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SOCCER PLAYER

Billy Wright

1924 - 1994

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William Ambrose Wright (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent his entire club career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. The first footballer in the world to earn 100 international caps, Wright also held the record for longest unbroken run in competitive international football, with 70 consecutive appearances, although that was surpassed by Andoni Zubizarreta's 86 consecutive appearances for Spain (1985–94). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Billy Wright has received more than 33,599 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Billy Wright is the 855th most popular soccer player (up from 867th in 2019), the 2,029th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,964th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 34k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Billy Wright ranks 855 out of 16,880. Before him are Giuseppe Baresi, Asim Ferhatović, Dimitar Penev, Hulk, Mikel Arteta, and Ferenc Szusza. After him are Carlos Borges, Christian Eriksen, Kiyoshi Tomizawa, Friaça, Ángel Labruna, and Mauro Tassotti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Billy Wright ranks 172. Before him are Claude Lefort, Alice Babs, Shintaro Abe, Dennis Weaver, Fud Leclerc, and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia. After him are Friaça, Deke Slayton, Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Gohar Gasparyan, Michel Constantin, and Viktor Astafyev. Among people deceased in 1994, Billy Wright ranks 133. Before him are Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Anni Albers, Zail Singh, Antoine Pinay, Haim Bar-Lev, and Jean Carmet. After him are Leonid Leonov, Giovanni Spadolini, Stephen Cole Kleene, Manfred Wörner, Sam Francis, and Stanisław Maczek.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Billy Wright ranks 2,029 out of 7,765. Before him are Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), Quentin Skinner (1940), David C. H. Austin (1926), Arthur Hughes (1832), and Thomas Arnold (1795). After him are Frederick Abberline (1843), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Saint Alban (300), Lily Collins (1989), John Profumo (1915), and Arthur Sullivan (1842).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Billy Wright ranks 43. Before him are Paul Gascoigne (1967), Bill Foulkes (1932), Alf Ramsey (1920), Ian Callaghan (1942), Jack Charlton (1935), and Erling Braut Håland (2000). After him are Gordon Milne (1937), Peter Crouch (1981), Tommy Taylor (1932), Herbert Chapman (1878), Michael Carrick (1981), and Rio Ferdinand (1978).

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