SOCCER PLAYER

Kick Smit

1911 - 1974

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Johannes Chrishostomus "Kick" Smit (3 November 1911 – 1 July 1974) was a Dutch football player. He earned 29 caps and scored 26 goals for the Netherlands national football team, and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. He is the first Netherlands football player who scored a goal in a World Cup (27 May 1934 against Switzerland). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kick Smit has received more than 37,395 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Kick Smit is the 2,107th most popular soccer player (down from 2,020th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 624th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kick Smit ranks 2,107 out of 21,273. Before him are Luigi Simoni, Tengiz Sulakvelidze, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Antal Nagy, José Sasía, and Radivoje Ognjanović. After him are Vlastimil Bubník, Émile Veinante, Bernabé Ferreyra, Marco Antônio, Dado Pršo, and Pat Jennings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Kick Smit ranks 203. Before him are Bob Kiesel, Saalumarada Thimmakka, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Ronald Neame, Carl Keenan Seyfert, and Gustav Wetterström. After him are Lee Falk, Maclyn McCarty, Antonio Sastre, Mary Blair, Bel Kaufman, and Masayuki Mori. Among people deceased in 1974, Kick Smit ranks 151. Before him are Wolfgang Windgassen, Alexander P. de Seversky, Elisabeth Abegg, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, and Jack Benny. After him are Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Emil Väre, Clyde Cowan, Gheorghe Albu, Françoise Rosay, and Arnaud Denjoy.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Kick Smit ranks 643 out of 1,646. Before him are Bas van Fraassen (1941), Frenkie de Jong (1997), Dirk Brouwer (1902), Tylman van Gameren (1632), Jo Cals (1914), and Jan Gerritsz van Bronckhorst (1603). After him are Lenny Kuhr (1950), Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594), Heintje Simons (1955), George Clifford III (1685), Jan van Bijlert (1597), and Marsilius of Inghen (1335).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Kick Smit ranks 77. Before him are Coen Moulijn (1937), Ibrahim Afellay (1986), Henk Groot (1938), Adri van Tiggelen (1957), Daley Blind (1990), and Frenkie de Jong (1997). After him are Hans Ooft (1947), Kees van Ierssel (1945), Maarten Stekelenburg (1982), Harry Vos (1946), Wim Jonk (1966), and Simon Tahamata (1956).

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