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SOCCER PLAYER

Flávio Costa

1906 - 1999

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Flávio Rodrigues da Costa (14 September 1906 – 22 November 1999) was a Brazilian football player and manager. He managed the Rio de Janeiro clubs Vasco da Gama and Flamengo, as well as Colo Colo of Chile, and FC Porto of Portugal. Costa coached the Brazilian squad at the 1950 FIFA World Cup; the loss against Uruguay has been described as Brazil's greatest humiliation of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flávio Costa has received more than 46,855 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Flávio Costa is the 1,200th most popular soccer player (down from 1,007th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 121st most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

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  • 50.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Flávio Costa ranks 1,200 out of 16,880Before him are Tadao Kobayashi, Faustino Asprilla, Yevhen Rudakov, Fernando Couto, Hansi Müller, and José Sanfilippo. After him are Tokutaro Ukon, Márcio Amoroso, Julio Pérez, Roberto Rosato, Károly Palotai, and Nílton de Sordi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Flávio Costa ranks 176Before him are Pietro Serantoni, Renate Müller, R. K. Narayan, Dmitry Likhachov, Tribhuvan of Nepal, and Agniya Barto. After him are Eleanor Hibbert, John D. Rockefeller III, Buddhadasa, Nazim al-Qudsi, František Svoboda, and Eraldo Monzeglio. Among people deceased in 1999, Flávio Costa ranks 125Before him are Milt Jackson, Carlos Hathcock, Jacques Lecoq, Primo Nebiolo, Dmitry Likhachov, and Bing Xin. After him are Riccardo Freda, Maxim Munzuk, Louis Boyer, Umberto Maglioli, Grete Stern, and Richard Kiley.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Flávio Costa ranks 285 out of 2,067Before him are Djalminha (1970), Müller (1966), Morena Baccarin (1979), Altair Gomes de Figueiredo (1938), Edmundo (1971), and João Braz de Aviz (1947). After him are Márcio Amoroso (1974), Max Cavalera (1969), Nílton de Sordi (1931), Oreco (1932), Ademir da Guia (1942), and Renato Portaluppi (1962).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Flávio Costa ranks 121Before him are Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus (1965), Emerson (1976), Djalminha (1970), Müller (1966), Altair Gomes de Figueiredo (1938), and Edmundo (1971). After him are Márcio Amoroso (1974), Nílton de Sordi (1931), Oreco (1932), Ademir da Guia (1942), Renato Portaluppi (1962), and Paulo Cézar Caju (1949).