Forbes - Club ownership, big money & values
Thomas Hitzlsperger is not your ordinary soccer player. He played in the Bundesliga, Premier League, and Serie A, amassed half a century of caps for Germany, came out as gay, embarked on a mission of advocacy, and today he is invested in Danish club Aalborg BK and London restaurant L’Escargot. Hitzlsperger is curious about the world. On a recent trip to the Football Writers Festival in Sydney, he bombarded his companions with questions of politics and economics, but building a career after the heights and adulation of success in soccer, crisscrossing Europe’s major stadiums and featuring in the Euro 2008 final, is not easy.