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SOCCER PLAYER

Jock Stein

1922 - 1985

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John "Jock" Stein (5 October 1922 – 10 September 1985) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jock Stein has received more than 1,142,359 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Jock Stein is the 1,230th most popular soccer player (down from 1,127th in 2019), the 2,485th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,276th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jock Stein ranks 1,230 out of 16,880Before him are Kazuhisa Kono, Walter Samuel, Bert Patenaude, Ousmane Dembélé, Pachín, and Sol Campbell. After him are Humberto Coelho, Wolfgang Weber, Steve Bruce, Pietro Anastasi, Ante Žanetić, and Gerald Vanenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jock Stein ranks 216Before him are Esther Brand, Joanne Dru, Martin Gray, Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Burt Kennedy, and Joseph Mermans. After him are Luiz Bonfá, Hilarion Capucci, Võ Văn Kiệt, Bob Martin, Farrokhroo Parsa, and Blaga Dimitrova. Among people deceased in 1985, Jock Stein ranks 113Before him are Julian Beck, Mary Kenneth Keller, Salvador Espriu, John G. Trump, Renato Castellani, and Oreco. After him are Vivien Thomas, Yusuf Lule, Brian Horrocks, Gale Sondergaard, Sergei Gerasimov, and Clarence Nash.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jock Stein ranks 2,485 out of 7,765Before him are John Walker (1781), G. I. Taylor (1886), Jamie Oliver (1975), Robert Chambers (1802), Simon Callow (1949), and Sol Campbell (1974). After him are Fatboy Slim (1963), Corin Redgrave (1939), Egon Pearson (1895), Banastre Tarleton (1754), Shirley Eaton (1937), and Donald Watson (1910).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jock Stein ranks 54Before him are Michael Carrick (1981), Rio Ferdinand (1978), Jamie Vardy (1987), Dennis Viollet (1933), John Terry (1980), and Sol Campbell (1974). After him are Steve Bruce (1960), Sam Allardyce (1954), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), David Seaman (1963), Tommy Lawrence (1940), and Nobby Stiles (1942).