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Osvaldo Ardiles

1952 - Today

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Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952), often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is an Argentine football manager, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as part of the Argentina national team. A competitive and skilled midfielder, Ardiles became a cult hero in England, along with Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa, as a player for Tottenham Hotspur. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Osvaldo Ardiles has received more than 1,167,444 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Osvaldo Ardiles is the 263rd most popular soccer player (down from 239th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 61st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Osvaldo Ardiles ranks 263 out of 21,273. Before him are Kylian Mbappé, Michel Preud'homme, Raymond Domenech, Patrick Vieira, Lorenzo Buffon, and Helmut Haller. After him are Gary Lineker, Quique Setién, František Plánička, Kazimierz Deyna, Abe Lenstra, and Fabien Barthez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Osvaldo Ardiles ranks 66. Before him are Maria Schneider, George Strait, Raymond Domenech, Bert van Marwijk, Imran Khan, and Reinhard Genzel. After him are Irina Bokova, Arkan, Paul Stanley, Alain Giresse, Gus Van Sant, and Abbas al-Musawi.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Osvaldo Ardiles ranks 64 out of 1,154. Before him are Ernesto Laclau (1935), Isabel Sarli (1929), Lalo Schifrin (1932), Alberto Ginastera (1916), Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), and Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914). After him are Bernardo Houssay (1887), Jorge Sampaoli (1960), César Milstein (1927), Tamara Bunke (1937), Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811), and Quino (1932).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Osvaldo Ardiles ranks 17. Before him are Luis Monti (1901), Javier Zanetti (1973), Carlos Bilardo (1938), Raimundo Orsi (1901), Ramón Díaz (1959), and Francisco Varallo (1910). After him are Gerardo Martino (1962), Claudio Caniggia (1967), Hernán Crespo (1975), Jorge Solari (1941), Carlos Bianchi (1949), and Leopoldo Luque (1949).

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