SOCCER PLAYER

Ferenc Bene

1944 - 2006

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Ferenc Bene (17 December 1944 – 27 February 2006) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a striker for Újpesti Dózsa and Hungary. He was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, in which he was the top scorer of the tournament with 12 goals in just 5 matches. He is the sixth most prolific goalscorer in total matches in recorded history according to RSSSF with over 1425 goals scored in over 1480 matches, which results in a goal-per-match ratio of almost one. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferenc Bene has received more than 152,308 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ferenc Bene is the 368th most popular soccer player (down from 326th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 162nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ferenc Bene ranks 368 out of 21,273Before him are Takashi Takabayashi, Yasuo Suzuki, Kim Yong-sik, Tamotsu Asakura, Hisataka Okamoto, and Simone Inzaghi. After him are Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Mario Balotelli, Bixente Lizarazu, Jorge Solari, Ko Takamoro, and Emmanuel Adebayor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ferenc Bene ranks 126Before him are Marie-Christine Barrault, Jürgen Grabowski, Andris Bērziņš, Frank Oz, John Densmore, and Ian Wilmut. After him are Jane Hawking, Chris Patten, Roger Scruton, Agnes Baltsa, Robert C. Merton, and Petar Zhekov. Among people deceased in 2006, Ferenc Bene ranks 69Before him are Glenn Ford, Angelica Rozeanu, Joachim Fest, Telê Santana, Aaron Spelling, and Richard Fleischer. After him are Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Reinhart Koselleck, Floyd Patterson, Allen Carr, Sven Nykvist, and Shin Sang-ok.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ferenc Bene ranks 154 out of 1,077Before him are Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Ágnes Keleti (1921), Gusztáv Jány (1883), Ferenc Mádl (1931), Magda Szabó (1917), and Béla Balázs (1884). After him are Gyula Gömbös (1886), László Papp (1926), Edgar Ætheling (1051), Lajos Tichy (1935), Miklós Zrínyi (1620), and Árpád Göncz (1922).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Ferenc Bene ranks 13Before him are Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), György Sárosi (1912), and Gyula Lóránt (1923). After him are Lajos Tichy (1935), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), Ferenc Deák (1922), Jenő Buzánszky (1925), Miklós Fehér (1979), and Mihály Lantos (1928).