SOCCER PLAYER

Steve Sumner

1955 - 2017

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Steven Paul Sumner (2 April 1955 – 8 February 2017) was an English-born, New Zealand footballer who played as a midfielder. He was captain of the national team during the country's first successful campaign to qualify for the World Cup, in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve Sumner has received more than 65,559 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Steve Sumner is the 5,764th most popular soccer player (up from 5,835th in 2019), the 5,389th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,521st in 2019) and the 279th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Steve Sumner ranks 5,764 out of 21,273Before him are Charlie Buchan, Matteo Ferrari, Sérgio Oliveira, Dimitar Largov, Marcus Tulio Tanaka, and Damien Duff. After him are Lisandro Martínez, Pipo Rodríguez, Juninho Fonseca, Wilner Nazaire, Rubén Correa, and Gonçalo Guedes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Steve Sumner ranks 524Before him are Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Greg Norman, Anne Henning, Eduardo Bonvallet, Bill Laswell, and Andy Tennant. After him are Miloš Hrstić, Cundi, Yolanda King, Detlef Michel, Oksana Shvets, and Hiroshi Hayano. Among people deceased in 2017, Steve Sumner ranks 553Before him are Cheick Tioté, Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov, George Mostow, Hugo Budinger, Karel Schoeman, and Ryszard Parulski. After him are William H. Gass, Rhodri Morgan, Fernand Decanali, Yash Pal, Mario Tullio Montano, and Richard Wilbur.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Steve Sumner ranks 5,389 out of 8,785Before him are Malcolm Allison (1927), Nick Griffin (1959), George Hutson (1889), Charlie Buchan (1891), Caryl Churchill (1938), and Edwin Montagu (1879). After him are Tom Watson (1859), Max Minghella (1985), Kenneth Williams (1926), John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (1934), Paul Mariner (1953), and Joanna Baillie (1762).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Steve Sumner ranks 279Before him are Jordan Pickford (1994), Ron Flowers (1934), Adrian Alston (1949), Alan Mullery (1941), Malcolm Allison (1927), and Charlie Buchan (1891). After him are Paul Mariner (1953), Bukayo Saka (2001), Walter Smith (1948), Peter Reid (1956), George Eastham (1936), and Andy Auld (1900).