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Gyula Grosics

1926 - 2014

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Gyula Grosics (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɟulɒ ˈɡroʃit͡ʃ]; 4 February 1926 – 13 June 2014) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungary national football team and was part of the "Golden Team" of the 1950s. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he was thought to be the first goalkeeper to play as the sweeper-keeper. Grosics was nicknamed "Black Panther" (Hungarian: Fekete Párduc), because he wore black clothing while playing. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gyula Grosics has received more than 174,278 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Gyula Grosics is the 181st most popular soccer player (down from 165th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 100th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Gyula Grosics is most famous for his accomplishments with the Hungarian National Team. He was a member of the Hungarian National Team that won the bronze medal at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. He also played in the 1958 World Cup and the 1962 World Cup.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gyula Grosics ranks 181 out of 16,880Before him are Sergio Ramos, Kevin Keegan, Harald Schumacher, Helmut Schön, David Villa, and Oldřich Nejedlý. After him are José Luis Chilavert, Michael Ballack, Carlos Bilardo, Andrea Pirlo, Arie Haan, and Antonio Conte.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Gyula Grosics ranks 71Before him are Richard Matheson, George Habash, Joan Sutherland, César Pelli, Shohei Imamura, and Kim Jae-gyu. After him are Henry Way Kendall, Jean-Pierre Serre, Masatoshi Koshiba, Alan Greenspan, Andrew Schally, and John Berger. Among people deceased in 2014, Gyula Grosics ranks 49Before him are Pete Seeger, Dobrica Ćosić, Stephanie Kwolek, Udo Jürgens, James Garner, and Ernesto Laclau. After him are Hans Hollein, Gerald Edelman, Dale T. Mortensen, Oscar de la Renta, Yozo Aoki, and Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Gyula Grosics ranks 111 out of 866Before him are John Corvinus (1473), Pál Teleki (1879), János Kornai (1928), Pál Schmitt (1942), George Pólya (1887), and Stephen IV of Hungary (1133). After him are Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872), Cornel Wilde (1912), Saint Emeric of Hungary (1000), Ephraim Kishon (1924), John Harsanyi (1920), and István Tisza (1861).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Gyula Grosics ranks 9Before him are László Kubala (1927), Flórián Albert (1941), Béla Guttmann (1899), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), and József Bozsik (1925). After him are Gusztáv Sebes (1906), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), Ferenc Bene (1944), Gyula Lóránt (1923), György Sárosi (1912), and Ferenc Deák (1922).