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Guy Thys

1922 - 2003

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Guy Thys (6 December 1922 – 1 August 2003) was a Belgian football manager, mostly known for being the most successful manager in the history of the Belgium national football team as he managed to lead the national side to their only UEFA European Championship final in 1980 and a fourth–place finish at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Thys has received more than 80,306 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Guy Thys is the 103rd most popular coach (down from 84th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 244th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Coach.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 54.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Guy Thys ranks 103 out of 328Before him are Miljan Miljanić, Jozef Adamec, David Moyes, Walter Zenga, Lars Lagerbäck, and Vladimir Petrović. After him are Dušan Bajević, Hennes Weisweiler, Dan Petrescu, Zlatko Dalić, Tatiana Tarasova, and André Villas-Boas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Guy Thys ranks 154Before him are Margherita Hack, John Edward Williams, Anatoli Papanov, Anker Jørgensen, Stanley Schachter, and Dilip Kumar. After him are Stephen Toulmin, Eugene Stoner, Susanna Agnelli, Elissa Aalto, Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, and András Hegedüs. Among people deceased in 2003, Guy Thys ranks 98Before him are Wendy Hiller, Qusay Hussein, Foday Sankoh, Marie Trintignant, Massimo Girotti, and Mario Merz. After him are Eizo Yuguchi, Jaba Ioseliani, Kató Lomb, Neil Postman, Jacques Deray, and Bernard Williams.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Guy Thys ranks 301 out of 1,019Before him are Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (1630), Charles Eugène de Croÿ (1651), Jean Absil (1893), John Berchmans (1599), Enzo Scifo (1966), and Godfrey I, Count of Louvain (1060). After him are George Sarton (1884), Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1217), Gustave de Molinari (1819), José van Dam (1940), Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine (967), and Johnny Galecki (1975).

Among COACHES In Belgium

Among coaches born in Belgium, Guy Thys ranks 4Before him are Eric Gerets (1954), Raymond Goethals (1921), and Georges Leekens (1949). After him are Robert Waseige (1939), René Vandereycken (1953), and Hugo Broos (1952).