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SOCCER PLAYER

Neville Southall

1958 - Today

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Neville Southall (born 16 September 1958) is a Welsh former international footballer. He has been described as one of the best goalkeepers of his generation and won the FWA Footballer of the Year award in 1985. He joined Bury from Winsford United for a £6,000 fee in 1980, and turned professional in his early 20s after a number of years as a semi-professional and amateur player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Neville Southall has received more than 1,125,592 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Neville Southall is the 5,236th most popular soccer player (down from 5,123rd in 2019), the 5,277th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,919th in 2019) and the 264th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 1.1M

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  • 39.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Neville Southall ranks 5,236 out of 16,880. Before him are Georgi Dimitrov, Jean-François Domergue, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Cheick Tioté, Michael Preetz, and José Giménez. After him are Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Viktor Fischer, Gianluca Lapadula, Fikayo Tomori, Marten de Roon, and Tobias Linderoth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Neville Southall ranks 477. Before him are Joan Severance, Faiza Jama Mohamed, Xavier Becerra, Mick Harvey, Pedro Uralde, and Ellen Ochoa. After him are Maria das Neves, Jim Leighton, Thomas Dolby, Arsinée Khanjian, Margot Käßmann, and Christian Clemenson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Neville Southall ranks 5,277 out of 7,765. Before him are Sophie Monk (1979), Simon Curtis (1960), Bobby Smith (1933), Alesha Dixon (1978), Ashley Jensen (1969), and Herbert Baker (1862). After him are Emily Bergl (1975), Simon Woods (1980), Mike Coughlan (1959), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (1997), Peter Westbury (1938), and Arthur Scargill (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Neville Southall ranks 264. Before him are Tom Heaton (1986), Harvey Barnes (1997), Derek Kevan (1935), Alan Hansen (1955), Mark Hateley (1961), and Bobby Smith (1933). After him are Aaron Wan-Bissaka (1997), Jim Leighton (1958), Trevor Brooking (1948), Jonny Evans (1988), Alex McLeish (1959), and Gary McAllister (1964).

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