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Jean-Marie Pfaff

1953 - Today

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Jean-Marie Pfaff (born 4 December 1953) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper who spent most of his professional career with Beveren and Bayern Munich. Pfaff was capped 64 times playing for Belgium, and participated at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and 1986 FIFA World Cup tournaments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Marie Pfaff has received more than 366,648 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Jean-Marie Pfaff is the 119th most popular soccer player (up from 173rd in 2019), the 93rd most popular biography from Belgium (up from 136th in 2019) and the most popular Belgian Soccer Player.

Jean-Marie Pfaff is most famous for his contributions to the field of molecular biology, specifically his work on the study of DNA and RNA.

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  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jean-Marie Pfaff ranks 119 out of 21,273. Before him are Didier Deschamps, Jorge Jesus, César Luis Menotti, Berti Vogts, Luis Enrique, and Luka Modrić. After him are Arthur Friedenreich, Alessandro Del Piero, Nils Liedholm, Fabio Cannavaro, Miroslav Klose, and Paulo Roberto Falcão.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Jean-Marie Pfaff ranks 28. Before him are Paul Krugman, Fatih Terim, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Daniel Passarella, Cyndi Lauper, and Mike Oldfield. After him are Paulo Roberto Falcão, Malcolm Young, Ségolène Royal, Peter Stormare, Manuel Pellegrini, and Hulk Hogan.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jean-Marie Pfaff ranks 93 out of 1,190. Before him are Matilda of Flanders (1031), Jacques Piccard (1922), Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (1350), Hubert van Eyck (1366), Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240), and Auguste Beernaert (1829). After him are Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Anne of France (1461), Gertrude of Nivelles (626), Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522), Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601), and Marie José of Belgium (1906).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Belgium

Among soccer players born in Belgium, Jean-Marie Pfaff ranks 1. After him are Paul Van Himst (1943), Michel Preud'homme (1959), Eden Hazard (1991), Herbert Wimmer (1944), Jan Ceulemans (1957), Thibaut Courtois (1992), Romelu Lukaku (1993), Enzo Scifo (1966), Frans Janssens (1945), Odilon Polleunis (1943), and Marc Wilmots (1969).

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