Schwarzwald, Lörrach) is the coach of the German national football team and a former German football striker.
- Roberto Hilbert
Roberto Hilbert is a German football player. He has two children, Shakira and Luis. In his youth, Hilbert played for SpVgg Jahn Forchheim, 1. FC Nürnberg and SpVgg Greuther Fürth. In 2002, he was transferred to Bayernliga (4th division) side 1. SC Feucht, where he was one of the key players. After his club was promoted to the Regionalliga (3rd division) the following season, he scored ten goals in 26 games. On the basis of this performance, Fürth called him back.
- Jürgen Klinsmann
Jürgen Klinsmann is a German football manager and former football player, who played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the West German national team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He was one of Germany's premier strikers during the 90s. He managed the German national team to a third-place finish in the 2006 World Cup, a much better result than the general expectations, including those from Germany's own fans.
- Ricardo Osorio
Ricardo Osorio Mendoza is a Mexican football defender, who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga
- Pavel Pardo
Pável Pardo Segura, is a Mexican international football player, who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart as a Defensive Midfielder in the German Bundesliga and for the Mexican national team.
- Andreas Hinkel
Andreas Hinkel (born March 26, 1982 in Backnang) is a professional German footballer, who plays for Spanish La Liga club Sevilla FC. Hinkel plays as a defender, starting his career in VfB Stuttgart of Germany. He has represented his country on 17 occasions, making his debut in 2003 against Serbia and Montenegro, but has yet to open his scoring account. Hinkel was not part of the German National Team for 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- Ludovic Magnin
Ludovic Magnin (born 20 April 1979 in Sion) is a Swiss football defender who currently, as of May 2007, plays for VfB Stuttgart. He has got 27 caps and 2 goals for the Swiss national team since his debut in 2000. He has been called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and also participated at the 2004 European Football Championship.
- Fernando Meira
Fernando Meira, pron., is a Portuguese football player. He has won numerous caps for the Portugal national football team before establishing himself as a regular in the national side's defence. After being left out of the squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, he earned a recall under new coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.
- Arthur Boka
Arthur Boka is a Côte d'Ivoire football defender who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart. Like many successful players from Côte d'Ivoire, he started his career at homeland club ASEC Abidjan, after coming through their much famed youth system, that has also produced players such as Kolo Touré, Emmanuel Eboué, and Aruna Dindane. He joined the club after walking in from the streets of Côte d'Ivoire capital Abidjan and asking for a trial.
- Serge Branco
Serge Branco (born 11 October 1980 in Douala/Cayenne) is a Cameroonian football midfielder. He represented the victorious Cameroonian national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and has been capped 12 times in total for his country. Branco spent the initial years of his career in Germany. He signed for Leeds United on 1 September 2004, but was released on 13 September for fitness reasons. Since 2005 he has played in the Russian league.
- Alexander Farnerud
Alexander Farnerud (born May 1, 1984 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish football midfielder who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. He has also played for Landskrona BoIS in Sweden and Racing Strasbourg in France. He is the brother of Sweden international Pontus Farnerud who currently plays for Sporting C.P.
- Michael Mutzel
Michael Mutzel (born September 27, 1979 in Memmingen, Germany) is a German football midfielder currently playing for Karlsruher SC. He represented Germany at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship.
- Jon Dahl Tomasson
Jon Dahl Tomasson (born August 29, 1976) is a Danish professional footballer, who plays for Spanish side Villarreal CF in the Spanish La Liga championship. Playing either as a striker or an attacking midfielder, Tomasson is known for his positional strength and fine finishing. His most notable run of football came in his years at Dutch club Feyenoord Rotterdam, with whom he won the 2002 UEFA Cup, and Italian club AC Milan, with whom he won the 2003 UEFA Champions League.
- Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis (born 3 December 1981 in Kozani) is a Greek Football player. Amanatidis came as a 9 year old with his three siblings to Germany to Swabian Stuttgart where he joined SC Stuttgart. Two years later he went to VfB Stuttgart academy. In 2002 he started his Bundesliga career. He was transferred to Eintracht Frankfurt within the 2003/04 season because he could not get a regular spot at Stuttgart.
- Christian Tiffert
Christian Tiffert (born 18 February, 1982) is a German football (soccer) midfielder. He currently plays for MSV Duisburg.
- Marco Streller
Marco Streller (born 18 June 1981 in Basel) is a Swiss football striker. He currently has 18 caps for the Swiss national team, and has been called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was in the squad for the 2004 European Football Championship, but pulled out due to injury. He is considered partly responsible for Switzerland's defeat at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, having opted to go first on penalties against the Ukraine and missing his shot.
- Maurizio Gaudino
Maurizio Gaudino (born 12 December 1966 in Brühl) is a retired German football midfielder. He was capped five times for Germany in 1993 and 1994, and was in their squad for the 1994 World Cup. Gaudino played 294 Bundesliga games for Waldhof Mannheim, VfB Stuttgart, Eintracht Frankfurt and VfL Bochum. He won the league title with Stuttgart in 1992.
- Fredi Bobic
Fredi Bobic (born October 30, 1971 in Maribor, Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a German football striker. He has a Slovenian father and a Croatian mother. He was at his prime in mid-1990s at VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. In his first Bundesliga season 1994/95 he scored a goal in each of his first five games, so he became a candidate for the German national football team after only a few appereances in the first German league.
- Rui Marques
Manuel Rui Marques (born 3 September 1977, also known as Rui Manuel Marques) is an Angolan footballer player from Luanda, Angola but he moved to Portugal as a child. He is currently unattached and without a club, having been released from his contract at Leeds United. He plays as a defender. Marques began professionly in Germany's SSV Ulm 1846 in the 1999-2000 season but then moved to Herta Berlin in Berlin, Germany's capital and one of their top clubs.
