The top 10 Soccer Players from Uruguay trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
b. 1969
Trending in Italian (#332) Wikipedia (646 views, on Oct 7).
This page contains a list of the greatest Uruguayans Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 24,321 Soccer Players, 360 of which were born in Uruguay. This makes Uruguay the birth place of the 11th most number of Soccer Players behind Netherlands and Sweden.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Uruguayan Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Uruguayan Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Uruguayan Soccer Players.
1901 - 1957
José Leandro Andrade is most famous for his work as a Mexican artist and muralist. He was born in 1887 in Guanajuato, Mexico and died in 1952. He is most famous for his murals in the National Palace of Mexico and the National Museum of Anthropology.
b. 1987
Uruguayan association football player
1926 - 2015
Alcides Ghiggia is most famous for being the only player to have scored in a World Cup final. In the 1954 World Cup, Ghiggia scored the winning goal in the final against West Germany.
1901 - 1968
José Nasazzi is most famous for being a Uruguayan footballer. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and played for the club side, Nacional. He was the first player to score 100 goals in the Copa Libertadores.
1925 - 2002
Juan Alberto Schiaffino is most famous for being a Uruguayan footballer who played as a striker for the Uruguay national team.
1898 - 1967
Héctor Scarone is most famous for being a member of the "Gang of Four" who assassinated Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973.
1904 - 1960
Héctor Castro is most famous for being a Mexican singer and actor who is most known for his roles in the telenovelas "El abuelo y yo" and "El privilegio de amar".
1905 - 1969
Uruguayan footballer
b. 1979
Uruguayan footballer and manager
b. 1961
Uruguayan footballer
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