SOCCER PLAYER

Rajko Mitić

1922 - 2008

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Rajko Mitić (Serbian Cyrillic: Рајко Митић, pronounced [rǎːjko mǐːtitɕ]; 19 November 1922 – 29 March 2008) was a Serbian footballer, coach, executive and journalist. A former forward, Mitić is considered one of the most important players in the history of Red Star Belgrade as he is the first out of only five players to have been awarded the Zvezdina zvezda. In December 2014, Red Star Stadium, the principal stadium in Serbia, was officially renamed after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rajko Mitić has received more than 219,162 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Rajko Mitić is the 273rd most popular soccer player (up from 420th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 92nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Serbian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rajko Mitić ranks 273 out of 21,273. Before him are Kazimierz Deyna, Abe Lenstra, Fabien Barthez, Ruud Geels, Thomas Müller, and Takashi Kano. After him are Lee Yoo-hyung, Antoni Ramallets, Duncan Edwards, Raúl, Gusztáv Sebes, and Alessandro Nesta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Rajko Mitić ranks 68. Before him are Ken Noritake, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Lucian Freud, Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, and Enrico Berlinguer. After him are Toots Thielemans, Carlo M. Cipolla, Charles Mingus, Arthur Penn, Denholm Elliott, and Karl-Otto Apel. Among people deceased in 2008, Rajko Mitić ranks 55. Before him are Dino Risi, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Dorothy Vaughan, Horst Tappert, Tassos Papadopoulos, and Joshua Lederberg. After him are Sufi Abu Taleb, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Henri Cartan, Jerry Reed, Mark Felt, and Youssef Chahine.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Rajko Mitić ranks 70 out of 661. Before him are Radomir Antić (1948), Moša Pijade (1890), Milan Milutinović (1942), Draga Mašin (1864), Dušan Simović (1882), and Radoje Domanović (1873). After him are Gojko Mitić (1940), Lazar Branković (1421), Stepa Stepanović (1856), Živojin Mišić (1855), Petar Stambolić (1912), and Paul Abraham (1892).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Serbia

Among soccer players born in Serbia, Rajko Mitić ranks 4. Before him are Dragan Džajić (1946), Bora Milutinović (1944), and Radomir Antić (1948). After him are Vujadin Boškov (1931), Miloš Milutinović (1933), Velibor Vasović (1939), Nemanja Vidić (1981), Dejan Stanković (1978), Todor Veselinović (1930), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), and Vladica Popović (1935).

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