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SOCCER PLAYER

Francisco Gento

1933 - 2022

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Francisco "Paco" Gento López (21 October 1933 – 18 January 2022) was a Spanish footballer who played as an outside left. He is best known as the only football player to have won the most European Cup trophies in history by six titles with Real Madrid. A fast runner, Gento was referred to as the "Gale of the Cantabrian Sea" (Spanish: La Galerna del Cantábrico) in reference to his speed down the wing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Gento has received more than 806,887 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Francisco Gento is the 21st most popular soccer player (up from 31st in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Spain (up from 105th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Soccer Player.

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  • 810k

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  • 70.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Francisco Gento ranks 21 out of 16,880. Before him are Michel Platini, Cesare Maldini, Cristiano Ronaldo, Zico, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, and Luis Suárez. After him are Lionel Messi, Bobby Charlton, Raymond Kopa, Sándor Kocsis, Rivellino, and Mário Zagallo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Francisco Gento ranks 12. Before him are Roman Polanski, Montserrat Caballé, Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Charles K. Kao, and James Brown. After him are Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Claudio Abbado, Abolhassan Banisadr, Tinto Brass, and Philip Roth. Among people deceased in 2022, Francisco Gento ranks 12. Before him are Jean-Luc Godard, Jiang Zemin, Vangelis, Sidney Poitier, Monica Vitti, and Leonid Kravchuk. After him are Thích Nhất Hạnh, Kane Tanaka, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Madeleine Albright.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Gento ranks 71 out of 2,932. Before him are Florentino Pérez (1947), Ferdinand VII of Spain (1784), Amancio Ortega (1936), Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895), Louis I of Spain (1707), and Luis Suárez (1935). After him are Lucan (39), Muhammad XII of Granada (1459), Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475), Alfonso XII of Spain (1857), Abbas ibn Firnas (810), and Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Spain

Among soccer players born in Spain, Francisco Gento ranks 3. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895) and Luis Suárez (1935). After him are Ricardo Zamora (1901), Miguel Muñoz (1922), Xavi (1980), Carles Puyol (1978), Andrés Iniesta (1984), Telmo Zarra (1921), Carles Rexach (1947), Luis Enrique (1970), and Iker Casillas (1981).

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