SOCCER PLAYER

Nasser Hejazi

1949 - 2011

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Nasser Hejazi (Persian: ناصر حجازی, nāser hejāzi; 14 December 1949 – 23 May 2011), nicknamed "the legendary Iranian goalkeeper", was an Iranian football player and coach who most notably played for Esteghlal (Taj). Considered as the best goalkeeper in the history of Iranian football and Asia, he was capped 62 times for the Iran national football team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nasser Hejazi has received more than 144,391 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Nasser Hejazi is the 3,223rd most popular soccer player (down from 2,957th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 348th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nasser Hejazi ranks 3,223 out of 21,273. Before him are Daniel Bravo, Luiz Luz, Hector Goetinck, Rino Ferrario, Vikash Dhorasoo, and Anatoly Krutikov. After him are Heinz Schneiter, Megan Rapinoe, José Antonio Zaldúa, Willy Busch, Juan Arremón, and Salah Assad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Nasser Hejazi ranks 483. Before him are Carlo Petrini, Burghart Klaußner, Takeshi Shudo, Patrick Nève, Zlatko Mateša, and Farida Jalal. After him are Noli de Castro, Loretta Devine, Debra Monk, Mitsunori Fujiguchi, Fred Frith, and Wendy O. Williams. Among people deceased in 2011, Nasser Hejazi ranks 332. Before him are Walter Breuning, Sergo Kotrikadze, Luiz Bueno, Roger Gautier, Leonid Abalkin, and Agustín García-Gasco Vicente. After him are Thorbjørn Svenssen, Per Berlin, Joe Morello, Zoltán Berczik, Joe Arroyo, and Edmundo Ros.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Nasser Hejazi ranks 393 out of 631. Before him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Mehdi Taremi (1992), Ali Parvin (1946), Navid Negahban (1968), and Ali Hatami (1944). After him are Dariush Shayegan (1935), Ahmad Vahidi (1958), Zahra Rahnavard (1945), Shahram Nazeri (1950), Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939), and Mohammad Mirmohammadi (1948).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iran

Among soccer players born in Iran, Nasser Hejazi ranks 6. Before him are Ali Daei (1969), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Mehdi Taremi (1992), and Ali Parvin (1946). After him are Amir Ghalenoei (1963), Ali Karimi (1978), Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977), Karim Bagheri (1974), Yahya Golmohammadi (1971), and Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (1950).

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