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Roberto Baggio

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Roberto Baggio (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto ˈbaddʒo]; born 18 February 1967) is an Italian former professional footballer who mainly played as a second striker, or as an attacking midfielder, although he was capable of playing in several offensive positions. He is the former president of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation. A technically gifted creative playmaker and set piece specialist, renowned for his curling free-kicks, dribbling skills, and goalscoring, Baggio is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.In 1999, he came fourth in the FIFA Player of the Century internet poll, and was chosen on the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roberto Baggio has received more than 6,162,020 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Roberto Baggio is the 36th most popular soccer player (up from 42nd in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Italy (up from 597th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Roberto Baggio is most famous for being a professional footballer. He played for Italian club Juventus and the Italian national team, and is considered one of the best players of all time.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Roberto Baggios by language

Over the past year Roberto Baggio has had the most page views in the with 914,938 views, followed by Italian (613,461), and Spanish (522,216). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (770.63%), Esperanto (512.31%), and Lithuanian (400.00%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roberto Baggio ranks 36 out of 21,273. Before him are Just Fontaine, Lothar Matthäus, Mircea Lucescu, Didi, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, and Vavá. After him are Ronaldinho, Ruud Gullit, Paolo Maldini, Sándor Kocsis, Antonín Panenka, and Jürgen Klinsmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Roberto Baggio ranks 3. Before him are Vin Diesel, and Jason Statham. After him are Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Anna Nicole Smith, Kurt Cobain, Jürgen Klopp, David Guetta, Sung Jae-gi, Kane, and Mikheil Saakashvili.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Roberto Baggio ranks 485 out of 5,161. Before him are Giuliano de' Medici (1453), Christine de Pizan (1365), Pope Honorius I (585), Januarius (272), Mario Draghi (1947), and John Cabot (1450). After him are Julia the Elder (-39), Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Bohemond I of Antioch (1054), Ennius (-239), Antonello da Messina (1430), and Lavinia Fontana (1552).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Roberto Baggio ranks 3. Before him are Giuseppe Meazza (1910), and Cesare Maldini (1932). After him are Paolo Maldini (1968), Paolo Rossi (1956), Roberto Mancini (1964), Luigi Riva (1944), Franco Baresi (1960), Gianni Rivera (1943), Silvio Piola (1913), Francesco Totti (1976), and Gianluigi Buffon (1978).

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