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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 213,940 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Helmut Schön is the 178th most popular soccer player (down from 123rd in 2019), the 1,071st most popular biography from Germany (down from 854th in 2019) and the 16th 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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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Helmut Schön ranks 178 out of 16,880Before him are Laurent Blanc, Jean-Marie Pfaff, Samuel Eto'o, Sergio Ramos, Kevin Keegan, and Harald Schumacher. After him are David Villa, Oldřich Nejedlý, Gyula Grosics, José Luis Chilavert, Michael Ballack, and Carlos Bilardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Helmut Schön ranks 42Before him are Aziz Nesin, Bob Kane, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Chung Ju-yung, Denis Thatcher, and Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland. After him are Mario Del Monaco, Franz Josef Strauss, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Alan Watts, Kaoru Ishikawa, and Terence Young. Among people deceased in 1996, Helmut Schön ranks 41Before him are Masaki Kobayashi, António de Spínola, Ademir de Menezes, Claudette Colbert, Victor Ambartsumian, and George Davis Snell. After him are Gladwyn Jebb, Virginia Henderson, Georges Duby, William Vickrey, P. L. Travers, and Ernesto Geisel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 1,071 out of 6,142Before him are Carl Gustav Hempel (1905), Killing of Peter Fechter (1944), Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Christina of Saxony (1461), Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (1797), and Harald Schumacher (1954). After him are Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg (1484), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Lale Andersen (1905), Karl Bühler (1879), Wilhelm Gustloff (1895), and Carl Reinecke (1824).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Helmut Schön ranks 16Before him are Rudi Völler (1960), Felix Magath (1953), Berti Vogts (1946), Günter Netzer (1944), Wolfgang Overath (1943), and Harald Schumacher (1954). After him are Michael Ballack (1976), Helmut Rahn (1929), Manuel Neuer (1986), Mesut Özil (1988), Helmut Haller (1939), and Bert Trautmann (1923).