SOCCER PLAYER

John Toshack

1949 - Today

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John Benjamin Toshack (born 22 March 1949) is a Welsh former professional football player and manager. He began his playing career as a teenager with his hometown club Cardiff City, becoming the youngest player to make an appearance for the side when he made his debut in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Toshack has received more than 1,027,349 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). John Toshack is the 454th most popular soccer player (down from 447th in 2019), the 1,210th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,362nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Toshacks by language

Over the past year John Toshack has had the most page views in the with 114,308 views, followed by Spanish (22,359), and Turkish (20,090). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (82.46%), Southern Azerbaijani (77.50%), and Turkish (69.31%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, John Toshack ranks 454 out of 21,273. Before him are Thibaut Courtois, Ally McCoist, Miloš Milutinović, Hans-Peter Briegel, Willem van Hanegem, and Roberto Dinamite. After him are Gianluca Zambrotta, Yukio Tsuda, Luis del Sol, Walter Mazzarri, Aldair, and Sigfried Held.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, John Toshack ranks 117. Before him are Brad Davis, Brigitte Bierlein, Kgalema Motlanthe, Sergei Bagapsh, Walid Jumblatt, and Armand Assante. After him are Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Alan Menken, Bengt Holmström, Manuel Marín, Michael W. Young, and Klaus Fischer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Toshack ranks 1,210 out of 8,785. Before him are James Mirrlees (1936), Spencer Perceval (1762), Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803), R. D. Laing (1927), Ray Stevenson (1964), and Sister Nivedita (1867). After him are Smithson Tennant (1761), Robert Shaw (1927), Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Alistair MacLean (1922), and Ruth Rendell (1930).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, John Toshack ranks 22. Before him are Ryan Giggs (1973), Ian Rush (1961), Bob Paisley (1919), Steven Gerrard (1980), John Charles (1931), and Ally McCoist (1962). After him are Frank Lampard (1978), Alan Shearer (1970), Gareth Bale (1989), Jack Charlton (1935), Paul Scholes (1974), and Geoff Hurst (1941).

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