SOCCER PLAYER

José Santamaría

1929 - Today

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José Emilio Santamaría Iglesias (born 31 July 1929) is a retired football central defender and manager. He spent his 18-year career with Nacional and Real Madrid, winning 12 titles with the latter club including four European Cups. Born in Uruguay, Santamaría represented both the Uruguay and Spain national teams. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Santamaría has received more than 185,865 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). José Santamaría is the 304th most popular soccer player (down from 297th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 19th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

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  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, José Santamaría ranks 304 out of 21,273. Before him are Dragoslav Šekularac, Bo Larsson, Salvatore Schillaci, Brian Clough, Waichiro Omura, and Wesley Sneijder. After him are Julen Lopetegui, Valentino Mazzola, Giovanni Ferrari, Claudio Gentile, Pedro Rocha, and Sepp Piontek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, José Santamaría ranks 103. Before him are Michael Atiyah, Chespirito, David Kelly, Paul Lauterbur, Věra Chytilová, and Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. After him are Alasdair MacIntyre, Bob Denard, Georgi Markov, Vera Miles, André Previn, and Antonio Carbajal.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, José Santamaría ranks 18 out of 444. Before him are Héctor Castro (1904), Óscar Tabárez (1947), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), José Gervasio Artigas (1764), and Diego Forlán (1979). After him are Pedro Rocha (1942), Alberto Suppici (1898), Obdulio Varela (1917), Mario Benedetti (1920), Jules Laforgue (1860), and Edinson Cavani (1987).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, José Santamaría ranks 11. Before him are Héctor Scarone (1898), Luis Suárez (1987), Héctor Castro (1904), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), and Diego Forlán (1979). After him are Pedro Rocha (1942), Alberto Suppici (1898), Obdulio Varela (1917), Edinson Cavani (1987), Pedro Petrone (1905), and Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945).

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