SOCCER PLAYER

Luis Galván

1948 - 2025

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Luis Adolfo Galván (24 February 1948 – 5 May 2025) was an Argentine footballer who played as a centre back. He played for Argentina when the team won the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Luis Galván is the 1,523rd most popular soccer player (up from 1,614th in 2019), the 261st most popular biography from Argentina (up from 283rd in 2019) and the 107th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Luis Galván ranks 1,523 out of 21,273. Before him are Hiroshi Ninomiya, Uwe Bein, Geoff Bent, Klaus Toppmöller, Antony, and Nikola Kotkov. After him are David Seaman, Park Ji-sung, Mykhaylo Fomenko, Stephan El Shaarawy, Jesús María Satrústegui, and Feliciano Rivilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Luis Galván ranks 298. Before him are Wolfgang Haas, Sergei Bodrov, Kyung Wha Chung, Susana Dosamantes, Argentina Menis, and Sitiveni Rabuka. After him are Mykhaylo Fomenko, Luis Caffarelli, Gioconda Belli, Erik Schinegger, Phil Hartman, and Berry Berenson. Among people deceased in 2025, Luis Galván ranks 57. Before him are Akinori Nakayama, Thanin Kraivichien, Mauricio Funes, Peter Lax, Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Friðrik Ólafsson. After him are Jayant Narlikar, Eva Klein, David Vunagi, Robert Hübner, Clive Revill, and Renato Corsetti.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Luis Galván ranks 261 out of 1,154. Before him are Leonardo Favio (1938), Gustavo Cerati (1959), Sandro de América (1945), Rogelio Domínguez (1931), Fernando Paternoster (1903), and Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1868). After him are José López Rega (1916), Juan Pablo Sorín (1976), Luis Caffarelli (1948), Roberto Aballay (1922), Víctor Manuel Fernández (1962), and Juan Evaristo (1902).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Luis Galván ranks 107. Before him are Rodolfo Orlandini (1905), Francisco Olazar (1885), Oscar Ruggeri (1962), Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1922), Rogelio Domínguez (1931), and Fernando Paternoster (1903). After him are Juan Pablo Sorín (1976), Roberto Aballay (1922), Juan Evaristo (1902), Jorge Olguín (1952), Manuel Seoane (1902), and Omar Larrosa (1947).

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