SOCCER PLAYER

Roger Piantoni

1931 - 2018

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Roger Piantoni (26 December 1931 – 26 May 2018) was a French footballer who played as an inside-forward and was a star on the France national team in the late 1950s. During the 1949–1950 season, he was the champion of Lorraine with his team, and was the top scorer in the league with 35 goals. At the 1958 FIFA World Cup, Piantoni was considered one of the best French players of his time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Roger Piantoni has received more than 108,902 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Roger Piantoni is the 900th most popular soccer player (up from 967th in 2019), the 2,708th most popular biography from France (up from 3,005th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Soccer Player.

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  • 110k

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  • 54.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roger Piantoni ranks 900 out of 21,273. Before him are Roy Keane, Takao Nishiyama, Franky Van der Elst, Géza Kalocsay, Marcel Koller, and Sergei Aleinikov. After him are Nuno Gomes, Toni Turek, Erich Ribbeck, Pahiño, Faas Wilkes, and Ernst Ocwirk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Roger Piantoni ranks 174. Before him are Neil Postman, Dominic Chianese, Robert Morris, Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, and Mwai Kibaki. After him are Rolf Hochhuth, Philip Baker Hall, Jan Troell, Lars Hörmander, Ita Ever, and Manolo Escobar. Among people deceased in 2018, Roger Piantoni ranks 137. Before him are Katherine MacGregor, John Sulston, M. Karunanidhi, Robert Morris, Moshé Mizrahi, and Jalaluddin Haqqani. After him are Eunice Gayson, Ola Ullsten, Trần Đại Quang, Walter Mischel, Sergio Marchionne, and Nancy Roman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Piantoni ranks 2,708 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Lecocq (1832), Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (1913), Claude Farrère (1876), Jean-Baptiste Dubos (1670), Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), and Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724). After him are Marie Elisabeth of France (1572), Paul Héroult (1863), Léon Werth (1878), Clément Juglar (1819), Louis Delluc (1890), and Paul Ulrich Villard (1860).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, Roger Piantoni ranks 43. Before him are Paul Pogba (1993), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989), Eric Abidal (1979), Christophe Galtier (1966), Lucien Muller (1934), and Dominique Colonna (1928). After him are Patrick Battiston (1957), Bruno Metsu (1954), Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Jean Vincent (1930), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), and Claude Le Roy (1948).

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