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Guy Thys

1922 - 2003

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Guy Jean-Leonard 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 87,642 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Guy Thys is the 99th most popular coach (up from 103rd in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 301st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Coach.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COACHES

Among coaches, Guy Thys ranks 99 out of 471. Before him are Luis de la Fuente, Edmund Conen, Georges Leekens, Zlatko Dalić, Jozef Adamec, and Avram Grant. After him are Şenol Güneş, Stefano Pioli, Dušan Bajević, Karel Brückner, Srečko Katanec, and Lucien Favre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Guy Thys ranks 123. Before him are Saad el-Shazly, Hussein Onn, Bernardin Gantin, Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, and Guy Hamilton. After him are Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Juan Antonio Bardem, Pierre Hadot, Alexander Zinoviev, Taro Kagawa, and Yuri Averbakh. Among people deceased in 2003, Guy Thys ranks 77. Before him are Michael Jeter, Walt Whitman Rostow, Eizo Yuguchi, Valeriy Brumel, Fritz Fischer, and Ramón Serrano Suñer. After him are Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Janko Bobetko, Mohammed Dib, Kinji Fukasaku, David Hemmings, and André Claveau.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Guy Thys ranks 242 out of 1,190. Before him are Frans Masereel (1889), Juliana of Liège (1193), Leo Tindemans (1922), Jean Rey (1902), Romelu Lukaku (1993), and Emile Vandervelde (1866). After him are Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Antoine Wiertz (1806), Guillaume Lekeu (1870), Jacques Feyder (1885), Rembert Dodoens (1517), and François Duquesnoy (1597).

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Among COACHES In Belgium

Among coaches born in Belgium, Guy Thys ranks 4. Before him are Eric Gerets (1954), Raymond Goethals (1921), and Georges Leekens (1949). After him are Hugo Broos (1952), René Vandereycken (1953), Robert Waseige (1939), and Tom Saintfiet (1973).

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