SOCCER PLAYER

Héctor Scarone

1898 - 1967

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Héctor Pedro Scarone Berreta (26 November 1898 – 4 April 1967) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as inside forward. Known as "the Gardel of Football" and El Mago ("the Magician") due to his extraordinary skills with the ball, Scarone was considered one of the best players in the world during his time. He was crowned world champion three times, after winning the editions of the 1924 and 1928 Olympic football tournaments, along with the first World Cup in 1930.At club level, Scarone spent most of his career with Nacional, with which he won 21 official titles. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Héctor Scarone has received more than 116,093 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Héctor Scarone is the 160th most popular soccer player (down from 128th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 8th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

Héctor Scarone is most famous for being a member of the "Gang of Four" who assassinated Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Héctor Scarones by language

Over the past year Héctor Scarone has had the most page views in the with 16,503 views, followed by English (15,680), and Italian (7,968). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (436.22%), Uzbek (125.65%), and Malagasy (105.88%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Héctor Scarone ranks 160 out of 21,273. Before him are Pavel Nedvěd, Karim Benzema, Thierry Henry, Ademir de Menezes, Andrés Iniesta, and Didier Drogba. After him are Davor Šuker, Dennis Bergkamp, Iker Casillas, Bobby Robson, Kevin Keegan, and Laurent Blanc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Héctor Scarone ranks 46. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi, Georges Dumézil, Therese Neumann, Latife Uşşaki, Konrad Henlein, and Vicente Aleixandre. After him are Totò, Fritz Zwicky, Peggy Guggenheim, Julius Schreck, Joseph Murphy, and Felix Kersten. Among people deceased in 1967, Héctor Scarone ranks 33. Before him are Françoise Dorléac, Shigeru Yoshida, Norman Angell, Hermann Joseph Muller, Brian Epstein, and Robert van Gulik. After him are Jaroslav Heyrovský, Ossip Zadkine, Totò, John Cockcroft, Harald Quandt, and Ejnar Hertzsprung.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Héctor Scarone ranks 10 out of 444. Before him are Eduardo Galeano (1940), José Nasazzi (1901), Alcides Ghiggia (1926), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), Nando Parrado (1949), and José Leandro Andrade (1901). After him are Luis Suárez (1987), Héctor Castro (1904), Óscar Tabárez (1947), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), and José Gervasio Artigas (1764).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Héctor Scarone ranks 5. Before him are José Nasazzi (1901), Alcides Ghiggia (1926), Juan Alberto Schiaffino (1925), and José Leandro Andrade (1901). After him are Luis Suárez (1987), Héctor Castro (1904), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), José Santamaría (1929), and Pedro Rocha (1942).

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