SOCCER PLAYER

Vavá

1934 - 2002

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Edvaldo Izidio Neto (12 November 1934 – 19 January 2002), commonly known as Vavá, was a Brazilian professional footballer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Nicknamed "Peito de Aço" (Steel Chest), he most notably played for Vasco da Gama, Atlético Madrid, Palmeiras and the Brazil national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vavá has received more than 511,312 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Vavá is the 35th most popular soccer player (down from 33rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Brazil (down from 20th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Vavá was a Brazilian footballer who played for Brazil in the 1958 and 1962 World Cups. He is most famous for his football career.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vavá ranks 35 out of 21,273. Before him are Raymond Kopa, Just Fontaine, Lothar Matthäus, Mircea Lucescu, Didi, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. After him are Roberto Baggio, Ronaldinho, Ruud Gullit, Paolo Maldini, Sándor Kocsis, and Antonín Panenka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Vavá ranks 16. Before him are Gene Cernan, Carl Sagan, Nana Mouskouri, Daniel Kahneman, Judi Dench, and Leonid Kravchuk. After him are Jane Goodall, Paco Rabanne, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ulrike Meinhof, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Pierre Richard. Among people deceased in 2002, Vavá ranks 11. Before him are Simo Häyhä, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Thor Heyerdahl, John Rawls, Billy Wilder, and Richard Harris. After him are Ruth Handler, László Kubala, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Traudl Junge, and Chuck Jones.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Vavá ranks 21 out of 2,236. Before him are Carlos Alberto Torres (1944), Sócrates (1954), Didi (1928), João Havelange (1916), Getúlio Vargas (1882), and Jorge Amado (1912). After him are Michel Temer (1940), Ronaldinho (1980), Luiz Felipe Scolari (1948), Djalma Santos (1929), Emerson Fittipaldi (1946), and Paulo Freire (1921).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Vavá ranks 11. Before him are Zico (1953), Jairzinho (1944), Rivellino (1946), Carlos Alberto Torres (1944), Sócrates (1954), and Didi (1928). After him are Ronaldinho (1980), Djalma Santos (1929), Romário (1966), Roberto Carlos (1973), Nílton Santos (1925), and Rivaldo (1972).

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