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Joe Gaetjens

1924 - 1964

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Joseph Edouard Gaetjens ( GAY-jenz; March 19, 1924 – July 10, 1964 [presumed]) was a soccer player who played as a center forward. Born in Haiti, he represented its national team before and after playing for the United States team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, in which he scored the winning goal in the 1–0 upset of England. Gaetjens won his home national championship in 1942 and 1944 with top-level Etoile Haïtienne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joe Gaetjens has received more than 232,225 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Joe Gaetjens is the 3,199th most popular soccer player (down from 2,722nd in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Haiti (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Haitian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Joe Gaetjens ranks 3,199 out of 16,880. Before him are Marinho Peres, Silviu Bindea, Makoto Hasebe, Ljubomir Lovrić, José Antonio Zaldúa, and Karol Jokl. After him are Paolo Pulici, Mike Summerbee, Alain Geiger, Hans Gillhaus, Juan Carlos Villamayor, and Cristiano Lucarelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Joe Gaetjens ranks 359. Before him are Robert Körner, Stanley Jaki, F. Sionil José, Otis Spann, Antoine Cuissard, and Hans Kalt. After him are Omero Tognon, Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, Anatoli Bashashkin, Joseph Nérette, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, and Silvano Piovanelli. Among people deceased in 1964, Joe Gaetjens ranks 164. Before him are Johnny Burnette, Lars Christensen, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Nella Larsen, Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, and Per Nilsson. After him are Eugène Olivier, Adolf Šimperský, Steponas Kairys, Edward Van Sloan, Stuart Davis, and Guru Dutt.

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In Haiti

Among people born in Haiti, Joe Gaetjens ranks 45 out of 80. Before him are Wyclef Jean (1969), Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (1745), Prosper Avril (1937), Marc Bazin (1932), Michèle Pierre-Louis (1947), and Gérard Latortue (1934). After him are Jocelerme Privert (1953), Martial Célestin (1913), Joseph Nérette (1924), Louis Eugène Roy (1861), Raoul Cédras (1949), and Claude Barthélemy (1945).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Haiti

Among soccer players born in Haiti, Joe Gaetjens ranks 3. Before him are Emmanuel Sanon (1951) and Ernst Jean-Joseph (1948). After him are Claude Barthélemy (1945), Guy François (1947), Arsène Auguste (1951), Pierre Bayonne (1949), Jean-Jacques Pierre (1981), Wilde-Donald Guerrier (1989), Réginal Goreux (1987), Jean Sony Alcénat (1986), and Jean Alexandre (1986).

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