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Richard Møller Nielsen

1937 - 2014

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Richard Møller Nielsen (19 August 1937 – 13 February 2014) was a Danish football player and manager. He coached the Denmark national football team that won the UEFA Euro 1992 tournament. In 1995, he was awarded a gold version of the Medal of Merit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Møller Nielsen has received more than 196,678 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Møller Nielsen is the 358th most popular soccer player (down from 318th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 161st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Soccer Player.

Richard Møller Nielsen was a Danish football player and coach. He is most famous for leading the Denmark national football team to victory in the 1992 European Championship, and then to the final of the 1998 World Cup, where they lost to Brazil.

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  • 200k

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  • 59.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 358 out of 21,273. Before him are Hideo Sakai, Jürgen Grabowski, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, Takashi Kasahara, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, and Antonio Carbajal. After him are Ivo Viktor, Yasuo Takamori, Larbi Benbarek, Takashi Takabayashi, Yasuo Suzuki, and Kim Yong-sik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 84. Before him are Valentin Pavlov, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, Jerry Reed, Seymour Hersh, and Roberta Flack. After him are Manuel Pinto da Costa, Naji al-Ali, Yoshirō Mori, Maryse Condé, Cornelius A. Smith, and Rifaat al-Assad. Among people deceased in 2014, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 74. Before him are Hilderaldo Bellini, Billy Milligan, Kim Song-ae, Vladimir Beara, Rubin Carter, and Assi Dayan. After him are Menahem Golan, Siegfried Lenz, Sabah, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, and Larry Scott.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 147 out of 1,032. Before him are Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776), Princess Charlotte of Denmark (1789), Otto Jespersen (1860), Jesper Christensen (1948), Magnus, Duke of Holstein (1540), and Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784). After him are Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), Thorvald Stauning (1873), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), Piet Hein (1905), and Ulrich Salchow (1877).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Denmark

Among soccer players born in Denmark, Richard Møller Nielsen ranks 3. Before him are Peter Schmeichel (1963), and Allan Simonsen (1952). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Poul Nielsen (1891), Søren Lerby (1958), Kenneth Zohore (1994), Harald Nielsen (1941), Sophus Nielsen (1888), Frank Arnesen (1956), Kasper Schmeichel (1986), and John Hansen (1924).

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