Sami Tuomas Hyypi� is a Finnish football manager and former defender. He currently manages Football League Championship club Brighton & Hove Albion. Hyypi� began his playing career with Ykk�nen side Kumu and soon moved to Veikkausliiga outfit MyPa. He spent four years at the club, helping them win the Finnish Cup in 1992 and 1995. He moved to Willem II Tilburg in 1995 and spent the next four years there. He became the team captain and was nominated their player of the year after helping them qualify for the UEFA Champions League. In 1999 a Hyypi� moved to Liverpool, the team he supported as a child, in a deal worth �2.6 million. He quickly established himself in the first team, partnering St�phane Henchoz in defence. By 2001, he regularly captained the team and that season Liverpool won a slew of honours, completing a cup treble of the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup, in addition to winning the UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield. He became first choice captain in the 2001?02 season and was part of the Football League Cup winning team in 2003. Steven Gerrard superseded him as captain in 2003 but Hyypi� still occasionally captained the side in his absence. 

October 7th, 1973 in Porvoo (Age 51)