SOCCER PLAYER

Vladica Popović

1935 - 2020

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Vladimir "Vladica" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир "Владица" Поповић; 17 March 1935 – 10 August 2020) was a Serbian professional footballer and manager. The biggest success in his coaching career was winning the Intercontinental Cup with Red Star Belgrade in 1991. Born in Zemun, Popović started playing at local side Jedinstvo but his talent was spotted while he was still very young and giants Red Star Belgrade brought him to their youth team where he will later play for more than a decade becoming team captain and also regular member of the Yugoslavia national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladica Popović has received more than 61,715 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Vladica Popović is the 1,071st most popular soccer player (up from 1,483rd in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 177th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Serbian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vladica Popović by language

Over the past year Vladica Popović has had the most page views in the with 12,550 views, followed by English (6,630), and Serbian (3,044). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (117.52%), Simple English (84.75%), and Southern Azerbaijani (83.89%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vladica Popović ranks 1,071 out of 21,273. Before him are N'Golo Kanté, Tatsuya Shiji, Leopold Kielholz, José Antonio Reyes, Fernando Couto, and Giovanni Lodetti. After him are Gordon Milne, Megumu Tamura, Akira Matsunaga, Shojiro Sugimura, Maicon Sisenando, and Minoru Kobata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Vladica Popović ranks 171. Before him are Ken Kercheval, Dudley Moore, Denise Perrier, Peter Schreier, Fiorenza Cossotto, and Elga Andersen. After him are Seymour Cassel, Shūji Terayama, Zeev Sternhell, Milena Vukotic, Don Norman, and Lola Novaković. Among people deceased in 2020, Vladica Popović ranks 194. Before him are Fred Willard, Sonja Ziemann, Pietro Anastasi, Adolfo Nicolás, Walid Muallem, and Joachim Yhombi-Opango. After him are Flavio Cotti, Branko Kostić, Zeev Sternhell, Jimmy McLane, Rishi Kapoor, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vladica Popović ranks 146 out of 661. Before him are Ceca (1973), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), Petar Bojović (1858), Petar of Serbia (870), Šaban Bajramović (1936), and Mihailo Petrović (1868). After him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen (1728), Sinan Sakić (1956), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Lola Novaković (1935), Momir Bulatović (1956), and Bogdan Bogdanović (1922).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Serbia

Among soccer players born in Serbia, Vladica Popović ranks 12. Before him are Miloš Milutinović (1933), Velibor Vasović (1939), Nemanja Vidić (1981), Dejan Stanković (1978), Todor Veselinović (1930), and Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910). After him are Bora Kostić (1930), Ivan Bek (1909), Milovan Rajevac (1954), Blagoje Marjanović (1907), Milorad Pavić (1921), and Aleksandar Mitrović (1994).

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