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Alessandro Altobelli

1955 - Today

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Alessandro Altobelli (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro altoˈbɛlli]; born 28 November 1955) is a former professional Italian footballer who played as a forward, and who won the 1982 World Cup with Italy. Nicknamed Spillo ("Needle") for his slender build, Altobelli was a prolific goalscorer and regarded as one of the greatest and most effective Italian strikers of the late 1970s and 1980s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Altobelli has received more than 334,882 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alessandro Altobelli is the 730th most popular soccer player (down from 637th in 2019), the 2,218th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,996th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alessandro Altobelli ranks 730 out of 16,880Before him are Yoshio Fujiwara, Yumi Umeoka, Yaya Touré, Ian Callaghan, Delio Onnis, and Lefter Küçükandonyadis. After him are Arawa Kimura, Luis Molowny, Giuseppe Bergomi, Mordechai Spiegler, Trifon Ivanov, and Takehiko Kawanishi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alessandro Altobelli ranks 112Before him are Ángela Molina, John de Mol Jr., Xander Berkeley, Paul Romer, Bruno Conti, and Akira Nishino. After him are Peter Gallagher, Siri Hustvedt, Olivier Assayas, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mark Hollis, and Thomas Newman.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Altobelli ranks 2,218 out of 4,668Before him are Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (-300), Giancarlo Fisichella (1973), Francesco Filippini (1853), Delio Onnis (1948), Giovanni Lajolo (1935), and Luigi Vanvitelli (1700). After him are Domenico Gabrielli (1659), Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632), Julia (-190), Gaudentius of Brescia (327), Renato Guttuso (1911), and Giovanni de' Bardi (1534).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Alessandro Altobelli ranks 58Before him are Gianluca Pagliuca (1966), Alfredo Foni (1911), Pietro Rava (1916), Bruno Conti (1955), Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), and Delio Onnis (1948). After him are Giuseppe Bergomi (1963), Roberto Bettega (1950), Azeglio Vicini (1933), Paolo Di Canio (1968), Umberto Colombo (1933), and Giuseppe Baresi (1958).