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SOCCER PLAYER

Giampiero Boniperti

1928 - 2021

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Giampiero Boniperti (Italian pronunciation: [dʒamˈpjɛːro boniˈpɛrti]; 4 July 1928 – 18 June 2021) was an Italian footballer who played his entire 15-season career at Juventus between 1946 and 1961, winning five Serie A titles and two Coppa Italia titles. He also played for the Italy national team at international level and took part in the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup finals, as well as the 1952 Summer Olympics with Italy. After retirement from professional football, Boniperti was a CEO and chairman of Juventus and, later, a deputy to the European Parliament.A forward, Boniperti is regarded by several pundits, including Mario Sconcerti, as one of Italy's and Juventus's greatest ever players, and is considered by some in the sport, such as Bruno Nicolè, to be Italy's greatest player of all time; with 182 goals in all competitions, Boniperti was the highest goalscorer in Juventus history for more than 40 years, until his record was bested by Alessandro Del Piero on 10 January 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giampiero Boniperti has received more than 329,512 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Giampiero Boniperti is the 150th most popular soccer player (up from 214th in 2019), the 1,126th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,266th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Giampiero Boniperti is most famous for his career with Juventus. He was the captain of the club for many years and helped them win the Serie A title in 1947, 1952, 1953, and back-to-back titles in 1955 and 1956. He is the club's all-time leading scorer with 216 goals.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Giampiero Boniperti ranks 150 out of 16,880Before him are Rudi Völler, Kenny Dalglish, José Leandro Andrade, Dennis Bergkamp, Iker Casillas, and Franck Ribéry. After him are Zizinho, Gunnar Gren, Felix Magath, José Altafini, Ivica Osim, and Wim Jansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Giampiero Boniperti ranks 61Before him are Pat Hitchcock, Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Kåre Willoch, Karlheinz Böhm, Capucine, and Adam West. After him are James Ivory, Reynaldo Bignone, Manfred Rommel, Alan J. Pakula, Jim Lovell, and János Kornai. Among people deceased in 2021, Giampiero Boniperti ranks 72Before him are Pat Hitchcock, Norodom Ranariddh, Kåre Willoch, Bernard Tapie, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Hal Holbrook. After him are Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Nelson Freire, Richard Donner, Ei-ichi Negishi, János Kornai, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giampiero Boniperti ranks 1,126 out of 4,668Before him are Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), Tarpeia (-800), Carlo Ginzburg (1939), Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy (1636), Dino Risi (1916), and Milonia Caesonia (7). After him are Marcomer (400), Archduke John of Austria (1782), Elsa Morante (1912), Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus (-600), Francesco Rosi (1922), and Giuseppe Tornatore (1956).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Giampiero Boniperti ranks 18Before him are Franco Baresi (1960), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), Filippo Inzaghi (1973), Luigi Riva (1944), Alessandro Del Piero (1974), and Sandro Mazzola (1942). After him are Andrea Pirlo (1979), Antonio Conte (1969), Vittorio Pozzo (1886), Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), and Valentino Mazzola (1919).