SOCCER PLAYER

Gianfranco Zola

1966 - Today

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Gianfranco Zola (Italian pronunciation: [dʒaɱˈfraŋko dˈdzɔːla]; born 5 July 1966) is an Italian football executive, manager, and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He is currently in charge as vice-president of the Lega Pro, the Italian Serie C football league. He spent the first decade of his playing career playing in Italy, most notably with Napoli, alongside Diego Maradona and Careca, where he was able to win the Serie A title, and at Parma, where he won the Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gianfranco Zola has received more than 3,392,783 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Gianfranco Zola is the 412th most popular soccer player (down from 389th in 2019), the 1,610th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,695th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gianfranco Zola ranks 412 out of 21,273Before him are Eden Hazard, Gyula Zsengellér, Petar Zhekov, Branko Oblak, Yoshimatsu Oyama, and Carlos Bianchi. After him are Pablo Dorado, Saizo Saito, Steven Gerrard, Patrick Kluivert, Preben Elkjær, and Seishiro Shimatani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Gianfranco Zola ranks 33Before him are Sinéad O'Connor, Janet Jackson, Billy Zane, Zack Snyder, Dean Cain, and Kiefer Sutherland. After him are Emmanuelle Seigner, Yoshihiro Togashi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Dejan Savićević, and Jan Železný.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 1,610 out of 5,161Before him are Silvia Federici (1942), Michele Alboreto (1956), Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421), Ornella Vanoni (1934), Francesco del Cossa (1436), and Pope Pontian (200). After him are Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770), Antonio Cesti (1623), Bernardino Telesio (1509), Claudio Merulo (1533), and Francesco Gasparini (1668).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 38Before him are Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Gianpiero Combi (1902), Marco Materazzi (1973), Simone Inzaghi (1976), Mario Balotelli (1990), and Giuseppe Bergomi (1963). After him are Thiago Alcântara (1991), Daniele Massaro (1961), Nereo Rocco (1912), Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), Walter Mazzarri (1961), and Vincenzo Montella (1974).