SOCCER PLAYER

František Plánička

1904 - 1996

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František Plánička (Czech pronunciation: [ˈfraɲcɪʃɛk ˈplaːɲɪtʃka]; 2 June 1904 – 20 July 1996) was a Czech football goalkeeper and one of the most honoured players in the history of Czechoslovak football. He played all his career for Slavia Prague, during which time the club won the Czech league eight times and the Mitropa Cup once. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of František Plánička has received more than 125,688 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). František Plánička is the 266th most popular soccer player (down from 237th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 156th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Czech Soccer Player.

František Plánička is most famous for his work on the "Prague School" of structuralism.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, František Plánička ranks 266 out of 21,273. Before him are Patrick Vieira, Lorenzo Buffon, Helmut Haller, Osvaldo Ardiles, Gary Lineker, and Quique Setién. After him are Kazimierz Deyna, Abe Lenstra, Fabien Barthez, Ruud Geels, Thomas Müller, and Takashi Kano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, František Plánička ranks 52. Before him are Héctor Castro, Karl Rahner, Nikolai Kuznetsov, John Gielgud, Gerhard Herzberg, and George Balanchine. After him are Charles J. Pedersen, Serge Lifar, Donald O. Hebb, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Moshé Feldenkrais, and Josef Bühler. Among people deceased in 1996, František Plánička ranks 53. Before him are P. L. Travers, Ernesto Geisel, Nevill Francis Mott, Martin Balsam, George Davis Snell, and Marianne Bachmeier. After him are Geoffrey Wilkinson, Rafael Kubelík, Frida Boccara, Lucio Fulci, Obdulio Varela, and María Casares.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, František Plánička ranks 150 out of 1,200. Before him are Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Eduard Hanslick (1825), Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1547), and Josef Mysliveček (1737). After him are Milada Horáková (1901), Adolf Schärf (1890), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Jan Koller (1973), Franz Benda (1709), and Josef Čapek (1887).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, František Plánička ranks 6. Before him are Antonín Panenka (1948), Josef Masopust (1931), Matthias Sindelar (1903), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), and Oldřich Nejedlý (1909). After him are Jan Koller (1973), Hugo Meisl (1881), Petr Čech (1982), Ivo Viktor (1942), Antonín Puč (1907), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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