SOCCER PLAYER

Josef Masopust

1931 - 2015

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Josef Masopust (9 February 1931 – 29 June 2015) was a Czech football player and coach. He played as midfielder and was a key player for Czechoslovakia, helping them reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josef Masopust has received more than 425,187 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Josef Masopust is the 45th most popular soccer player (down from 38th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 48th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Czech Soccer Player.

Josef Masopust is most famous for being the captain of the Czechoslovakian National Team that won the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Josef Masopust ranks 45 out of 21,273. Before him are Paolo Maldini, Sándor Kocsis, Antonín Panenka, Jürgen Klinsmann, Gunnar Nordahl, and Djalma Santos. After him are Omar Sívori, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Romário, Paolo Rossi, Stanley Matthews, and László Kubala.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Josef Masopust ranks 22. Before him are Anita Ekberg, Monica Vitti, Alice Munro, Roger Penrose, Annie Girardot, and Thomas Bernhard. After him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Desmond Tutu, Rupert Murdoch, Guy Debord, Leonard Nimoy, and Ian Holm. Among people deceased in 2015, Josef Masopust ranks 17. Before him are Tomas Tranströmer, B.B. King, Helmut Schmidt, Anita Ekberg, Süleyman Demirel, and Henning Mankell. After him are Laura Antonelli, Val Logsdon Fitch, Kim Young-sam, Richard von Weizsäcker, Ulrich Beck, and Leonard Nimoy.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Masopust ranks 50 out of 1,200. Before him are Adolf Loos (1870), Madeleine Albright (1937), Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Antonín Panenka (1948), and Gerty Cori (1896). After him are Adalbert of Prague (955), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Karel Gott (1939), Emil Hácha (1872), Milena Jesenská (1896), and Bohumil Hrabal (1914).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Josef Masopust ranks 2. Before him are Antonín Panenka (1948). After him are Matthias Sindelar (1903), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), Hugo Meisl (1881), Petr Čech (1982), Ivo Viktor (1942), Antonín Puč (1907), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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