SOCCER PLAYER

Alberto Spencer

1937 - 2006

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Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera (6 December 1937 – 3 November 2006) was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as a forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian men's footballers of all time. He is probably best known for his still-standing record for scoring the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the premier club tournament in South America. He was elected the 20th best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Spencer has received more than 190,309 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Alberto Spencer is the 689th most popular soccer player (down from 688th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Ecuador (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Ecuadorean Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alberto Spencer ranks 689 out of 21,273. Before him are Dieter Müller, Hugo Lloris, Saburo Shinosaki, Waldemar de Brito, Sami Khedira, and Lorenzo Fernández. After him are Enrique Guaita, Franz Binder, Daigoro Kondo, Andreas Möller, Jacinto Quincoces, and Álvaro Gestido.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Alberto Spencer ranks 133. Before him are Carlo Mazzone, Jovan Divjak, Archie Shepp, Viacheslav Chornovil, Guy Marchand, and Bella Akhmadulina. After him are Amos Tversky, Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, Ned Beatty, Monkey Punch, and Valentin Bondarenko. Among people deceased in 2006, Alberto Spencer ranks 100. Before him are Robert Plutchik, Walerian Borowczyk, Richard Kuklinski, Pierre Clostermann, Alexander Zinoviev, and Jane Jacobs. After him are Rocío Dúrcal, Trevor Berbick, Igor Sergeyev, Ibolya Csák, Peter Boyle, and Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Alberto Spencer ranks 7 out of 147. Before him are Guillermo Lasso (1955), Huayna Capac (1476), Rafael Correa (1963), Lenín Moreno (1953), Manuela Sáenz (1797), and María Capovilla (1889). After him are Gabriel García Moreno (1821), Alfredo Palacio (1939), José María Velasco Ibarra (1893), Gustavo Noboa (1937), Eloy Alfaro (1842), and Álvaro Noboa (1950).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ecuador

Among soccer players born in Ecuador, Alberto Spencer ranks 1. After him are Enner Valencia (1989), Antonio Valencia (1985), Felipe Caicedo (1988), Iván Hurtado (1974), Moisés Caicedo (2001), Carlos Tenorio (1979), Agustín Delgado (1974), Álex Aguinaga (1968), Édison Méndez (1979), José Francisco Cevallos (1971), and Ulises de la Cruz (1974).

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