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Antonín Panenka

1948 - Today

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Antonín Panenka (born 2 December 1948) is a Czech retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He spent most of his career representing Czechoslovak club Bohemians Prague. Panenka won UEFA Euro 1976 with the national team of Czechoslovakia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonín Panenka has received more than 649,674 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Antonín Panenka is the 43rd most popular soccer player (up from 44th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Czechia (down from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Soccer Player.

Antonín Panenka is most famous for scoring the winning goal for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship Final with a penalty kick.

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  • 650k

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  • 66.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Antonín Panenka ranks 43 out of 16,880Before him are Ronaldinho, Josef Masopust, László Kubala, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Lothar Matthäus, and Roberto Baggio. After him are Paolo Maldini, Ronaldo, Flórián Albert, Ruud Gullit, Omar Sívori, and Ricardo Zamora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Antonín Panenka ranks 27Before him are George Tupou V, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Marcello Lippi, Klaus Meine, Keke Rosberg, and Yoshihide Suga. After him are George R. R. Martin, Steven Tyler, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, John R. Bolton, Robert Plant, and Donna Summer.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Antonín Panenka ranks 52 out of 973Before him are Emil Hácha (1872), Václav Klaus (1941), Josef Masopust (1931), Bernard Bolzano (1781), Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein (1940), and Karel Gott (1939). After him are Milena Jesenská (1896), Adalbert of Prague (955), Karl Renner (1870), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), Lída Baarová (1914), and Karl Hermann Frank (1898).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Antonín Panenka ranks 2Before him are Josef Masopust (1931). After him are Matthias Sindelar (1903), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), Ivo Viktor (1942), Petr Čech (1982), Sigfried Held (1942), Antonín Puč (1907), and Zdeněk Zeman (1947).