SOCCER PLAYER

Nereo Rocco

1912 - 1979

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Nereo Rocco (Italian pronunciation: [neˈrɛːo ˈrɔkko]; 20 May 1912 – 20 February 1979) was an Italian football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, he is famous for having been one of the most successful head coaches in Italy, winning several domestic and international titles during his tenure with A.C. Milan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nereo Rocco has received more than 223,283 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Nereo Rocco is the 442nd most popular soccer player (up from 454th in 2019), the 1,661st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,796th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Nereo Roccos by language

Over the past year Nereo Rocco has had the most page views in the with 88,811 views, followed by English (30,070), and Spanish (7,636). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (133.48%), Chinese (43.74%), and Egyptian Arabic (37.56%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nereo Rocco ranks 442 out of 21,273. Before him are Roque Máspoli, Herbert Wimmer, Milan Galić, Ahmed Faras, Felice Borel, and Daniele Massaro. After him are Jan Ceulemans, Adolf Scherer, Dejan Savićević, Noritaka Hidaka, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, and Thibaut Courtois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Nereo Rocco ranks 88. Before him are Hugh Griffith, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, José Ferrer, Michel Debré, Axel Springer, and Marina Raskova. After him are Lady Bird Johnson, Duško Popov, Feroze Gandhi, Arne Næss, Princess Deokhye, and Jiří Trnka. Among people deceased in 1979, Nereo Rocco ranks 57. Before him are Louis Chiron, Heinz Reinefarth, Alfredo Ottaviani, Nicos Poulantzas, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Charles W. Morris. After him are Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Richard Rodgers, Elizabeth Bishop, Konstantin Simonov, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Yukio Tsuda.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Nereo Rocco ranks 1,661 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianfranco Ferré (1944), Daniele Massaro (1961), Agostino Casaroli (1914), Pompeia (-90), Alessandro Achillini (1463), and Antipope Christopher (900). After him are Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652), Antipope Constantine II (710), Giovanni Battista Moroni (1525), Stefano Landi (1587), Maria, Queen of Sicily (1363), and Valentina Cortese (1923).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Nereo Rocco ranks 41. Before him are Simone Inzaghi (1976), Mario Balotelli (1990), Giuseppe Bergomi (1963), Gianfranco Zola (1966), Thiago Alcântara (1991), and Daniele Massaro (1961). After him are Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), Walter Mazzarri (1961), Vincenzo Montella (1974), Tarcisio Burgnich (1939), Pietro Rava (1916), and Leonardo Bonucci (1987).

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