SOCCER PLAYER

Mágico González

1958 - Today

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Jorge Alberto González Barillas (born 13 March 1958), popularly known as El Mágico ("The Magical One" or "The Wizard"), is a Salvadoran former professional footballer who played mainly as a forward. At the club level, he played mainly for FAS and Spain's Cádiz in a 24-year senior career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mágico González has received more than 703,101 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Mágico González is the 1,253rd most popular soccer player (up from 1,819th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from El Salvador (up from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Salvadoran Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mágico González ranks 1,253 out of 21,273Before him are Luis Rubiales, Miguel Ángel Nadal, Angelo Sormani, Ladislav Novák, Mitsuo Watanabe, and John van 't Schip. After him are Emmanuel Sanon, Kevin De Bruyne, Gerald Vanenburg, Jorginho, José Luis Mendilibar, and Keisuke Honda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Mágico González ranks 117Before him are Dragan Đokanović, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Eric Singer, Yoshito Usui, Michael Winslow, and Zdravko Krivokapić. After him are Charlie Kaufman, Limahl, Serena Grandi, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, Nancy Spungen, and Belinda Carlisle.

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In El Salvador

Among people born in El Salvador, Mágico González ranks 8 out of 39Before him are Salvador Sánchez Cerén (1944), Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (1901), Nayib Bukele (1981), Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1882), Farabundo Martí (1893), and Unica Zürn (1916). After him are José Napoleón Duarte (1925), Mauricio Funes (1959), Alfredo Cristiani (1947), Fidel Sánchez Hernández (1917), Jaime Rodríguez (1959), and Gregorio Rosa Chávez (1942).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In El Salvador

Among soccer players born in El Salvador, Mágico González ranks 1After him are Jaime Rodríguez (1959), Raúl Magaña (1940), Pipo Rodríguez (1945), Hugo Pérez (1963), Luis Ramírez Zapata (1954), Ever Hernández (1958), José María Rivas (1958), Raúl Díaz Arce (1970), Alfredo Pacheco (1982), Rodolfo Zelaya (1988), and Jaime Alas (1989).