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Franco Baresi

Italian association football player

1960 - 2026

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His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 56 in 2024). Franco Baresi is the 80th most popular soccer player (down from 69th in 2024), the 765th most popular biography from Italy (down from 669th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Franco Baresi is most famous for his role as a defender in the Italian national team.

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Franco Baresi ranks #80 of 24,321 Soccer Players worldwide, placing them among the top 1% of the profession.

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Franco Baresi's biography appears in 54 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 97% of all Soccer Players.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Franco Baresi ranks 77 out of 24,321. Before him are Gianni Rivera, Billy Wright, Nílton Santos, Giacinto Facchetti, Arthur Friedenreich, and Fritz Walter. After him are George Weah, Rivaldo, Gianluigi Buffon, José Leandro Andrade, Gabriel Batistuta, and Paul Breitner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Franco Baresi ranks 26. Before him are Hugh Grant, Tilda Swinton, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Samia Suluhu Hassan, Colin Firth, and Roland Ratzenberger. After him are Isaac Herzog, Rudi Völler, Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, James Comey, and Ebrahim Raisi. Among people deceased in 2026, Franco Baresi ranks 14. Before him are Ada Yonath, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Erich von Däniken, Mircea Lucescu, François Englert, and Bonnie Tyler. After him are Sam Neill, Rifaat al-Assad, Edmund Phelps, Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, and David Hockney.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Baresi ranks 765 out of 5,905. Before him are Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510), Giorgetto Giugiaro (1938), Marsilius of Padua (1275), Rosso Fiorentino (1494), Francesco Guardi (1712), and Tancred, Prince of Galilee (1072). After him are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723), Gianni Agnelli (1921), Arnolfo di Cambio (1240), Prince Napoléon Bonaparte (1822), Dino Buzzati (1906), and Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110).

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Among Soccer Players In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Franco Baresi ranks 11. Before him are Paolo Rossi (1956), Filippo Inzaghi (1973), Francesco Totti (1976), Silvio Piola (1913), Gianni Rivera (1943), and Giacinto Facchetti (1942). After him are Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), Roberto Mancini (1964), Sandro Mazzola (1942), Simone Inzaghi (1976), and Antonio Conte (1969).

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