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Miguel Muñoz

1922 - 1990

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Miguel Muñoz Mozún (19 January 1922 – 16 July 1990) was a Spanish football player and manager. A midfielder, he spent the majority of his career at Real Madrid before going on to coach the club, where he is widely considered one of the most successful and greatest managers in football history, leading the team to two European Cup victories and nine La Liga titles (winning seven major titles in both major competitions combined as a player). Muñoz later had a six-year coaching spell with the Spain national team, and led them to the final of Euro 1984. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Muñoz has received more than 373,437 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Miguel Muñoz is the 74th most popular soccer player (up from 87th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Spain (up from 219th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Soccer Player.

Miguel Muñoz is most famous for his work in the field of orthopedics. He was one of the first doctors to use plaster casts to treat broken bones.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Miguel Muñoz ranks 74 out of 21,273. Before him are George Weah, Franco Baresi, Gianni Rivera, Silvio Piola, Francesco Totti, and Gianluigi Buffon. After him are Gordon Banks, Rivaldo, Neymar, Giacinto Facchetti, Paul Breitner, and Béla Guttmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Miguel Muñoz ranks 28. Before him are Jack Kerouac, Imre Lakatos, Philip Larkin, Vittorio Gassman, Alain Resnais, and Christiaan Barnard. After him are Stanley Cohen, Renata Tebaldi, Yang Chen-Ning, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Telly Savalas, and Otto Carius. Among people deceased in 1990, Miguel Muñoz ranks 18. Before him are Sarah Vaughan, Norbert Elias, Lê Đức Thọ, Sergei Parajanov, Pavel Cherenkov, and Yun Posun. After him are John Bowlby, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Lawrence Durrell, Bruno Bettelheim, Ilya Frank, and Robert Hofstadter.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Miguel Muñoz ranks 157 out of 3,355. Before him are Diego de Almagro (1475), Berengaria of Navarre (1165), José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903), Carlos Saura (1932), Ferdinand I of León (1016), and Francisco de Quevedo (1584). After him are Alfonso VIII of Castile (1155), Joan Enric Vives Sicília (1949), John II of Castile (1405), Alfonso XI of Castile (1311), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548), and Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Spain

Among soccer players born in Spain, Miguel Muñoz ranks 5. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895), Ricardo Zamora (1901), Francisco Gento (1933), and Luis Suárez (1935). After him are Luis Enrique (1970), Sergio Ramos (1986), Xavi (1980), Xabi Alonso (1981), Andrés Iniesta (1984), Iker Casillas (1981), and Carles Puyol (1978).

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