SOCCER PLAYER

Giovanni Ferrari

1907 - 1982

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Giovanni Ferrari (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni ferˈraːri]; 6 December 1907 – 2 December 1982) was an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder/inside forward on the left. He is regarded as one of the best players of his generation, having won the Serie A 8 times, as well as two consecutive FIFA World Cup titles (in 1934 and 1938) with the Italy national football team. Along with Giuseppe Meazza and Eraldo Monzeglio, he is one of only three Italian players to have won two World Cups.A creative, advanced midfield playmaker, Ferrari was a strong, physically fit, hardworking, versatile, and well-rounded footballer, as well as being a generous team player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Ferrari has received more than 141,950 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Giovanni Ferrari is the 307th most popular soccer player (down from 241st in 2019), the 1,440th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,424th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Giovanni Ferraris by language

Over the past year Giovanni Ferrari has had the most page views in the with 22,408 views, followed by English (18,791), and Portuguese (3,741). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Korean (317.56%), Latvian (102.73%), and Malagasy (75.25%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Giovanni Ferrari ranks 307 out of 21,273. Before him are Brian Clough, Waichiro Omura, Wesley Sneijder, José Santamaría, Julen Lopetegui, and Valentino Mazzola. After him are Claudio Gentile, Pedro Rocha, Sepp Piontek, Josep Samitier, Vujadin Boškov, and José Antonio Camacho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Giovanni Ferrari ranks 66. Before him are Sigvard Bernadotte, Ernesto Geisel, Miklós Rózsa, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Chūya Nakahara, and Lee Miller. After him are Emilie Schindler, Horia Sima, Mehdi Bazargan, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Cesar Romero, and Pierre Mendès France. Among people deceased in 1982, Giovanni Ferrari ranks 60. Before him are Eduardo Frei Montalva, Mario Del Monaco, Vinoba Bhave, Philip Noel-Baker, Alma Reville, and Marty Feldman. After him are Anna German, Otto Hofmann, Colin Chapman, Adolf Heusinger, Kristján Eldjárn, and Leopold Trepper.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Ferrari ranks 1,440 out of 5,161. Before him are Coluccio Salutati (1331), Giuseppe Cesari (1568), Valentino Mazzola (1919), Francis V, Duke of Modena (1819), Pietro Gasparri (1852), and Pompeius Strabo (-135). After him are Gaetano Mosca (1858), Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1412), Dicaearchus (-350), Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), Frank Lentini (1889), and Gaetano Bresci (1869).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Giovanni Ferrari ranks 32. Before him are Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Alessandro Nesta (1976), Angelo Schiavio (1905), Gennaro Gattuso (1978), Salvatore Schillaci (1964), and Valentino Mazzola (1919). After him are Gianpiero Combi (1902), Marco Materazzi (1973), Simone Inzaghi (1976), Mario Balotelli (1990), Giuseppe Bergomi (1963), and Gianfranco Zola (1966).

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