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The Most Famous

SOCCER PLAYERS from Philippines

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This page contains a list of the greatest Filipino Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 16,880 Soccer Players, 1 of which were born in Philippines. This makes Philippines the birth place of the 153rd most number of Soccer Players behind Bermuda and Malawi.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Filipino Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Filipino Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Paulino Alcántara (1896 - 1964)

With an HPI of 60.01, Paulino Alcántara is the most famous Filipino Soccer Player.  His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.

Paulino Alcántara Riestrá (7 October 1896 – 13 February 1964) was a professional football player and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he spent most of his playing career at Barcelona, and also represented Catalonia, the Philippines and Spain internationally.Alcántara made his debut for Barcelona at the age of 15, and remains the youngest player to play or score for the club. He scored 395 goals in 399 official and friendly matches, a club record that stood for 87 years. After retiring as a player in 1927 at the age of 31, he became a doctor. Alcántara served as a club director between 1931 and 1934. In 1951, Alcántara became a coach and managed Spain for three games.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as soccer players born between 1896 and 1896. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased soccer players include Paulino Alcántara.

Deceased Soccer Players

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