SOCCER PLAYER

Mário Zagallo

1931 - 2024

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Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaɾju zaˈɡalu]; 9 August 1931 – 5 January 2024) was a Brazilian professional football player, coordinator and manager, who played as a forward. Zagallo holds the record for World Cup titles in general with four titles in total. He also holds the record for World Cup finals with six participations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mário Zagallo has received more than 1,238,494 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Mário Zagallo is the 12th most popular soccer player (up from 27th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 12th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Mario Zagallo is most famous for being the coach of Brazil's 1970 World Cup winning team.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mário Zagallos by language

Over the past year Mário Zagallo has had the most page views in the with 878,712 views, followed by English (326,193), and Spanish (167,509). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (5,040.00%), (4,700.00%), and Catalan (257.97%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mário Zagallo ranks 12 out of 21,273. Before him are Diego Maradona, Cristiano Ronaldo, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Garrincha, Gerd Müller, and Eusébio. After him are Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo, Zico, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Bobby Charlton, and Giuseppe Meazza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Mário Zagallo ranks 7. Before him are Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Rajneesh, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Toni Morrison, and Raúl Castro. After him are James Dean, Tomas Tranströmer, Irvin D. Yalom, Isabel Martínez de Perón, Raymond Kopa, and Robert Duvall. Among people deceased in 2024, Mário Zagallo ranks 2. Before him is Franz Beckenbauer. After him are Daniel Kahneman, Peter Higgs, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, O. J. Simpson, Arno Allan Penzias, Sebastián Piñera, Alexei Navalny, Luigi Riva, Akira Toriyama, and Johan Galtung.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Mário Zagallo ranks 5 out of 2,236. Before him are Pelé (1940), Garrincha (1933), Paulo Coelho (1947), and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945). After him are Ronaldo (1976), Oscar Niemeyer (1907), Zico (1953), Ayrton Senna (1960), Dilma Rousseff (1947), Jair Bolsonaro (1955), and Jairzinho (1944).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Mário Zagallo ranks 3. Before him are Pelé (1940), and Garrincha (1933). After him are Ronaldo (1976), Zico (1953), Jairzinho (1944), Rivellino (1946), Carlos Alberto Torres (1944), Sócrates (1954), Didi (1928), Vavá (1934), and Ronaldinho (1980).

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