SOCCER PLAYER

Paulino Alcántara

1896 - 1964

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Paulino Alcántara Riestrá (7 October 1896 – 13 February 1964) was a professional football player and manager who played as a forward. Born in the Philippines, he spent most of his playing career at Barcelona, and also represented Catalonia, the Philippines and Spain internationally.Alcántara made his debut for Barcelona at the age of 15, and remains the youngest player to play or score for the club. He scored 395 goals in 399 official and friendly matches, a club record that stood for 87 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paulino Alcántara has received more than 584,570 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Paulino Alcántara is the 245th most popular soccer player (down from 191st in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Philippines (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Filipino Soccer Player.

Paulino Alcántara is most famous for being the first Mexican to play in Major League Baseball.

Memorability Metrics

  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Paulino Alcántaras by language

Over the past year Paulino Alcántara has had the most page views in the with 108,055 views, followed by Japanese (18,364), and Spanish (13,304). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Indonesian (287.10%), Simple English (140.24%), and Korean (137.14%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Paulino Alcántara ranks 245 out of 21,273. Before him are Yochanan Vollach, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Paul Van Himst, Willy van de Kerkhof, Arjen Robben, and Ken Noritake. After him are Francisco Varallo, Mordechai Spiegler, Peter Bosz, David Villa, Fernando Hierro, and Yoshio Okada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Paulino Alcántara ranks 52. Before him are Gottlob Berger, Robert S. Mulliken, Mamie Eisenhower, Nikolay Semyonov, André Masson, and Wallace Carothers. After him are Friedrich Hund, Léon Theremin, Kenji Miyazawa, Soghomon Tehlirian, David Wechsler, and Elsa Triolet. Among people deceased in 1964, Paulino Alcántara ranks 30. Before him are Alexander Archipenko, Emilio Aguinaldo, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Ernst Kretschmer, Maurice Thorez, and Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois. After him are Douglas McGregor, Heinrich Neuhaus, Andriy Melnyk, Sam Cooke, Peter Lorre, and Princess Auguste of Bavaria.

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In Philippines

Among people born in Philippines, Paulino Alcántara ranks 11 out of 155. Before him are José Rizal (1861), Lapu-Lapu (1491), Diosdado Macapagal (1910), Emilio Aguinaldo (1869), Imelda Marcos (1929), and Benigno Aquino Jr. (1932). After him are Andrés Bonifacio (1863), Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947), Isabel Preysler (1951), Manuel L. Quezon (1878), Marcelo H. del Pilar (1850), and Elpidio Quirino (1890).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Philippines

Among soccer players born in Philippines, Paulino Alcántara ranks 1. After him are Daisuke Sato (1994).

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