SOCCER PLAYER

César Luis Menotti

1938 - 2024

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César Luis Menotti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ˈlwis meˈnoti]; 22 October 1938 – 5 May 2024), known as El Flaco ("Slim"), was an Argentine football player and manager who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as the head coach of the Argentina national team. Menotti played as a striker, most notably for Argentine clubs Rosario Central and Boca Juniors. As a manager, he won three cups with Barcelona and also led Atlético Madrid in La Liga in the 1980s, as well as leading Superclásico rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of César Luis Menotti has received more than 649,523 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). César Luis Menotti is the 115th most popular soccer player (down from 106th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 29th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

César Luís Menotti is a former Argentine football player and manager. He is most famous for his time as manager of the Argentina national football team in 1978, when he led them to win the World Cup.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, César Luis Menotti ranks 115 out of 21,273. Before him are René Higuita, Kunishige Kamamoto, Leônidas, Hiroto Muraoka, Didier Deschamps, and Jorge Jesus. After him are Berti Vogts, Luis Enrique, Luka Modrić, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Arthur Friedenreich, and Alessandro Del Piero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, César Luis Menotti ranks 44. Before him are Diana Rigg, José Altafini, Donald Knuth, Kenny Rogers, Robert Nozick, and Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld. After him are Ahmed Qurei, Jean Giraud, Jiří Menzel, Alpha Condé, Raymond Carver, and Ayaz Mutallibov. Among people deceased in 2024, César Luis Menotti ranks 41. Before him are Tsung-Dao Lee, Andreas Brehme, Ebrahim Raisi, Zvi Zamir, Hage Geingob, and Herbert Kroemer. After him are Seiji Ozawa, Andrew Schally, Leon Cooper, James Earl Jones, Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, and Maurizio Pollini.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, César Luis Menotti ranks 32 out of 1,154. Before him are Daniel Passarella (1953), Helenio Herrera (1910), Alberto Fernández (1959), Mercedes Sosa (1935), Marcelo Bielsa (1955), and Raúl Alfonsín (1927). After him are Richard Walther Darré (1895), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Mauricio Macri (1959), Carlos Reutemann (1942), Ernesto Sabato (1911), and Luis Monti (1901).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, César Luis Menotti ranks 10. Before him are Omar Sívori (1935), Mario Kempes (1954), Gabriel Batistuta (1969), Guillermo Stábile (1905), Daniel Passarella (1953), and Helenio Herrera (1910). After him are Luis Monti (1901), Javier Zanetti (1973), Carlos Bilardo (1938), Raimundo Orsi (1901), Ramón Díaz (1959), and Francisco Varallo (1910).

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