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Moacir Barbosa Nascimento

1921 - 2000

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Moacir Barbosa do Nascimento (27 March 1921 – 7 April 2000) was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. His career spanned 22 years. He was regarded as one of the world's best goalkeepers in the 1940s and 1950s, and was known for not wearing gloves, as would be typical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moacir Barbosa Nascimento has received more than 103,719 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Moacir Barbosa Nascimento is the 369th most popular soccer player (down from 220th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 79th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Moacir Barbosa Nascimento is most famous for being a Brazilian footballer.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento ranks 369 out of 21,273Before him are Yasuo Suzuki, Kim Yong-sik, Tamotsu Asakura, Hisataka Okamoto, Simone Inzaghi, and Ferenc Bene. After him are Mario Balotelli, Bixente Lizarazu, Jorge Solari, Ko Takamoro, Emmanuel Adebayor, and Henrik Larsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento ranks 87Before him are Peter Benenson, Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Angelica Rozeanu, Ágnes Keleti, Leonardo Sciascia, and Gene Roddenberry. After him are Seretse Khama, Dirk Bogarde, Iris Apfel, Donna Reed, Shin Kyuk-ho, and Stanley Ho. Among people deceased in 2000, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento ranks 52Before him are Michael Smith, Saburō Sakai, Petar Mladenov, Jan Karski, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and Yasuo Suzuki. After him are Lazar Koliševski, Phạm Văn Đồng, John Harsanyi, Lolo Ferrari, Friedrich Gulda, and Ion Gheorghe Maurer.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento ranks 105 out of 2,236Before him are Telê Santana (1931), Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (1943), Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905), Leonardo Araújo (1969), Elis Regina (1945), and João Figueiredo (1918). After him are Chico Xavier (1910), Juninho Pernambucano (1975), Émerson Leão (1949), Bernardino Machado (1851), Vanderlei Luxemburgo (1952), and Fernando Collor de Mello (1949).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento ranks 48Before him are Pepe (1983), Cláudio Taffarel (1966), Toninho Cerezo (1955), Mauro Ramos (1930), Telê Santana (1931), and Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (1943). After him are Juninho Pernambucano (1975), Émerson Leão (1949), Robinho (1984), Roberto Dinamite (1954), Aldair (1965), and Oscar (1954).