SOCCER PLAYER

Zoltán Czibor

1929 - 1997

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Zoltán Czibor (23 August 1929 – 1 September 1997) was a Hungarian footballer who played for several Hungarian clubs, including Ferencváros and Budapest Honvéd, and the Hungary national team before joining CF Barcelona. Czibor played as a left-winger or striker and was notable for having a powerful shot, good pace and excellent ball control. During the 1950s he was part of the Magical Magyars, reaching the World Cup final with them in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zoltán Czibor has received more than 231,796 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Zoltán Czibor is the 134th most popular soccer player (down from 98th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 77th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Zoltán Czibor is most famous for his football career. He played for Hungary in the 1954 and 1958 World Cups, and was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1952 Olympics.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.13

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Zoltán Czibor ranks 134 out of 21,273. Before him are Lucien Laurent, Filippo Inzaghi, Gérson, Edwin van der Sar, Tostão, and Jan Jongbloed. After him are Alcides Ghiggia, Allan Simonsen, Sergio Ramos, Carlos Valderrama, Robert Lewandowski, and Harald Schumacher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Zoltán Czibor ranks 49. Before him are Bruno Cremer, Milorad Pavić, Helmut Rahn, Eric Kandel, Werner Arber, and Bill Evans. After him are Christa Wolf, Yevgeny Primakov, Gudrun Burwitz, Karolos Papoulias, Günter Schabowski, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Among people deceased in 1997, Zoltán Czibor ranks 35. Before him are Aldo Rossi, Clyde Tombaugh, Robert Mitchum, Carl Gustav Hempel, Edward Mills Purcell, and Dora Maar. After him are Chien-Shiung Wu, Willem de Kooning, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, Cornelius Castoriadis, John Eccles, and Eugene Merle Shoemaker.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Zoltán Czibor ranks 85 out of 1,077. Before him are Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians (940), Avram Hershko (1937), Irene of Hungary (1088), Marcel Breuer (1902), Stephen II of Hungary (1101), and Felix Salten (1869). After him are Michael Curtiz (1886), Theodore von Kármán (1881), Violant of Hungary (1215), Stephen III of Hungary (1147), József Bozsik (1925), and Ladislaus III of Hungary (1199).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Zoltán Czibor ranks 7. Before him are Ferenc Puskás (1927), Sándor Kocsis (1929), László Kubala (1927), Flórián Albert (1941), Béla Guttmann (1899), and Nándor Hidegkuti (1922). After him are József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), György Sárosi (1912), Gyula Lóránt (1923), and Ferenc Bene (1944).

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