SOCCER PLAYER

Matthias Sindelar

1903 - 1939

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Matthias Sindelar (German: [maˈtiːas ˈʃɪndəlaːɐ̯], Czech: Matěj Šindelář; 10 February 1903 – 23 January 1939) was an Austrian professional footballer. Regarded as one of the greatest Austrian players of all time, Sindelar notably played for Austria Vienna and the national side. He played as a centre-forward for the celebrated Austrian national side of the early 1930s that became known as the Wunderteam, which he captained at the 1934 World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matthias Sindelar has received more than 289,059 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Matthias Sindelar is the 105th most popular soccer player (down from 69th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 71st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Soccer Player.

Matthias Sindelar was a Czechoslovakian footballer who was the captain of the Czechoslovakia national team. He is most famous for scoring the first ever goal in the World Cup, which was in 1930.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Matthias Sindelar ranks 105 out of 21,273. Before him are José Altafini, Bert Trautmann, Kaká, Eric Cantona, Nándor Hidegkuti, and Andriy Shevchenko. After him are Cafu, Zito, Vahid Halilhodžić, René Higuita, Kunishige Kamamoto, and Leônidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Matthias Sindelar ranks 36. Before him are Karl Hanke, Raymond Queneau, George Beadle, John Dillinger, Irène Némirovsky, and Tunku Abdul Rahman. After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Bruno Bettelheim, Julius Fučík, Lars Onsager, Georg Elser, and Alec Douglas-Home. Among people deceased in 1939, Matthias Sindelar ranks 14. Before him are W. B. Yeats, James Naismith, Werner von Fritsch, Philipp Scheidemann, Anton Makarenko, and Karl Radek. After him are Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Sapir, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Antonio Machado, Louis Wain, and Ferdinand von Lindemann.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Matthias Sindelar ranks 75 out of 1,200. Before him are Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Max Wertheimer (1880), Karl Hermann Frank (1898), and Karel Schwarzenberg (1937). After him are František Kupka (1871), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679), Josef Hoffmann (1870), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (1205), and Věra Čáslavská (1942).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Matthias Sindelar ranks 3. Before him are Antonín Panenka (1948), and Josef Masopust (1931). After him are Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), Hugo Meisl (1881), Petr Čech (1982), Ivo Viktor (1942), Antonín Puč (1907), and Sigfried Held (1942).

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