Karim Bellarabi

What strikes me about Karim Bellarabi is how completely he became identified with one club. A German winger born in Berlin in 1990, he spent the bulk of his career at Bayer Leverkusen, the kind of one-team loyalty that has grown rare in modern football. At 183 cm he had the frame to play wide and direct, and I always read him as a player defined more by reliability and longevity than by flash. Now retired, he feels like one of those professionals whose value shows up in the long run rather than in highlight reels. I respect that quieter form of a career.

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Name (English)

Karim Bellarabi

Name (Japanese)

カリム・ベララビ

Reading

かりむ・べららび

Born

April 8, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Berlin, Germany

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim%20Bellarabi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q701241

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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