John Brooks · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
John Brooks
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Anthony Brooks Jr., John Anthony Brooks
German-American soccer player (born 1993)
OverviewAI-generated
John Anthony Brooks is a male association football player born in Berlin on January 28, 1993. He holds citizenship in the United States and Germany and speaks German. Brooks plays as a full-back and has been a member of Hertha BSC, Hertha BSC II, the United States men's national under-20 soccer team, and the United States men's national under-23 soccer team. His professional career began in 2012, and he participated in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He has competed in the 2. Bundesliga and wears the number 25 jersey.
Other individuals named John Brooks include an author born in 1939 who wrote works such as *The Arthur Negus guide to British glass* and *Colourful Falmouth*. Additionally, a musician from the United States performs in country, country pop, and pop genres.
Synthesized by Vinony from 42 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1939
- Works
- 29
Top works
- A debate on the beginning of Messiah's reign, the abrogation of the Mosaic Law, and first proclamation of the gospel
- The Arthur Negus guide to British glass
- Colourful Falmouth
- The Cotswolds
- Cotswolds car tours
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1962-02-07
Discography
- Garth Brooks1989
- No Fences1990
- Ropin’ the Wind1991
- Beyond the Season1992
- The Chase1992
- In Pieces1993
- Fresh Horses1995
- Sevens1997
- Garth Brooks & The Magic of Christmas1999
- Scarecrow2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 214
- Total plays
- 466
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Brooks">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,552x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,600x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,568x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,128x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a document longer than "War and Peace", is phrased -inevitably, perhaps- in the sort of jargon that stuns the mind and disheartens the spirit.”
- “I find that companies are inclined to be at their most interesting when they are undergoing a little misfortune, and therefore I chose the fall of 1966 as the time to have a look at Xerox.”
- “I found that business life is full of creative original minds -along with the usual number of second-guessers, of course.”
- “A man´s study reflects himself as he wishes to be seen publicly, but his journal, if he is honest, reflects something else.”
- “...both company managements and stockholders might well consider a lesson King Lear learned -that when the role of dissenter is left to the Fool, there may be trouble ahead for everybody.”
- “In the law of torts there is the maxim: Every dog has one free bite.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- 2012
- Germany U20
- 2024
- Hertha BSC
- Full name
- John Anthony Brooks Jr.
- Date of birth
- ( 1993-01-28 ) January 28, 1993 (age 33)
- Place of birth
- Berlin , Germany
- Height
- 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
- Position
- Center-back
- Current team
- Hertha BSC
- Years
- Team
- 2011 2015
- Hertha BSC II
- 2012 2017
- Hertha BSC
- 2017 2022
- VfL Wolfsburg
- 2022 2023
- Benfica
- 2023 2024
- TSG Hoffenheim
- 2010 2011
- United States U20
- 2013 2021
- United States
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Hertha
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Brooks
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 2014 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Hertha BSC
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- 2. Bundesliga
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 200
- Image
- John Anthony Brooks 2012 1.jpg
- Height
- 193
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- John Anthony Brooks
- date of birth
- 1993-01-28
- sport number
- 25
- birth name
- John Anthony Brooks
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
- name in native language
- John Brooks
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~7 min read
Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of May 18, 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of September 8, 2021
John Anthony Brooks Jr. (born January 28, 1993) is a professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for 2. Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. Born in Germany, he represented the United States national team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Brooks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.