SOCCER PLAYER

Włodzimierz Smolarek

1957 - 2012

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Włodzimierz Wojciech Smolarek (16 July 1957 – 7 March 2012) was a Polish footballer who played as a winger or an attacking midfielder. He played most of his 20-year professional career with Widzew Łódź and Utrecht, appearing in more than 200 official games for the former. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Włodzimierz Smolarek has received more than 183,955 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Włodzimierz Smolarek is the 591st most popular soccer player (up from 1,475th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Poland (up from 763rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Polish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Włodzimierz Smolarek ranks 591 out of 21,273. Before him are Sandro Puppo, Romelu Lukaku, Jimmy Greaves, Paul Gascoigne, Wayne Rooney, and Ján Popluhár. After him are Rainer Bonhof, Óscar Míguez, Harry Gregg, Poul Nielsen, Gonzalo Higuaín, and Michael Owen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Włodzimierz Smolarek ranks 67. Before him are Mukesh Ambani, Nick Cave, Ahmet Kaya, Adrian Smith, Bamir Topi, and Carrie Lam. After him are Timothy Spall, Joaquim de Almeida, Wolfgang Ketterle, Janick Gers, Lucien Favre, and Klaus Augenthaler. Among people deceased in 2012, Włodzimierz Smolarek ranks 97. Before him are Marcos Alonso, Giorgio Chinaglia, Tonino Guerra, Ulric Neisser, Manuel Fraga, and Vidal Sassoon. After him are Alfred Schmidt, Lina Romay, Andy Williams, Nora Ephron, Carlo Maria Martini, and Scott McKenzie.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Włodzimierz Smolarek ranks 408 out of 1,694. Before him are Gerhard Klopfer (1905), Johann Adam Hiller (1728), Florian Znaniecki (1882), Mieszko I Tanglefoot (1132), Krystian Zimerman (1956), and Anny Ondra (1903). After him are Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz (1893), Helmuth von Pannwitz (1898), Wilhelm Kube (1887), Ewa Kopacz (1956), Oskar R. Lange (1904), and Bezprym (987).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Poland

Among soccer players born in Poland, Włodzimierz Smolarek ranks 10. Before him are Zbigniew Boniek (1956), Udo Lattek (1935), Kazimierz Deyna (1947), Ernst Wilimowski (1916), Lukas Podolski (1985), and Włodzimierz Lubański (1947). After him are Jerzy Dudek (1973), Andrzej Szarmach (1950), Wolfgang Weber (1944), Władysław Żmuda (1954), Jan Tomaszewski (1948), and Wojciech Szczęsny (1990).

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