SOCCER PLAYER

Frans Janssens

1945 - 2024

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Frans Janssens (25 September 1945 – 8 January 2024) was a Belgian footballer who played as a forward, most notably for Lierse. He earned two caps for the Belgium national team, and participated in the 1970 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frans Janssens has received more than 20,471 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Frans Janssens is the 765th most popular soccer player, the 305th most popular biography from Belgium and the 10th most popular Belgian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 20k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Frans Janssens ranks 765 out of 21,273. Before him are Ferran Olivella, Rogério Ceni, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Akgün Kaçmaz, Oleg Salenko, and Andrey Arshavin. After him are Emerich Jenei, Orlando Peçanha, Kenneth Zohore, Arnfinn Bergmann, Antonio de la Cruz, and Kazu Naoki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Frans Janssens ranks 184. Before him are Chandrika Kumaratunga, Marianne Sägebrecht, Lasse Berghagen, Marek Grechuta, Billy Drago, and Michael Nouri. After him are Guy Bonnet, Basil Poledouris, Vinko Puljić, Don McLean, Everett McGill, and Edmund M. Clarke. Among people deceased in 2024, Frans Janssens ranks 136. Before him are Choe Thae-bok, James Herbert Brennan, Jürgen Moltmann, Antonio Skármeta, Sergei Novikov, and Rosie Reyes. After him are James Kottak, Tito Jackson, Levan Tediashvili, Guy Bonnet, Melanie, and Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Frans Janssens ranks 305 out of 1,190. Before him are Gustave de Molinari (1819), Michiel Coxie (1499), Arnold Geulincx (1624), Peter Snayers (1592), William of Moerbeke (1215), and Arthur Grumiaux (1921). After him are Stradanus (1523), James Weddell (1787), Odilon Polleunis (1943), Claude Piron (1931), Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine (967), and Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Belgium

Among soccer players born in Belgium, Frans Janssens ranks 10. Before him are Eden Hazard (1991), Herbert Wimmer (1944), Jan Ceulemans (1957), Thibaut Courtois (1992), Romelu Lukaku (1993), and Enzo Scifo (1966). After him are Odilon Polleunis (1943), Marc Wilmots (1969), Bernard Voorhoof (1910), Jean-Marc Bosman (1964), Franky Van der Elst (1961), and Wilfried Van Moer (1945).

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