SOCCER PLAYER

Dick Nanninga

1949 - 2015

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Dirk Jacobus Willem "Dick" Nanninga (17 January 1949 – 21 July 2015) was a Dutch footballer who played as a forward. At club level, he played for Dutch sides BV Veendam, Roda JC and MVV Maastricht. He also had a short spell with Hong Kong club Seiko. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Nanninga has received more than 118,090 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Dick Nanninga is the 1,064th most popular soccer player (down from 1,060th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 471st in 2019) and the 51st most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

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  • 24

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  • 7.74

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  • 1.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Dick Nanninga ranks 1,064 out of 21,273Before him are Humberto Maschio, Manuel Bento, Jean-Jacques Marcel, Savo Milošević, Joan Segarra, and Hamit Altıntop. After him are N'Golo Kanté, Tatsuya Shiji, Leopold Kielholz, José Antonio Reyes, Fernando Couto, and Giovanni Lodetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dick Nanninga ranks 209Before him are Roger Deakins, Ric Ocasek, Francis Rossi, Michel Djotodia, Philip Michael Thomas, and Leslie Easterbrook. After him are Yūsaku Matsuda, Bill Bruford, Alice Walton, Edu, Michio Yasuda, and Valentin Inzko. Among people deceased in 2015, Dick Nanninga ranks 143Before him are Ernst Fuchs, Roberto M. Levingston, Robert Conquest, Valentin Rasputin, Douglas Tompkins, and Franco Interlenghi. After him are Moses Malone, Percy Sledge, André Glucksmann, Johanna Quandt, Mile Mrkšić, and Geoffrey Lewis.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Dick Nanninga ranks 444 out of 1,646Before him are Louis Beel (1902), Jan Akkerman (1946), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), and Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625). After him are Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Johannes Kleiman (1896), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), Gerard Philips (1858), and Princess Marie of the Netherlands (1841).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Dick Nanninga ranks 51Before him are Hakim Ziyech (1993), Ronald de Boer (1970), Jordi Cruyff (1974), George Knobel (1922), Virgil van Dijk (1991), and Rinus Israël (1942). After him are Jaap Eden (1873), Pierre van Hooijdonk (1969), Dick van Dijk (1946), Gerald Vanenburg (1964), Jan Wouters (1960), and Kees Rijvers (1926).