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Matthias Sindelar

Austrian association football player

1903 - 1939

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His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Matthias Sindelar is the 148th most popular soccer player (down from 105th in 2024), the 101st most popular biography from Czechia (down from 75th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Czech Soccer Player.

Matthias Sindelar was a Czechoslovakian footballer who was the captain of the Czechoslovakia national team. He is most famous for scoring the first ever goal in the World Cup, which was in 1930.

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Matthias Sindelar ranks #148 of 24,321 Soccer Players worldwide, placing them among the top 1% of the profession.

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Despite a life of just 35 years, Matthias Sindelar ranks #148 among all Soccer Players in history.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Matthias Sindelar ranks 145 out of 24,321. Before him are Pavel Nedvěd, Tostão, Jorge Jesus, Ademir de Menezes, Yukio Tsuda, and Antonio Conte. After him are Masao Ono, Paulo Roberto Falcão, Carlos Queiroz, Ivica Osim, Jiro Miyake, and Usaburo Hidaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Matthias Sindelar ranks 44. Before him are The French Angel, Alec Douglas-Home, Bing Crosby, Jiro Horikoshi, Haldan Keffer Hartline, and Igor Kurchatov. After him are Claudette Colbert, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Julius Fučík, Abul A'la Maududi, Eliot Ness, and Giulio Natta. Among people deceased in 1939, Matthias Sindelar ranks 20. Before him are Anton Makarenko, Edward Sapir, Karl Radek, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Douglas Fairbanks, and James Naismith. After him are Ferdinand von Lindemann, Antonio Machado, Anthony Fokker, Louis Wain, Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, and Otto Rank.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Matthias Sindelar ranks 101 out of 1,455. Before him are Christoph Schönborn (1945), Alois Senefelder (1771), Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849), Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1662), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), and Antonín Novotný (1904). After him are Anne of Bohemia (1366), František Kupka (1871), Agnes of Bohemia (1211), Julius Fučík (1903), Elizabeth of Pomerania (1347), and Josef Mysliveček (1737).

Among Soccer Players In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Matthias Sindelar ranks 4. Before him are Antonín Panenka (1948), Josef Masopust (1931), and Pavel Nedvěd (1972). After him are Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), Ivo Viktor (1942), Petr Čech (1982), Tomáš Rosický (1980), Antonín Puč (1907), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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