Soccer Player

Alcides Ghiggia

1926 - 2015

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His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2024). Alcides Ghiggia is the 119th most popular soccer player (up from 135th in 2024), the 7th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 6th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

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.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Alcides Ghiggia ranks 119 out of 21,273Before him are Zito, Tameo Ide, Peter Schmeichel, Kim Yong-sik, Lee Yoo-hyung, and Tony Adams. After him are Mohamed Salah, Kakuichi Mimura, José Nasazzi, César Luis Menotti, Colin Bell, and Dragan Džajić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Alcides Ghiggia ranks 49Before him are Necmettin Erbakan, Tsung-Dao Lee, Ed McBain, Mel Brooks, Louise Hay, and Aaron Klug. After him are Neal Cassady, Richard Crenna, Abdus Salam, Maria Schell, Clifford Geertz, and George Habash. Among people deceased in 2015, Alcides Ghiggia ranks 40Before him are Richard F. Heck, Otto Carius, Tariq Aziz, Maya Plisetskaya, Zito, and Eduardo Galeano. After him are Wes Craven, Benedict Anderson, Douglass North, Fatema Mernissi, James Last, and Colleen McCullough.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Alcides Ghiggia ranks 7 out of NaNBefore him are José Mujica (1935), Tabaré Vázquez (1940), Comte de Lautréamont (1846), José Leandro Andrade (1901), Luis Suárez (1987), and Eduardo Galeano (1940). After him are José Nasazzi (1901), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), Héctor Scarone (1898), Óscar Tabárez (1947), José Gervasio Artigas (1764), and Héctor Castro (1904).

Among Soccer Players In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Alcides Ghiggia ranks 3Before him are José Leandro Andrade (1901), and Luis Suárez (1987). After him are José Nasazzi (1901), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), Héctor Scarone (1898), Héctor Castro (1904), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Pedro Petrone (1905), and Obdulio Varela (1917).

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