- Daniel Bierofka
Daniel Bierofka is a German footballer. Born in Munich, he has played for SpVgg Feldmoching, SpVgg Unterhaching, FC Bayern München (between 1994 and 2000), TSV 1860 München (between 2000 and 2002) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (between 2002 and 2005). For the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons Bierofka played with VfB Stuttgart. In June 2007, Bierofka returned to TSV 1860 München with TSV 1860 München committing to a deferred payment of 400000 Euros.
- Eike Immel
Eike Immel (born November 27, 1960 in Stadtallendorf) is a former German football player and manager. A leading youth international goalkeeper for West Germany in 1978, Eike Immel was still seventeen years of age when he succeeded Horst Bertram as Borussia Dortmund's first-choice. He remained Dortmund's top choice until his 2 million Deutsche Mark transfer to VfB Stuttgart in 1986, the biggest fee ever paid for a goalkeeper in the history German football at that time.
- Krassimir Balakov
Krassimir Balakov (born March 29, 1966 in Veliko Tarnovo) is a former Bulgarian footballer and a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. After Hristo Stoichkov, he is considered the greatest Bulgarian footballer of his generation.
- Christian Gentner
Christian Gentner is a German football player. Before joining VfB Stuttgart, the defensive midfielder played at TSV Beuren and VfL Kirchheim. In the 2004/2005 season, he played 28 times and scored six times for the Regionalliga (3rd division) team of VfB Stuttgart. In the same season, he had his Bundesliga debut against Hertha BSC Berlin on February 20, 2005 (1:0). He scored his first goal in a UEFA cup game against NK Domzale on September 25, 2005.
- Andreas Beck
Andreas Beck is a German football defender who currently plays for VfB Stuttgart in the Bundesliga. He made his Bundesliga debut on 11 February 2006 against Arminia Bielefeld.
- Michael Langer
Michael Langer (born January 6, 1985 in Bregenz, Austria) is an Austrian football player. He is 193 cm (6'4") and 87 kg (192 pounds). Currently a goalkeeper for the German Bundesliga team VfB Stuttgart, he made his debut in the highest German division on March 10, 2007 in a game against Wolfsburg, as a replacement for regular goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand. He has also played twice for the Austrian Under-21 national team.
- Matthias Sammer
Matthias Sammer (born September 5, 1967) is a former German football player who is now a coach. He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1996, the year he led Germany to victory in the European Championship. Sammer retired with 74 total caps, 23 for East Germany and 51 for the unified side.
- Didier Six
Didier Six (born August 21st, 1954 in Lille) is a French former footballer. He played as a winger and he earned 52 caps and scored 13 goals for the France national football team. He played in the 1978 FIFA World Cup and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was also part of the winning team of Euro 84. He also acquired Turkish citizenship in order to play as a neutral player at Galatasaray.
- Guido Buchwald
Guido Buchwald (born January 24, 1961) is a German former football defender and manager. The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectively stopped the arguably best soccer player at the time, Diego Maradona, earning him the nickname 'Diego'. He was also part of Germany's disappointing 1994 FIFA World Cup squad. Buchwald began his professional soccer career in 1983 with VfB Stuttgart.
- Axel Kruse
Axel Kruse (born September 28, 1967 in Wolgast, Germany) was a German footballer who played for several Bundesliga clubs. After retiring from soccer, he played American football as a placekicker for NFL Europe's team Berlin Thunder from 1999-2003.
- Markus Babbel
Markus Babbel (born September 8 1972 in Munich) is a former German international footballer who played as a defender. Starting out in the German Bundesliga, his first club was Bayern Munich, for whom he played initially from the youth squad, forging to the first team and making eight starts, as well as four substitute appearances in league games. Moving to SV Hamburg in August 1992 gave Babbel the chance to appear regularly in a first-team slot.
- Marcelo Bordon
Marcelo José Bordon is a Brazilian football defender. Since 2004 he has played for German football club FC Schalke 04, having joined the club for a 2.6 million euro transfer fee from VfB Stuttgart. There, he formed a formidable central defence alongside Mladen Krstajic, and has been a first team regular ever since, boasting a formidable aerial ability and a capacity for leadership that earned him the role as team captain for the 2006/2007 season.
- Nico Claesen
Nico Claesen is a former Belgian football (soccer) player. He earned 36 caps and scored 12 goals from 1983 to 1990 for the Belgium national football team, and was in the squad for three major tournaments: Euro 1984, the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where he scored three goals as Belgium finished in fourth, and the 1990 FIFA World Cup. Among the many club teams he played for were Tottenham Hotspur, …
- Walter Kelsch
Walter Kelsch (born September 03 1957) is a former German footballer. The forward starts his career with "TSV Busnau". Then he played for Stuttgarter Kickers and later on for VfB Stuttgart. In 246 Bundesliga-matches he scored 54 goals. In France he played 78 matches (20 goals) for RC Strasbourg. He also won 4 caps (1979 and 1980) for Germany, in which he scored 3 goals.
- Kevin Kurányi
Kevin Dennis Kurányi is a German football (soccer) player, who currently plays for the German Bundesliga team Schalke 04. He was born to a German-Hungarian father and a Panamanian mother. He opted to play for the German national football team.
- Yıldıray Baştürk
Yıldıray Baştürk is a Turkish footballer. The son of a miner, Baştürk began his football career at Sportfreunden Wanne-Eickel. As a teenager Baştürk played for SG Wattenscheid 09, and his breakthrough in the Bundesliga came with city rivals VfL Bochum, for whom he even played in the UEFA Cup. After the 2001 transfer to Bayer 04 Leverkusen more success was coming his way. Baştürk and Leverkusen finished second in the German league, …