SOCCER PLAYER

Silvio Piola

1913 - 1996

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Silvio Piola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilvjo ˈpjɔːla]; 29 September 1913 – 4 October 1996) was an Italian footballer who played as a striker. He is known as a highly prominent figure in the history of Italian football due to several records he set, and he is regarded as one of the greatest strikers of his generation, as well as one of the best Italian players of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Silvio Piola has received more than 787,566 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Silvio Piola is the 71st most popular soccer player (down from 68th in 2019), the 680th most popular biography from Italy (up from 809th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Silvio Piola is most famous for being the all-time leading goalscorer in the Italian league, and for scoring a goal in the 1934 World Cup Final.

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  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Silvio Piola ranks 71 out of 21,273. Before him are Oliver Kahn, Luigi Riva, Gheorghe Hagi, George Weah, Franco Baresi, and Gianni Rivera. After him are Francesco Totti, Gianluigi Buffon, Miguel Muñoz, Gordon Banks, Rivaldo, and Neymar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Silvio Piola ranks 27. Before him are Benjamin Britten, Kenzō Tange, Lon Nol, Roger Garaudy, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, and Paul Erdős. After him are Bảo Đại, Carmen Amaya, Stanford Moore, Trevor Howard, Frances Farmer, and Irwin Shaw. Among people deceased in 1996, Silvio Piola ranks 18. Before him are Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, René Lacoste, Paul Erdős, and Lars Ahlfors. After him are Babrak Karmal, Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, Sergiu Celibidache, Joan Clarke, and Marcel Carné.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Silvio Piola ranks 680 out of 5,161. Before him are Pietro da Cortona (1596), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Patrizia Reggiani (1948), Palmiro Togliatti (1893), Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510), and Euhemerus (-330). After him are Joanna I of Naples (1326), Eugenio Montale (1896), Francesco Totti (1976), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Dario Argento (1940), and Francis of Paola (1416).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Silvio Piola ranks 10. Before him are Paolo Maldini (1968), Paolo Rossi (1956), Roberto Mancini (1964), Luigi Riva (1944), Franco Baresi (1960), and Gianni Rivera (1943). After him are Francesco Totti (1976), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Giacinto Facchetti (1942), Alessandro Del Piero (1974), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), and Filippo Inzaghi (1973).

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