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Johnny Giles

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Michael John Giles (born 6 November 1940) is an Irish former association football player and manager best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles served as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The FAI voted Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004. After winning an FA Cup winner's medal under Matt Busby at Manchester United, Giles moved to Leeds in 1963 where he played in midfield alongside captain Billy Bremner. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johnny Giles has received more than 877,923 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Johnny Giles is the 5,515th most popular soccer player (down from 4,746th in 2019), the 327th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 320th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Irish Soccer Player.

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  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Johnny Giles ranks 5,515 out of 21,273. Before him are Unai Simón, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Kyoko Kuroda, Hiroshi Sowa, Andreas Ivanschitz, and Caçapa. After him are Eren Derdiyok, Stefan Majewski, Manuel Sarabia, Stephen Tataw, Hermann Nuber, and Fan Zhiyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Johnny Giles ranks 544. Before him are Lyudmila Shishova, Jürgen Heinsch, Ugo Colombo, Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Brian Bennett, and Bjarne Andersson. After him are Stanislav Stepashkin, Elwyn Berlekamp, Graham McRae, Yelena Petushkova, Rinnat Safin, and Ernesto Cisneros.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Johnny Giles ranks 327 out of 549. Before him are Robert Emmet (1778), Duncan Hamilton (1920), Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110), Maria Doyle Kennedy (1964), Nahum Tate (1652), and Paul Harrington (1960). After him are Edward Barrett (1877), Jack Gleeson (1992), Siobhan Fahey (1958), William Hobson (1792), Shane Filan (1979), and Damien Duff (1979).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ireland

Among soccer players born in Ireland, Johnny Giles ranks 14. Before him are John O'Shea (1981), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), Tony Dunne (1941), Denis Irwin (1965), John McKenna (1855), and Frank O'Farrell (1927). After him are Damien Duff (1979), Johnny Carey (1919), Shay Given (1976), Frank Stapleton (1956), Steve Heighway (1947), and Packie Bonner (1960).

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