SOCCER PLAYER

Erik Nilsson

1916 - 1995

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Erik Henry Sixten Nilsson (6 August 1916 – 9 September 1995) was a Swedish footballer who played as a left back. Nilsson played his youth days with Limhamns IF, before he moved in 1934 to Allsvenskan club Malmö FF, where he played until 1953. There he won five league titles and five Swedish Cups. During his playing days he rejected an offer from A.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Nilsson has received more than 45,054 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Erik Nilsson is the 945th most popular soccer player (up from 1,012th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 403rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Soccer Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Erik Nilsson ranks 945 out of 21,273. Before him are Bruno Metsu, Juan Hohberg, Valery Gazzaev, Hassan Shehata, Michele Andreolo, and Pauleta. After him are Koichi Oita, Tomoyasu Asaoka, Tim, Ferenc Szusza, Bernd Bransch, and Adrian Mutu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Erik Nilsson ranks 111. Before him are Ivo Lola Ribar, Zail Singh, Alexey Maresyev, Edmundo Suárez, Ugo Locatelli, and Helmut Gröttrup. After him are Penelope Fitzgerald, Amha Selassie, Hilary Koprowski, Moondog, Giuseppe Taddei, and Julian Rotter. Among people deceased in 1995, Erik Nilsson ranks 111. Before him are Adolfo Pedernera, André Frossard, Masashi Watanabe, Fred West, J. Presper Eckert, and Annie M. G. Schmidt. After him are Matti Pellonpää, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Vladimír Dzurilla, Viktoria Brezhneva, Albert W. Tucker, and Alberto Burri.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Erik Nilsson ranks 356 out of 1,879. Before him are Staffan de Mistura (1947), Jan Troell (1931), Lars Hörmander (1931), Tomas Brolin (1969), Maria Gripe (1923), and Ola Ullsten (1931). After him are Marika Green (1943), Svante Nilsson (1460), Anders Sparrman (1748), Ivan Eklind (1905), Kalle Svensson (1925), and Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (1862).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Sweden

Among soccer players born in Sweden, Erik Nilsson ranks 14. Before him are Reino Börjesson (1929), Agne Simonsson (1935), Ove Kindvall (1943), Lennart Skoglund (1929), Ronnie Hellström (1949), and Tomas Brolin (1969). After him are Kalle Svensson (1925), Thomas Ravelli (1959), Björn Nordqvist (1942), Kennet Andersson (1967), Sven Rydell (1905), and Knut Nordahl (1920).

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