SOCCER PLAYER

Horst Blankenburg

1947 - Today

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Horst Blankenburg (born 10 July 1947) is a German former professional footballer, who played as a sweeper. He is best known for the early 1970s period, during which he played for Ajax and won the European Cup three times (1971, 1972, 1973), the European Super Cup twice (1972, 1973), the Intercontinental Cup once (1972) and the Dutch championship and the KNVB Cup twice. In 1976, he won the German Cup and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1977 with Hamburger SV. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Blankenburg has received more than 73,628 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Horst Blankenburg is the 1,552nd most popular soccer player (down from 1,360th in 2019), the 3,591st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,464th in 2019) and the 117th most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 74k

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  • 58.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Horst Blankenburg ranks 1,552 out of 21,273. Before him are Johann Horvath, Kálmán Mészöly, Fahrudin Jusufi, Luuk de Jong, Teodoro Fernández, and Ángel Melogno. After him are Burak Yılmaz, Juan Carlos Calvo, Árpád Weisz, Andrea Barzagli, Juan Evaristo, and Colin Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Horst Blankenburg ranks 325. Before him are Kiki Dee, Robert M. Parker Jr., Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Maria del Mar Bonet, Elena Belova, and Octavia E. Butler. After him are Anny Duperey, Hans-Jürgen Kreische, Betty Buckley, Giancarlo Minardi, Julien Clerc, and Robert Kerman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Blankenburg ranks 3,591 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerald Götting (1923), Ilse Steppat (1917), Christian Schad (1894), Franz Kaiser (1891), Karl Muck (1859), and Rob Pilatus (1965). After him are Paul von Rusdorf (1385), Karl Christian Bruhns (1830), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), Theodor Körner (1791), and Fritz Buchloh (1909).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Horst Blankenburg ranks 117. Before him are Franz John (1872), Herbert Erhardt (1930), Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Uwe Bein (1960), Klaus Toppmöller (1951), and Stanislaus Kobierski (1910). After him are Hans-Jürgen Kreische (1947), Fritz Szepan (1907), Julian Draxler (1993), Dieter Herzog (1946), Leroy Sané (1996), and André Schürrle (1990).

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