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SOCCER PLAYER

José Torres

1938 - 2010

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José Augusto Costa Sénica Torres (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈtoʁɨʃ]; 8 September 1938 – 3 September 2010), nicknamed "O Bom Gigante" ("The Kind Giant"), was a Portuguese football centre-forward and coach. Most of his 21-year senior career was spent at Benfica, with great individual and team success (13 major titles). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Torres has received more than 396,749 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). José Torres is the 1,243rd most popular soccer player (up from 1,336th in 2019), the 249th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 231st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, José Torres ranks 1,243 out of 16,880. Before him are Moderato Wisintainer, Teruki Miyamoto, Julio Libonatti, Emmanuel Sanon, Migueli, and Sylvain Wiltord. After him are Carlos Riolfo, Akira Matsunaga, Pedro Arico Suárez, Juan Bautista Agüero, Manuel Seoane, and Zdeněk Nehoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, José Torres ranks 264. Before him are Carlo Caffarra, Michel Duchaussoy, Corine Rottschäfer, Pachín, Liya Akhedzhakova, and Karl Schranz. After him are Anatoly Marchenko, Nayef Hawatmeh, Willi Schulz, Anar Rzayev, Anna Wierzbicka, and Fred Anton Maier. Among people deceased in 2010, José Torres ranks 175. Before him are Huang Hua, Petra Schürmann, Roberto Rosato, Paul Augustin Mayer, Bernard Giraudeau, and Corin Redgrave. After him are Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Gary Coleman, Carl Adam Petri, Kevin McCarthy, and Oswaldo López Arellano.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, José Torres ranks 249 out of 555. Before him are Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860), Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887), João César Monteiro (1939), Fernando Couto (1969), Humberto Coelho (1950), and Gonçalo Velho Cabral (1400). After him are Vasco de Almeida e Costa (1932), John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch (1431), Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (1869), Pedro Teixeira (1585), José Costa (1953), and Christopher Hampton (1946).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Portugal

Among soccer players born in Portugal, José Torres ranks 22. Before him are Nuno Gomes (1976), Fernando Gomes (1956), Paulo Bento (1969), Fábio Coentrão (1988), Fernando Couto (1969), and Humberto Coelho (1950). After him are José Costa (1953), Manuel Bento (1948), Bruno Alves (1981), Maniche (1977), António Simões (1943), and Nené (1949).

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