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SOCCER PLAYER

Valentino Mazzola

1919 - 1949

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Valentino Mazzola (Italian pronunciation: [valenˈtiːno matˈtsɔːla]; 26 January 1919 – 4 May 1949) was an Italian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. Considered one of the great number 10s in the history of football and, according to some, the best Italian footballer of all time, Mazzola was the captain and symbol of the "Grande Torino", the team recognised as one of the strongest in the world during the second half of the 1940s, with whom Mazzola won five Serie A championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valentino Mazzola has received more than 254,346 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Valentino Mazzola is the 315th most popular soccer player (down from 311th in 2019), the 1,573rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,452nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Valentino Mazzola ranks 315 out of 16,880. Before him are Masao Takada, Jari Litmanen, Gyula Zsengellér, Takeshi Natori, Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, and Dragoslav Šekularac. After him are Valentin Ivanov, David Trezeguet, Richard Møller Nielsen, Haruo Arima, Dettmar Cramer, and Takashi Takabayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Valentino Mazzola ranks 64. Before him are Gillo Pontecorvo, Mieczysław Weinberg, Ashraf Pahlavi, René Barrientos, Ernst Barkmann, and Bob Paisley. After him are Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Kiichi Miyazawa, Peter Abrahams, Wolfgang Wagner, Liberace, and Maurice Herzog. Among people deceased in 1949, Valentino Mazzola ranks 41. Before him are Harry Stack Sullivan, Ulrich Salchow, Alice Bailey, Béla Balázs, Nikola Zhekov, and Leonard Bloomfield. After him are Vasily Degtyaryov, Joaquín Turina, Yoshijirō Umezu, Maurice Blondel, Otto Wächter, and Hanns Albin Rauter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Valentino Mazzola ranks 1,573 out of 4,668. Before him are Myia (-600), Jacopo Amigoni (1682), Eleanor de' Medici (1567), Alfredo Casella (1883), Eusebius of Vercelli (283), and Dorando Pietri (1885). After him are Francesco Maria del Monte (1549), Rose of Viterbo (1233), Margherita de' Medici (1612), Maria Valtorta (1897), Pietro I Orseolo (928), and Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena (1562).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Valentino Mazzola ranks 24. Before him are Giampiero Boniperti (1928), Andrea Pirlo (1979), Antonio Conte (1969), Vittorio Pozzo (1886), Giovanni Ferrari (1907), and Lorenzo Buffon (1929). After him are Gaetano Scirea (1953), Marco Materazzi (1973), Alessandro Nesta (1976), Angelo Schiavio (1905), Gianfranco Zola (1966), and Gianpiero Combi (1902).

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