SOCCER PLAYER

Petr Čech

1982 - Today

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Petr Čech (Czech pronunciation: [pɛtr̩ ˈtʃɛx] ; born 20 May 1982) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and current ice hockey player who plays as a goaltender for Oxford City Stars. He has been described as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and, by some, as the greatest goalkeeper, alongside Peter Schmeichel, in Premier League history. Čech began his senior career at Chmel Blšany in 1999, where he played sporadically for two seasons prior to relocating to Sparta Prague in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petr Čech has received more than 6,665,703 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Petr Čech is the 349th most popular soccer player (up from 366th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Czechia (up from 193rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Petr Čech ranks 349 out of 21,273. Before him are Mauro Ramos, Kiyonosuke Marutani, Toni Kroos, Youri Djorkaeff, Sepp Herberger, and Telê Santana. After him are Artur Jorge, Helmut Schön, Hideo Sakai, Jürgen Grabowski, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, and Takashi Kasahara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Petr Čech ranks 7. Before him are Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Kaká, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Anne Hathaway, Lil Wayne, and Sultan Kösen. After him are Víctor Valdés, Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Kirsten Dunst, Yelena Isinbayeva, Eddie Redmayne, and Adriano.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Petr Čech ranks 171 out of 1,200. Before him are František Palacký (1798), Christoph Schönborn (1945), Georg Benda (1722), Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria (1860), Karel Zeman (1910), and G. W. Pabst (1885). After him are David Popper (1843), Ivo Viktor (1942), Bedřich Hrozný (1879), Ignaz Moscheles (1794), Archduke Eugen of Austria (1863), and Josef Koudelka (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Czechia

Among soccer players born in Czechia, Petr Čech ranks 9. Before him are Matthias Sindelar (1903), Pavel Nedvěd (1972), Oldřich Nejedlý (1909), František Plánička (1904), Jan Koller (1973), and Hugo Meisl (1881). After him are Ivo Viktor (1942), Antonín Puč (1907), Sigfried Held (1942), Zdeněk Zeman (1947), Viliam Schrojf (1931), and Milan Baroš (1981).

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