SOCCER PLAYER

Diego Maradona

1960 - 2020

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Diego Armando Maradona Franco (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo maɾaˈðona]; 30 October 1960 – 25 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the FIFA Player of the 20th Century award, alongside Pelé. An advanced playmaker who operated in the classic number 10 position, Maradona's vision, passing, ball control, and dribbling skills were combined with his small stature, which gave him a low centre of gravity and allowed him to manoeuvre better than most other players. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diego Maradona has received more than 32,561,932 page views. His biography is available in 141 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 135 in 2019). Diego Maradona is the 6th most popular soccer player (down from 4th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Argentina (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

Diego Maradona is most famous for his goal against England in the 1986 World Cup.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 78.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 141

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Diego Maradona ranks 6 out of 21,273. Before him are Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff, Ferenc Puskás, and Lev Yashin. After him are Cristiano Ronaldo, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Garrincha, Gerd Müller, Eusébio, and Mário Zagallo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Diego Maradona ranks 1. After him are Naruhito, Ayrton Senna, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tim Cook, Jeffrey Dahmer, Philippe of Belgium, Antonio Banderas, Yulia Tymoshenko, Jo Nesbø, Isaac Herzog, and Joachim Löw. Among people deceased in 2020, Diego Maradona ranks 1. After him are Sean Connery, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, Kirk Douglas, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Pierre Cardin, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Qasem Soleimani, Alan Parker, and Max von Sydow.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Diego Maradona ranks 3 out of 1,154. Before him are Che Guevara (1928), and Pope Francis (1936). After him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Astor Piazzolla (1921), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Lionel Messi (1987), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), and Jorge Rafael Videla (1925).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Diego Maradona ranks 1. After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), Lionel Messi (1987), Omar Sívori (1935), Mario Kempes (1954), Gabriel Batistuta (1969), Guillermo Stábile (1905), Daniel Passarella (1953), Helenio Herrera (1910), César Luis Menotti (1938), Luis Monti (1901), and Javier Zanetti (1973).

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