1910 - 1979
Giuseppe "Peppino" Meazza (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe meˈattsa]; 23 August 1910 – 21 August 1979), also known as il Balilla, was an Italian football manager and player. Throughout his career, he played mainly for Internazionale in the 1930s, scoring 242 goals in 365 games for the club, and winning three Serie A titles, as well as the Coppa Italia; he later also played for local rivals Milan, as well as Turin rivals Juventus, in addition to his spells with Varese and Atalanta. At international level, he led Italy to win two consecutive World Cups: in 1934 on home soil, and in 1938 as captain; he was named to the All-star Team and won the Golden Ball Award at the 1934 World Cup, as the tournament's best player. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Meazza has received more than 581,053 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Meazza is the 11th most popular soccer player, the 263rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 245th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Soccer Player.
Giuseppe Meazza was an Italian footballer who played as a forward. He is most famous for being the first player to score more than 300 goals in Italy's top division.
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Among soccer players, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 11 out of 16,923. Before him are Eusébio, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Diego Maradona, and Lev Yashin. After him are Zinedine Zidane, Cesare Maldini, George Best, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Zico, and Michel Platini.
1942 - 2014
HPI: 82.00
Rank: 5
1926 - 2014
HPI: 81.99
Rank: 6
1945 - Present
HPI: 81.75
Rank: 7
1945 - Present
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 8
1960 - 2020
HPI: 81.09
Rank: 9
1929 - 1990
HPI: 80.43
Rank: 10
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 11
1972 - Present
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 12
1932 - 2016
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 13
1946 - 2005
HPI: 77.94
Rank: 14
1895 - 1978
HPI: 77.68
Rank: 15
1953 - Present
HPI: 77.04
Rank: 16
1955 - Present
HPI: 76.90
Rank: 17
Among people born in 1910, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 5. Before him are Mother Teresa, Akira Kurosawa, Jacques Cousteau, and Irena Sendler. After him are Gloria Stuart, Robert K. Merton, Ingrid of Sweden, Django Reinhardt, Konrad Zuse, Jean Genet, and Paulette Goddard. Among people deceased in 1979, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 4. Before him are Josef Mengele, Park Chung-hee, and John Wayne. After him are Herbert Marcuse, Talcott Parsons, Nino Rota, Jean Renoir, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Jean Monnet, Dennis Gabor, and Sándor Kocsis.
1910 - 1997
HPI: 85.68
Rank: 1
1910 - 1998
HPI: 84.43
Rank: 2
1910 - 1997
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 3
1910 - 2008
HPI: 80.97
Rank: 4
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 5
1910 - 2010
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 6
1910 - 2003
HPI: 77.60
Rank: 7
1910 - 2000
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 8
1910 - 1953
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 9
1910 - 1995
HPI: 76.58
Rank: 10
1910 - 1986
HPI: 76.20
Rank: 11
1910 - 1990
HPI: 75.36
Rank: 12
1911 - 1979
HPI: 84.44
Rank: 1
1917 - 1979
HPI: 80.66
Rank: 2
1907 - 1979
HPI: 79.41
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 4
1898 - 1979
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 5
1902 - 1979
HPI: 78.58
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 7
1894 - 1979
HPI: 77.17
Rank: 8
1900 - 1979
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 9
1888 - 1979
HPI: 76.23
Rank: 10
1900 - 1979
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 12
Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 263 out of 4,088. Before him are Benvenuto Cellini (1500), Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Pope Fabian (200), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Pope Urban I (222), and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696). After him are Pope Benedict IX (1012), Pope Adrian I (700), Gianni Versace (1946), Pope Siricius (334), Longinus (100), and Pope Sixtus I (42).
1500 - 1571
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 257
1640 - 1703
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 258
200 - 250
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 259
1660 - 1725
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 260
222 - 230
HPI: 78.75
Rank: 261
1696 - 1770
HPI: 78.75
Rank: 262
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 263
1012 - 1055
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 264
700 - 795
HPI: 78.70
Rank: 265
1946 - 1997
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 266
334 - 399
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 267
100 - 100
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 268
42 - 124
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 269
Among soccer players born in Italy, Giuseppe Meazza ranks 1. After him are Cesare Maldini (1932), Paolo Maldini (1968), Roberto Baggio (1967), Giacinto Facchetti (1942), Paolo Rossi (1956), Silvio Piola (1913), Gianni Rivera (1943), Franco Baresi (1960), Francesco Totti (1976), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), and Alessandro Del Piero (1974).
1910 - 1979
HPI: 78.72
Rank: 1
1932 - 2016
HPI: 78.17
Rank: 2
1968 - Present
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 3
1967 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 4
1942 - 2006
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 5
1956 - 2020
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 6
1913 - 1996
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 72.33
Rank: 8
1960 - Present
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 9
1976 - Present
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 10
1978 - Present
HPI: 71.91
Rank: 11
1974 - Present
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 12