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Grzegorz Lato

1950 - Today

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Grzegorz Bolesław Lato (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡʐɛɡɔʐ ˈlatɔ]; born 8 April 1950) is a Polish former professional football player and manager who played as a winger. He was a member of Poland's golden generation of football players who rose to fame in the 1970s and early 80s. Over a decade, he represented Poland at five major tournaments starting with gold at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich and ending with a third-place finish at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grzegorz Lato has received more than 467,068 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Grzegorz Lato is the 153rd most popular soccer player (up from 160th in 2019), the 176th most popular biography from Poland (up from 213th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Soccer Player.

Grzegorz Lato is most famous for being a former Polish footballer who was a member of the Polish national team that won the gold medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Grzegorz Lato ranks 153 out of 21,273. Before him are Arie Haan, Kakuichi Mimura, Bora Milutinović, Ivica Osim, Tameo Ide, and Gunnar Gren. After him are Pavel Nedvěd, Karim Benzema, Thierry Henry, Ademir de Menezes, Andrés Iniesta, and Didier Drogba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Grzegorz Lato ranks 35. Before him are Randy Quaid, William Hurt, William H. Macy, Daniel Auteuil, Choe Ryong-hae, and Morgan Fairchild. After him are Chris Norman, Jörg Haider, Jody Williams, Flavio Briatore, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, and Georg Bednorz.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Grzegorz Lato ranks 176 out of 1,694. Before him are Andrzej Duda (1972), Günther Anders (1902), Isabella Jagiellon (1519), John I Albert (1459), Albert Marth (1828), and Marian Rejewski (1905). After him are Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Casimir I the Restorer (1016), Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866), Günter Blobel (1936), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), and Adolph Menzel (1815).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Poland

Among soccer players born in Poland, Grzegorz Lato ranks 3. Before him are Miroslav Klose (1978), and Robert Lewandowski (1988). After him are Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Udo Lattek (1935), Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Lukas Podolski (1985), Włodzimierz Lubański (1947), Włodzimierz Smolarek (1957), Jerzy Dudek (1973), and Andrzej Szarmach (1950).

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