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Josef Masopust

Czech footballer

1931 - 2015

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His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2024). Josef Masopust is the 61st most popular soccer player (down from 45th in 2024), the 60th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 50th 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.

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Josef Masopust ranks #61 of 24,321 Soccer Players worldwide, placing them among the top 1% of the profession.

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Josef Masopust's biography appears in 47 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 93% of all Soccer Players.

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Among Soccer Players

Among soccer players, Josef Masopust ranks 58 out of 24,321. Before him are Pak Sung-hyok, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Kim Myong-gil, Pak Chol-jin, Filippo Inzaghi, and Takashi Kasahara. After him are Vavá, Djalma Santos, Roger Milla, Mario Kempes, David Beckham, and Oliver Kahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Josef Masopust ranks 25. Before him are Anita Ekberg, Desmond Tutu, Thomas Bernhard, Monica Vitti, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, and Martinus J. G. Veltman. After him are Don King, Sofia Gubaidulina, Anatoly Dyatlov, Burton Richter, Annie Girardot, and Johannes Rau. Among people deceased in 2015, Josef Masopust ranks 26. Before him are Henning Mankell, Irwin Rose, Yves Chauvin, Richard von Weizsäcker, Laura Antonelli, and Dusty Rhodes. After him are Leonard Nimoy, Kenan Evren, Val Logsdon Fitch, Ulrich Beck, Khaled al-Asaad, and Yoichiro Nambu.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Josef Masopust ranks 60 out of 1,455. Before him are Emil Hácha (1872), Adalbert of Prague (955), Antonín Panenka (1948), George of Poděbrady (1420), Milena Jesenská (1896), and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851). After him are Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890), and Karl Renner (1870).

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Among Soccer Players In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Josef Masopust ranks 2. Before him is Antonín Panenka (1948). After him are Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Matthias Sindelar (1903), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), Ivo Viktor (1942), Petr Čech (1982), Tomáš Rosický (1980), Antonín Puč (1907), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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