SOCCER PLAYER

Flórián Albert

1941 - 2011

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Flórián György Albert (15 September 1941 – 31 October 2011) was a Hungarian professional football player, manager and sports official, who was named European Footballer of the Year in 1967. Nicknamed "The Emperor", he played as a forward, and has been described as one of the most elegant footballers of all time. A club legend of Ferencvárosi TC, Albert joined the team as a schoolboy and spent his whole playing career at Fradi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Flórián Albert has received more than 414,978 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Flórián Albert is the 56th most popular soccer player (down from 46th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Flórián Albert was a Hungarian politician and the only person to have served as both Prime Minister and President of Hungary. He was also the only person to have been elected twice in row as Prime Minister, serving from 1931 to 1932 and from 1939 to 1940.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

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  • 67.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Flórián Albert ranks 56 out of 21,273. Before him are Stanley Matthews, László Kubala, Mario Kempes, Junji Nishikawa, Ricardo Zamora, and Fernando Santos. After him are Roberto Carlos, Francisco Gento, Roberto Mancini, Uwe Seeler, Luis Suárez, and David Beckham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Flórián Albert ranks 33. Before him are Julia Kristeva, Jon Lord, Tadao Ando, Jon Brower Minnoch, Laura Antonelli, and Fausto Cercignani. After him are Dick Cheney, Nick Nolte, Faye Dunaway, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, Paul Simon, and Nathalie Delon. Among people deceased in 2011, Flórián Albert ranks 17. Before him are Wangari Maathai, Sócrates, Sathya Sai Baba, Joe Frazier, Annie Girardot, and Ágota Kristóf. After him are Rudolf Mössbauer, Ramiz Alia, Simon van der Meer, Willard Boyle, Dennis Ritchie, and John Barry.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Flórián Albert ranks 48 out of 1,077. Before him are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Zoltán Kodály (1882), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), László Kubala (1927), and Imre Lakatos (1922). After him are Lajos Kossuth (1802), Béla III of Hungary (1148), Emmerich Kálmán (1882), Joseph Pulitzer (1847), Emeric Thököly (1657), and Stephen V of Hungary (1239).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Flórián Albert ranks 4. Before him are Ferenc Puskás (1927), Sándor Kocsis (1929), and László Kubala (1927). After him are Béla Guttmann (1899), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), György Sárosi (1912), and Gyula Lóránt (1923).

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