Benedikt Höwedes é um zagueiro alemão, capitão do Schalke 04 e campeão da Copa do Mundo de 2014, na qual atuou em todos os minutos dos jogos da Alemanha.
Benedikt Höwedes
Benedikt Höwedes was born in Haltern am See, on February 29, 1988, and developed in the youth categories of Schalke 04. A center-back and also left-back, he became one of the symbols of the Gelsenkirchen club and was captain of the team from 2014 onwards. With Schalke, he won the German Cup in 2010-11 and the German Super Cup in 2011. In 2017-18, he was loaned to Juventus and won Serie A and the Coppa Italia. Later, he played for Lokomotiv Moscow, where he was champion of the Russian Cup in 2018-19. For the German national team, he played 44 matches and scored one goal. He was a regular starter in Germany's 2014 World Cup campaign in Brazil and played every minute of all of Germany's matches in the competition.