SOCCER PLAYER

John Hansen

1924 - 1990

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John Angelo Valdemar Østergaard Hansen, known simply as John Hansen, (24 June 1924 – 12 January 1990) was a Danish footballer who played as a forward. He played professionally for seven years in Italy: he scored 124 goals in 187 matches for Juventus FC, and won two Serie A championships with the club, finishing as Capocannoniere top-goal scorer in the 1951–52 Serie A season; he later also played for Italian club S.S. Lazio. He won the 1944 Danish championship with childhood club BK Frem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hansen has received more than 109,676 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Hansen is the 1,148th most popular soccer player (down from 1,098th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Denmark (up from 303rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Soccer Player.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, John Hansen ranks 1,148 out of 21,273. Before him are Mario Corso, Franky Vercauteren, Jean-Pierre Adams, Marcelino Martínez, Juan Mata, and Dennis Viollet. After him are Takeshi Natori, Bert Patenaude, Carlos Mozer, Márton Bukovi, Ulf Kirsten, and Bora Kostić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, John Hansen ranks 182. Before him are Ramón Castro Ruz, Élias Sarkis, Aleksandar Tišma, Yuri Orlov, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., and Werner Kohlmeyer. After him are Max Roach, Girija Prasad Koirala, Jean-François Revel, Gohar Gasparyan, Fud Leclerc, and Gevork Vartanian. Among people deceased in 1990, John Hansen ranks 117. Before him are Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, Naoto Tajima, Peter Wessel Zapffe, Andrei Kirilenko, Anne Revere, and Grethe Ingmann. After him are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Dodie Smith, Feng Youlan, Michael Powell, Zhang Qun, and Aldo Fabrizi.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, John Hansen ranks 291 out of 1,032. Before him are Peter Høeg (1957), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), Ulrich Thomsen (1963), Grethe Ingmann (1938), Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (1820), and Sigmundur Brestisson (961). After him are Ghita Nørby (1935), Martha of Denmark (1277), Emil Aarestrup (1800), Louise Rasmussen (1815), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), and Martin Knudsen (1871).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, John Hansen ranks 12. Before him are Søren Lerby (1958), Kenneth Zohore (1994), Harald Nielsen (1941), Sophus Nielsen (1888), Frank Arnesen (1956), and Kasper Schmeichel (1986). After him are Christian Eriksen (1992), Henning Jensen (1949), Johnny Hansen (1943), Jon Dahl Tomasson (1976), Kim Vilfort (1962), and Karl Aage Præst (1922).

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