SOCCER PLAYER

Santos Iriarte

1902 - 1968

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Victoriano Santos Iriarte (2 November 1902 – 10 November 1968), nicknamed "El Canario" (The Canary), was a Uruguayan football forward, member of the Uruguay national team that won the first-ever World Cup in 1930, and of Racing Club de Montevideo at the club level. Iriarte, an outside left, played all four of Uruguay's matches in the 1930 World Cup and scored two goals; one in the semifinal against Yugoslavia and one in the 68th minute of the final match to give Uruguay a 3–2 lead in their comeback win against Argentina. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Santos Iriarte has received more than 51,808 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Santos Iriarte is the 634th most popular soccer player (up from 648th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 41st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Santos Iriarte ranks 634 out of 21,273. Before him are Jesús María Pereda, Piet Schrijvers, Roy Makaay, Bernd Hölzenbein, Luis Molowny, and Phillip Cocu. After him are Christian Karembeu, André Abegglen, Miklós Fehér, Toshio Iwatani, Brian Laudrup, and Dondinho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Santos Iriarte ranks 94. Before him are Giuseppe Pella, Cesare Zavattini, Albert Bormann, Therese Brandl, Jayaprakash Narayan, and Darryl F. Zanuck. After him are Jan Tschichold, Elsa Lanchester, Abraham Wald, Nicolás Guillén, William Walton, and Samuel Goudsmit. Among people deceased in 1968, Santos Iriarte ranks 64. Before him are Hans F. K. Günther, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Mario Roatta, Augustin Bea, and Boris Lyatoshinsky. After him are Hitoshi Imamura, Rezső Seress, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Thomas Merton, Camille Huysmans, and Cornell Woolrich.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Santos Iriarte ranks 38 out of 444. Before him are Ernesto Mascheroni (1907), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Óscar Míguez (1927), Bernardo Arévalo (1958), and Fructuoso Rivera (1784). After him are Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923), Álvaro Gestido (1907), Peregrino Anselmo (1902), and Luis Cubilla (1940).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Santos Iriarte ranks 22. Before him are Pedro Petrone (1905), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Pablo Dorado (1908), Roque Máspoli (1917), Ernesto Mascheroni (1907), and Óscar Míguez (1927). After him are Álvaro Gestido (1907), Peregrino Anselmo (1902), Luis Cubilla (1940), Domingo Tejera (1899), Pablo Forlán (1945), and Santos Urdinarán (1900).

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