SOCCER PLAYER

Bobby Robson

1933 - 2009

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Sir Robert William Robson (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich Town. He is widely considered to be one of the best English managers of all time as well as one of the greatest managers in the history of the game.Robson's professional playing career as an inside forward spanned nearly 20 years, during which he played for three clubs: Fulham, West Bromwich Albion, and, briefly, Vancouver Royals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bobby Robson has received more than 3,394,147 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Bobby Robson is the 164th most popular soccer player (down from 119th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 700th in 2019) and the 8th most popular British Soccer Player.

Bobby Robson is most famous for being the manager of the England national football team for 8 years. He was also manager of Ipswich Town, Fulham, and Newcastle United.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bobby Robsons by language

Over the past year Bobby Robson has had the most page views in the with 392,058 views, followed by Spanish (32,545), and Italian (19,897). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (188.96%), Malagasy (116.35%), and Southern Azerbaijani (98.80%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bobby Robson ranks 164 out of 21,273. Before him are Andrés Iniesta, Didier Drogba, Héctor Scarone, Davor Šuker, Dennis Bergkamp, and Iker Casillas. After him are Kevin Keegan, Laurent Blanc, Oldřich Nejedlý, Gianluca Vialli, Luis Monti, and Kazuyoshi Miura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Bobby Robson ranks 54. Before him are Joan Collins, Charles K. Kao, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Stanley Milgram, Edward de Bono, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After him are Wilbur Smith, Ilia II of Georgia, Cormac McCarthy, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, John Gurdon, and Tomislav Ivić. Among people deceased in 2009, Bobby Robson ranks 26. Before him are Robert McNamara, Milorad Pavić, Ted Kennedy, Vivian Maier, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Ralf Dahrendorf. After him are Jean Dausset, Maurice Druon, Jack Kemp, Robert F. Furchgott, Günther Rall, and João Bernardo Vieira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bobby Robson ranks 648 out of 8,785. Before him are James Hargreaves (1720), Philippa of England (1394), James Paul Moody (1887), James Dewar (1842), George Martin (1926), and John Kendrew (1917). After him are John Flamsteed (1646), Kevin Keegan (1951), Brian Eno (1948), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Richard Arkwright (1732), and Frederick Forsyth (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Bobby Robson ranks 8. Before him are George Best (1946), Stanley Matthews (1915), David Beckham (1975), Gordon Banks (1937), Bobby Moore (1941), and Denis Law (1940). After him are Kevin Keegan (1951), Peter Shilton (1949), Kenny Dalglish (1951), Gary Lineker (1960), Duncan Edwards (1936), and Brian Clough (1935).

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