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Faas Wilkes

1923 - 2006

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Servaas "Faas" Wilkes (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfaːs ˈʋɪlkəs], 13 October 1923 – 15 August 2006) was a Dutch football forward, who earned a total of 38 caps for the Netherlands national team, in which he scored 35 goals (average 0.92 goals per game). However, for a prolonged period of his career, June 1949 through till March 1955, he was banned from the national team since the KNVB did not allow professional players to participate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faas Wilkes has received more than 151,227 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Faas Wilkes is the 782nd most popular soccer player (up from 873rd in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 381st in 2019) and the 36th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Faas Wilkes ranks 782 out of 16,880. Before him are Lorenzo Fernández, Norberto Boggio, Lucien Muller, Rihei Sano, Alf-Inge Håland, and Andrzej Szarmach. After him are Luis Fernández, Pauleta, Rafael van der Vaart, Jørgen Juve, Ángel Romano, and Ángel Di María.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Faas Wilkes ranks 146. Before him are Pahiño, Gordon Mitchell, Shmuel Eisenstadt, Edward Mulhare, Arthur Hiller, and Antonio Quarracino. After him are Igor Shafarevich, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Ahmet Ertegun, Diana Douglas, Marc Riboud, and Loriot. Among people deceased in 2006, Faas Wilkes ranks 125. Before him are Gérard Oury, Silva Kaputikyan, Malcolm Arnold, Ibolya Csák, Yitzhak Kaduri, and Rocío Dúrcal. After him are Seymour Martin Lipset, Wilson Pickett, Jack Williamson, Ahmet Ertegun, Richard Bright, and Dennis Weaver.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 377 out of 1,427. Before him are Gemma Frisius (1508), Maria van Oosterwijck (1630), Memphis Depay (1994), Adriaen van der Werff (1659), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), and Floris II, Count of Holland (1091). After him are Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468), Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Anna van Egmont (1533), Frans Brüggen (1934), Wim Ruska (1940), and Arnold Houbraken (1660).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Faas Wilkes ranks 36. Before him are Phillip Cocu (1970), Jordi Cruyff (1974), Aad de Mos (1947), Hans van Breukelen (1956), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (1983), and Memphis Depay (1994). After him are Rafael van der Vaart (1983), Ronald de Boer (1970), Willy van der Kuijlen (1946), Ruud Geels (1948), Rinus Israël (1942), and Dirk Kuyt (1980).

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