1923 - 2010
Stjepan Bobek (pronounced [stjêpaːn bǒbek]; 3 December 1923 – 22 August 2010) was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football striker and later football manager.Usually a forward or attacking midfielder, Bobek was renowned for his technique, vision and goalscoring ability and is commonly regarded as one of Yugoslavia's greatest players. He is remembered for his time at the Serbian side Partizan, where he moved to following the end of World War II. He played for Partizan between 1945 and 1959 helping them win two Yugoslav First League titles and four Yugoslav Cups, and was named the club's greatest player in history in 1995. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stjepan Bobek has received more than 262,784 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Stjepan Bobek is the 219th most popular soccer player (up from 271st in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Croatia and the 5th most popular Croatian Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Stjepan Bobek ranks 219 out of 16,880. Before him are Willy van de Kerkhof, Yozo Aoki, Manuel Neuer, Arjen Robben, Zbigniew Boniek, and Hideo Sakai. After him are Mauricio Pochettino, Moacir Barbosa Nascimento, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Teófilo Cubillas, Hiroaki Sato, and Ramón Díaz.
1951 - Present
HPI: 59.47
Rank: 213
1929 - 2014
HPI: 59.45
Rank: 214
1986 - Present
HPI: 59.44
Rank: 215
1984 - Present
HPI: 59.43
Rank: 216
1956 - Present
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 217
1909 - 1996
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 218
1923 - 2010
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 219
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 220
1921 - 2000
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 221
1973 - Present
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 222
1949 - Present
HPI: 59.18
Rank: 223
1932 - 1988
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 224
1959 - Present
HPI: 59.09
Rank: 225
Among people born in 1923, Stjepan Bobek ranks 56. Before him are Lola Flores, Linda Christian, Dev Anand, Aristides Pereira, Queen Anne of Romania, and Nizar Qabbani. After him are Walter Kohn, Freeman Dyson, Rasul Gamzatov, Shūsaku Endō, Chuck Yeager, and Hank Williams. Among people deceased in 2010, Stjepan Bobek ranks 47. Before him are Maria Kaczyńska, John Fenn, Vladimir Arnold, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Anton Geesink, and Bekim Fehmiu. After him are Arthur Penn, Ryszard Kaczorowski, Mario Monicelli, Francisco Varallo, Enzo Bearzot, and Juliet Anderson.
1923 - 1995
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 50
1923 - 2011
HPI: 60.05
Rank: 51
1923 - 2011
HPI: 59.91
Rank: 52
1923 - 2011
HPI: 59.52
Rank: 53
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 54
1923 - 1998
HPI: 59.24
Rank: 55
1923 - 2010
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 56
1923 - 2016
HPI: 59.17
Rank: 57
1923 - 2020
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 58
1923 - 2003
HPI: 59.02
Rank: 59
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 60
1923 - 2020
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 61
1923 - 1953
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 62
1942 - 2010
HPI: 60.22
Rank: 41
1917 - 2010
HPI: 60.21
Rank: 42
1937 - 2010
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 43
1925 - 2010
HPI: 59.59
Rank: 44
1934 - 2010
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 45
1936 - 2010
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 46
1923 - 2010
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 47
1922 - 2010
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 48
1919 - 2010
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 49
1915 - 2010
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 50
1910 - 2010
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 51
1927 - 2010
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 52
1938 - 2010
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 53
Among people born in Croatia, Stjepan Bobek ranks 46 out of 589. Before him are Dražan Jerković (1936), Luka Modrić (1985), Sylva Koscina (1933), Josip Skoblar (1941), Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815), and Ivan Meštrović (1883). After him are Ljudevit Gaj (1809), Ante Gotovina (1955), Matthias Flacius (1520), Slavko Kvaternik (1878), Veljko Kadijević (1925), and Luigi Dallapiccola (1904).
1936 - 2008
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 40
1985 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 41
1933 - 1994
HPI: 59.65
Rank: 42
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 43
1815 - 1905
HPI: 59.39
Rank: 44
1883 - 1962
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 45
1923 - 2010
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 46
1809 - 1872
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 47
1955 - Present
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 48
1520 - 1575
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 49
1878 - 1947
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 50
1925 - 2014
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 51
1904 - 1975
HPI: 58.75
Rank: 52
Among soccer players born in Croatia, Stjepan Bobek ranks 5. Before him are Davor Šuker (1968), Dražan Jerković (1936), Luka Modrić (1985), and Josip Skoblar (1941). After him are Vladimir Beara (1928), Branko Zebec (1929), Zlatko Čajkovski (1923), Zvonimir Boban (1968), Mario Mandžukić (1986), Ilija Petković (1945), and Bernard Vukas (1927).
1968 - Present
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 1
1936 - 2008
HPI: 59.99
Rank: 2
1985 - Present
HPI: 59.93
Rank: 3
1941 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 4
1923 - 2010
HPI: 59.22
Rank: 5
1928 - 2014
HPI: 57.39
Rank: 6
1929 - 1988
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 7
1923 - 1998
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 8
1968 - Present
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 9
1986 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 10
1945 - 2020
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 11
1927 - 1983
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 12