SOCCER PLAYER

Alan Ball Jr.

1945 - 2007

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Alan James Ball (12 May 1945 – 25 April 2007) was an English professional football player and manager. He was the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team and played as a midfielder for various clubs, scoring more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. His playing career also included a then national record £220,000 transfer from Everton to Arsenal at the end of 1971. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Ball Jr. has received more than 961,903 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Alan Ball Jr. is the 2,071st most popular soccer player (up from 2,281st in 2019), the 2,948th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,402nd in 2019) and the 93rd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alan Ball Jr.s by language

Over the past year Alan Ball Jr. has had the most page views in the with 160,213 views, followed by Spanish (5,836), and German (5,651). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (237.74%), Simple English (165.25%), and Malagasy (131.05%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alan Ball Jr. ranks 2,071 out of 21,273. Before him are François Van der Elst, Frenkie de Jong, Lorenzo Staelens, Pedro Parages, Sidney Govou, and Carlos Alberto Silva. After him are Tomáš Ujfaluši, Gustav Wetterström, Jacek Gmoch, Charles William Miller, Carlo Ceresoli, and Zezé Moreira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Alan Ball Jr. ranks 348. Before him are Gianni Amelio, Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, David Sanborn, Kent Karlsson, Azim Premji, and Meira Kumar. After him are Steinar Amundsen, Burt Ward, Walter Momper, Celestino Aós Braco, Marino Basso, and Pierre Michon. Among people deceased in 2007, Alan Ball Jr. ranks 215. Before him are Lloyd Alexander, Kembo Uba Kembo, Liviu Librescu, John Winter, Joachim Hansen, and Solveig Dommartin. After him are Paulinho de Almeida, Karen Spärck Jones, Betty Hutton, Édouard Gagnon, Isidore Isou, and Floyd Westerman.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Ball Jr. ranks 2,948 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Beale (1633), Isabella of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany (1426), Phil Taylor (1960), Matthew Garber (1956), Shirley Henderson (1965), and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987). After him are Steve Davis (1957), Peter Cheyney (1896), Richard Lydekker (1849), Hank Marvin (1941), Adrian Boult (1889), and Ben Whishaw (1980).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alan Ball Jr. ranks 93. Before him are Chris Waddle (1960), Billy Bremner (1942), Nat Lofthouse (1925), Joe Jordan (1951), Reece James (1999), and Francis Lee (1944). After him are Jimmy McGrory (1904), Andy Cole (1971), Pat Jennings (1945), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Fred Pentland (1883), and Ted Drake (1912).

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