SOCCER PLAYER

Helmut Schön

1915 - 1996

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Helmut Schön (15 September 1915 – 23 February 1996) was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of the West Germany national team in four consecutive World Cup tournaments, including winning the title in 1974, losing in the final in 1966, and coming in third in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Schön has received more than 235,258 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Helmut Schön is the 351st most popular soccer player (down from 178th in 2019), the 1,427th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,071st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Soccer Player.

Helmut Schön is most famous for being the coach of the German National Soccer Team that won the World Cup in 1974.

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  • 59.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Helmut Schön ranks 351 out of 21,273. Before him are Toni Kroos, Youri Djorkaeff, Sepp Herberger, Telê Santana, Petr Čech, and Artur Jorge. After him are Hideo Sakai, Jürgen Grabowski, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Takashi Kasahara, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, and Antonio Carbajal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Helmut Schön ranks 53. Before him are Modibo Keïta, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Terence Young, Kaoru Ishikawa, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Peter Medawar. After him are Miroslav Filipović, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Branko Ćopić, Santiago Carrillo, and Henry Taube. Among people deceased in 1996, Helmut Schön ranks 61. Before him are Rafael Kubelík, Frida Boccara, Lucio Fulci, Obdulio Varela, María Casares, and Brigitte Helm. After him are Hideo Sakai, Hans Blumenberg, Piet Hein, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, and Virginia Henderson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 1,427 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Kuhnau (1660), Michael Wolgemut (1434), Karl Richter (1926), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823), and Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861). After him are Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), Jürgen Grabowski (1944), Méret Oppenheim (1913), Albert II, Margrave of Meissen (1240), Princess Sophie of Saxony (1845), and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 32. Before him are Jens Lehmann (1969), Uli Stielike (1954), Sepp Piontek (1940), Dettmar Cramer (1925), Toni Kroos (1990), and Sepp Herberger (1897). After him are Jürgen Grabowski (1944), Jupp Derwall (1927), Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (1948), Ottmar Walter (1924), Philipp Lahm (1983), and Bastian Schweinsteiger (1984).

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