Ulrich "Uli" Hesse, also ~ Hesse-Lichtenberger, (born 1966 in Dortmund) is a German author, journalist and editor.
[1] He has covered popular music for fanzines and magazines, such as the German edition of Rolling Stone,[2] but primarily writes about sports, predominantly (association) football.
Hesse has published articles in newspapers and magazines in a variety of countries, including England, United States, Sweden, Japan and Israel,[3] and was the editor of the German-language edition of Champions, the official UEFA Champions League magazine,[4] for which he worked as a contributing editor until the publication's demise in 2015.
Between 2002 and 2016, he was a regular columnist for ESPN FC (formerly ESPNsoccernet),[5] which has been called the world's most popular football website.
In September 2016, he joined the editorial staff of 11 Freunde magazine, Germany's biggest football monthly.