SOCCER PLAYER

Uwe Seeler

1936 - 2022

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Uwe Seeler (German pronunciation: [ˈuːvə ˈzeːlɐ]; 5 November 1936 – 21 July 2022) was a German footballer and football official. As a striker, he was a prolific scorer for Hamburger SV and also made 72 appearances for the West Germany national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in German football history, Seeler was named one of FIFA's 100 greatest living players by Pelé in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uwe Seeler has received more than 854,397 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Uwe Seeler is the 60th most popular soccer player (up from 109th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 776th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Soccer Player.

Uwe Seeler is a retired German footballer and coach who played for Hamburger SV and the West German national team. He is the only player to have won the European Cup (now called the Champions League) four times, and he is one of three players to have won eight German championships.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Uwe Seeler ranks 60 out of 21,273. Before him are Ricardo Zamora, Fernando Santos, Flórián Albert, Roberto Carlos, Francisco Gento, and Roberto Mancini. After him are Luis Suárez, David Beckham, Roger Milla, Nílton Santos, Oliver Kahn, and Luigi Riva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Uwe Seeler ranks 24. Before him are Ismail Kadare, Wilt Chamberlain, Dennis Hopper, Ursula Andress, Barack Obama Sr., and Harald zur Hausen. After him are Zubin Mehta, Virna Lisi, David Carradine, Michael Landon, Ferid Murad, and Richard Bach. Among people deceased in 2022, Uwe Seeler ranks 24. Before him are Ben Roy Mottelson, Vivienne Westwood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Robbie Coltrane, José Eduardo dos Santos, and Francisco Gento. After him are Kane Tanaka, Sidney Poitier, Dietrich Mateschitz, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Angela Lansbury, and Lata Mangeshkar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Uwe Seeler ranks 432 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1904), Max Bruch (1838), Hans Fischer (1881), Georg von Küchler (1881), and Carol I of Romania (1839). After him are Elsa Einstein (1876), Martin Waldseemüller (1470), Gerhard Domagk (1895), Klaus Meine (1948), Felix Klein (1849), and Hans Krebs (1898).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Uwe Seeler ranks 6. Before him are Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Gerd Müller (1945), Lothar Matthäus (1961), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), and Jürgen Klinsmann (1964). After him are Oliver Kahn (1969), Paul Breitner (1951), Rudi Völler (1960), Andreas Brehme (1960), Fritz Walter (1920), and Bert Trautmann (1923).

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