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SOCCER PLAYER

Mel Charles

1935 - 2016

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Melvyn Charles (14 May 1935 – 24 September 2016) was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.After a short stint on the Leeds United ground staff, he turned professional with his local club, Swansea Town, in 1952. He spent seven years in the Second Division with the club, before he won a £42,750 move to First Division Arsenal in March 1959. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mel Charles has received more than 124,163 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mel Charles is the 5,985th most popular soccer player (down from 5,411th in 2019), the 5,591st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,024th in 2019) and the 321st most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 120k

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  • 37.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mel Charles ranks 5,985 out of 16,880Before him are Per Frimann, Jaroslav Drobný, Hiroshi Kato, Johnny Leoni, Michael Bradley, and Bruno Henrique Pinto. After him are Clemente Rodríguez, Steffen Freund, Çağlar Söyüncü, Steve von Bergen, Luis Fernando Herrera, and João Ricardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Mel Charles ranks 454Before him are Gabriel Elorde, Bill Brack, Bobby Bare, John Cordts, Kofi Awoonor, and Patricia Bredin. After him are Veli Lehtelä, Gail Fisher, Herb Kohl, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Don Howe, and Jane Dee Hull. Among people deceased in 2016, Mel Charles ranks 508Before him are Vanity, Nahed Hattar, Tera Wray, Andy Bathgate, P. A. Sangma, and Thiego. After him are Nikolay Abramov, František Jakubec, Daniel Prodan, A. B. Bardhan, John Johnson, and Richard Libertini.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mel Charles ranks 5,591 out of 7,765Before him are Patricia Bredin (1935), Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899), Dorothy Shirley (1939), Shashi Tharoor (1956), Stuart Christie (1946), and Tom Burke (1981). After him are Tommy Gemmell (1943), Colin McGinn (1950), Robert Lindsay (1949), Charlotte Despard (1844), Sophie Wilson (1957), and Nigel Havers (1951).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Mel Charles ranks 321Before him are Stuart Williams (1930), Duncan Ferguson (1971), Laurie Hughes (1924), Lee Dixon (1964), Doug Livingstone (1898), and Ben Foster (1983). After him are Tommy Gemmell (1943), Graham Potter (1975), Kevin Muscat (1973), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (1996), Ted Burgin (1927), and Bill Slater (1927).