SOCCER PLAYER

Alex Stepney

1942 - Today

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Alexander Cyril Stepney (born 18 September 1942) is an English former footballer who was Manchester United's goalkeeper when they became the first English club to win the European Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex Stepney has received more than 405,091 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Alex Stepney is the 5,338th most popular soccer player (down from 4,054th in 2019), the 5,144th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,593rd in 2019) and the 254th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alex Stepneys by language

Over the past year Alex Stepney has had the most page views in the with 68,443 views, followed by Russian (2,536), and Italian (1,914). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (157.10%), Malagasy (152.26%), and Irish (67.61%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alex Stepney ranks 5,338 out of 21,273. Before him are Libor Radimec, Josip Weber, Jimmy Gallagher, Isidoro San José, Omari Tetradze, and Günter Hermann. After him are Jean-François Larios, Lukáš Hrádecký, Erwin Sánchez, Jaime Belmonte, Blaise Nkufo, and Yohan Cabaye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Alex Stepney ranks 632. Before him are Ann Packer, Barry Diller, Tom Mankiewicz, Héctor Pulido, Shirley Stobs, and Mario Savio. After him are Custódio Pinto, Pedro Araya Toro, Jürgen Kissner, Eugène Camara, Seiji Aochi, and Alessandro Pesenti-Rossi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex Stepney ranks 5,144 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard A. Proctor (1837), Sonya Walger (1974), Philip Massinger (1583), Frederick E. Morgan (1894), Paul Scott (1920), and Jimmy Gallagher (1901). After him are George Cornet (1877), Michael Drayton (1563), James Larkin (1876), Harold Whitlock (1903), Jet Harris (1939), and Pip Torrens (1960).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alex Stepney ranks 254. Before him are Viv Anderson (1956), Mark Jones (1933), Brian Kidd (1949), Harvey Barnes (1997), Michael Robinson (1958), and Jimmy Gallagher (1901). After him are Jack Wilshere (1992), John Aston Sr. (1921), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (1996), Dennis Wise (1966), Trevor Ford (1923), and Andrew Robertson (1994).

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