SOCCER PLAYER

Fernando Chalana

1959 - 2022

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Fernando Albino de Sousa Chalana (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du ʃɐˈlɐnɐ]; 10 February 1959 – 10 August 2022) was a Portuguese football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest talents of his era in Portuguese football, the diminutive left winger's main asset was his ball control and dribbling skills. His career, highly troubled by injuries, was mainly spent at Benfica, where he also later worked as a manager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fernando Chalana has received more than 162,259 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Fernando Chalana is the 2,160th most popular soccer player (up from 2,901st in 2019), the 308th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 324th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Fernando Chalana ranks 2,160 out of 21,273. Before him are Martin Hoffmann, Edgardo Bauza, Armand Penverne, Delfín Benítez Cáceres, Tsutomu Sonobe, and Sergio Livingstone. After him are Fred Pentland, Bernd Patzke, Omero Tognon, Jacky Munaron, Granit Xhaka, and Fernando Morena.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Fernando Chalana ranks 197. Before him are Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Jaime Rodríguez, Susanna Hoffs, Steven Knight, and Jorginho Putinatti. After him are Stephen Wolfram, Nizar Rayan, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Alexander Lebedev. Among people deceased in 2022, Fernando Chalana ranks 292. Before him are Clarence Gilyard, Sonny Barger, Mark Forest, Joseph Raz, Juan Diego, and Sally Kellerman. After him are Vesa-Matti Loiri, Robert Durst, Agostino Cacciavillan, Roger E. Mosley, Jean-Claude Mézières, and Herbert W. Franke.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Fernando Chalana ranks 308 out of 633. Before him are Cardinal-Infante Afonso of Portugal (1509), Fernão Lopes (1385), Manuel Cardoso (1566), António Marto (1947), Miguel Corte-Real (1448), and Diogo Freitas do Amaral (1941). After him are António Manoel de Vilhena (1663), João Moutinho (1986), Elisa Ferreira (1955), Florbela Espanca (1894), Rui Patrício (1988), and Ricardo Sá Pinto (1972).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Portugal

Among soccer players born in Portugal, Fernando Chalana ranks 38. Before him are Maniche (1977), Bernardo Silva (1994), José Augusto (1937), Vítor Pereira (1968), João Pinto (1971), and Nené (1949). After him are João Moutinho (1986), Rui Patrício (1988), Ricardo Sá Pinto (1972), Raul Meireles (1983), Beto (1982), and Rafael Leão (1999).

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