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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 34,637 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Kick Smit is the 2,020th most popular soccer player (down from 1,853rd in 2019), the 626th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 558th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

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  • 35k

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  • 47.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kick Smit ranks 2,020 out of 16,880Before him are Arne Selmosson, Ricardo Ferretti, Juan Masnik, Bernd Schneider, Valery Gazzaev, and Édouard Mendy. After him are Pia Sundhage, Héctor Vilches, José Omar Pastoriza, Daishiro Yoshimura, Eberhard Vogel, and Mengálvio Pedro Figueiró.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Kick Smit ranks 221Before him are Max Gluckman, Clare Hollingworth, Mervyn Peake, Gyula Lázár, C. L. Moore, and Nikolai Kryuchkov. After him are Consalvo Sanesi, Leslie Graham, Paul Pietsch, Fauja Singh, Luise Rinser, and Marie Braun. Among people deceased in 1974, Kick Smit ranks 156Before him are Élie Lescot, Karl Sesta, Karl Hohmann, Elisabeth Abegg, Axel Cadier, and Francis Blanche. After him are Jack Benny, Guy Simonds, Zaharia Stancu, Ali Mansur, Else Alfelt, and Arnaud Denjoy.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Kick Smit ranks 626 out of 1,427Before him are Jan Jacob Rochussen (1797), Martin Jol (1956), Zara Whites (1968), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Tylman van Gameren (1632), and Dirk Hartog (1580). After him are Netti Witziers-Timmer (1923), Bas Jan Ader (1942), Ryan Babel (1986), Henk Groot (1938), Maarten Stekelenburg (1982), and Johannes de Jong (1885).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Kick Smit ranks 69Before him are Arnold Mühren (1951), Wim Kieft (1962), Jan Wouters (1960), Frenkie de Jong (1997), Kees Rijvers (1926), and Nigel de Jong (1984). After him are Ryan Babel (1986), Henk Groot (1938), Maarten Stekelenburg (1982), Boudewijn Zenden (1976), Wim Anderiesen (1903), and Jaap Eden (1873).