The Most Famous
SOCCER PLAYERS from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 3 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 127th most number of Soccer Players behind The Gambia and Andorra.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Beb Bakhuys (1909 - 1982)
With an HPI of 47.63, Beb Bakhuys is the most famous Indonesian Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Elisa Hendrik "Beb" Bakhuys (16 April 1909 – 7 July 1982) was a Dutch football player and manager.
2. Bambang Pamungkas (1980 - )
With an HPI of 34.57, Bambang Pamungkas is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Bambang Pamungkas (born 10 June 1980), also known as Bepe, is an Indonesian football manager and former player. As a footballer, he predominantly played for Persija Jakarta and the Indonesia national football team. His natural position is striker. Bambang made his name in South East Asian football when he scored the only goal for Indonesia at the 2002 Tiger Cup semifinal against Malaysia, and was the tournament's top scorer with eight goals. Bambang is considered to be an Indonesian living legend and most successful player in Indonesia. He is known with an outstanding header of the ball, and has a reputation for sharpness in the penalty box. He earned 85 caps and 37 goals with the Indonesia national team, and is perhaps the team's most popular player among its supporters. He was considered one of top ten Asian players of 2012 by ESPN Soccernet.
3. Emil Audero (1997 - )
With an HPI of 31.72, Emil Audero is the 3rd most famous Indonesian Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages.
Emilio Audero Mulyadi (born 18 January 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Inter Milan, on loan from Sampdoria. Born in Indonesia, Audero is a former youth international player for Italy, reaching the under-21 level.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as soccer players born between 1909 and 1997. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living soccer players include Bambang Pamungkas and Emil Audero. The most famous deceased soccer players include Beb Bakhuys.
