SOCCER PLAYER

Mikheil Meskhi

1937 - 1991

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Mikheil Salvovich Meskhi (Georgian: მიხეილ მესხი; Russian: Михаил Шалвович Месхи; born 12 January 1937 in Tbilisi; died 22 April 1991 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for his dazzling wing play, he was a creative force on the left flank for the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikheil Meskhi has received more than 62,820 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Mikheil Meskhi is the 963rd most popular soccer player (down from 890th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Georgian Soccer Player.

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  • 60.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mikheil Meskhi ranks 963 out of 21,273. Before him are Juan Ramón Verón, Kikuzo Kisaka, Ronald de Boer, Fernando Muslera, César Sampaio, and Michihiro Ozawa. After him are Giovane Élber, Ion Andoni Goikoetxea, Géza Toldi, Bauer, Mario Evaristo, and Rafael Márquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Mikheil Meskhi ranks 180. Before him are Nur Hassan Hussein, Igor Volk, Gaston Roelants, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Lusine Zakaryan, and Geki. After him are Ron Clarke, Mitsuo Kamata, Ron Carter, John Hume, Birju Maharaj, and Ted Nelson. Among people deceased in 1991, Mikheil Meskhi ranks 95. Before him are Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, Richard Thorpe, Otl Aicher, Alex North, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. After him are Schubert Gambetta, Artur Lundkvist, Luigi Zampa, Yasushi Inoue, Étienne Decroux, and Franco Maria Malfatti.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Mikheil Meskhi ranks 98 out of 406. Before him are Pharasmanes II of Iberia (100), Kamo (1882), Eliso Virsaladze (1942), Lusine Zakaryan (1937), Alimardan Topchubashov (1862), and Mikhail Loris-Melikov (1824). After him are Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817), Nodar Dumbadze (1928), Vyacheslav Ivankov (1940), Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868), Pharasmanes I of Iberia (-50), and Kakha Kaladze (1978).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Georgia

Among soccer players born in Georgia, Mikheil Meskhi ranks 2. Before him are Murtaz Khurtsilava (1943). After him are David Kipiani (1951), Shota Arveladze (1973), Zaur Kaloev (1931), Givi Chokheli (1937), Ramaz Shengelia (1957), Boris Paichadze (1915), Kakhi Asatiani (1947), Tengiz Sulakvelidze (1956), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (2001), and Anzor Kavazashvili (1940).

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