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Péter Palotás

1929 - 1967

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Péter Palotás (27 June 1929 – 17 May 1967), born as Péter Poteleczky, was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward for MTK Budapest FC and Hungary. During the 1950s he was a fringe member of the team known as the Mighty Magyars and played alongside the likes of Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, Nándor Hidegkuti and József Bozsik. Palotás was an early pioneer of the deep-lying centre-forward role and in 1955 he scored the first ever hat-trick in a European Cup game. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Péter Palotás has received more than 37,461 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Péter Palotás is the 907th most popular soccer player (up from 935th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 269th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Péter Palotás ranks 907 out of 16,880Before him are Sadio Mané, José Luis Brown, Anatoly Tarasov, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Schubert Gambetta, and Dudu Georgescu. After him are Kevin-Prince Boateng, Kalle Svensson, Philippe Coutinho, Willy van der Kuijlen, Txiki Begiristain, and Nuno Espírito Santo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Péter Palotás ranks 202Before him are Nigel Hawthorne, Andrew Bertie, Julinho, Ronnie Biggs, Antonietta Stella, and Ronald Golias. After him are François Cheng, Mariama Bâ, Roger Bannister, Gérard de Villiers, Liz Sheridan, and Leila Abashidze. Among people deceased in 1967, Péter Palotás ranks 119Before him are Josef Frank, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Ferenc Münnich, Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Victor de Sabata, and Pavlo Tychyna. After him are Ernst Wollweber, Alice B. Toklas, Evelyn Nesbit, José Martínez Ruiz, Paul Löbe, and Charles Bickford.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 287 out of 866Before him are Máté Zalka (1896), Ferenc Gyulay (1799), Sándor Puhl (1955), Rudolf Bauer (1879), David Schwarz (1850), and Philip de László (1869). After him are Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Isidor Gunsberg (1854), Géza Toldi (1909), Ferenc Nagy (1903), Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria (1867), and Ján Kadár (1918).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 26Before him are Jenő Buzánszky (1925), József Zakariás (1924), Ferenc Plattkó (1898), Alfréd Schaffer (1893), Imre Schlosser (1889), and Ferenc Szusza (1923). After him are Géza Toldi (1909), György Orth (1901), Márton Bukovi (1903), Pál Csernai (1932), Miklós Fehér (1979), and Antal Dunai (1943).