SOCCER PLAYER

Nils Arne Eggen

1941 - 2022

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Nils Arne Eggen (17 September 1941 – 19 January 2022) was a Norwegian footballer, manager and teacher from Orkdal. Eggen was closely tied to Rosenborg, the club he managed for 23 years between 1970 and 2010. He is Norway's most successful club manager throughout history, having won the Norwegian top division fifteen times and the Norwegian Football Cup six times as a manager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Arne Eggen has received more than 115,534 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Nils Arne Eggen is the 3,766th most popular soccer player (down from 722nd in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Norway (down from 128th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Norwegian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nils Arne Eggen ranks 3,766 out of 21,273. Before him are Presnel Kimpembe, Efraín Amézcua, Danny Blanchflower, Segundo Durandal, Jean Tamini, and Blagoje Paunović. After him are Anthony Réveillère, Jorge Pardon, Jim Brown, Arthur Johnson, Friedel Rausch, and Álvaro Odriozola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Nils Arne Eggen ranks 484. Before him are Abdiqasim Salad, Kaija Mustonen, Ivica Brzić, Ritt Bjerregaard, Giancarlo Bercellino, and Sean Flynn. After him are Ulf Sterner, Paddy Ashdown, Ray Thomas, Viktor Putyatin, Colin Higgins, and Aaron Neville. Among people deceased in 2022, Nils Arne Eggen ranks 436. Before him are Jens Jørgen Hansen, Jacques Poos, René de Obaldia, Ernest Shonekan, Murray Halberg, and Tsuneko Sasamoto. After him are Larry Storch, Antonio Martino, Raymond Briggs, Yvan Colonna, Ri Yong-ho, and Eeles Landström.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Nils Arne Eggen ranks 380 out of 1,039. Before him are Knut Knudsen (1950), Harald Strøm (1897), Hanne Krogh (1956), Wollert Konow (1845), Bodil Katharine Biørn (1871), and Christian Lassen (1800). After him are Olve Eikemo (1973), Odd Iversen (1945), Johan Vaaler (1866), Aksel Hennie (1975), Johann Olav Koss (1968), and Georg Ossian Sars (1837).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Norway

Among soccer players born in Norway, Nils Arne Eggen ranks 19. Before him are Konrad Hirsch (1900), Rune Bratseth (1961), Nils Eriksen (1911), John Carew (1979), Rolf Holmberg (1914), and Harald Strøm (1897). After him are Odd Iversen (1945), Øivind Holmsen (1912), Frithjof Ulleberg (1911), Henry Johansen (1904), Kristian Henriksen (1911), and Magnar Isaksen (1910).

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