SOCCER PLAYER

Ángel Labruna

1918 - 1983

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Ángel Amadeo Labruna (28 September 1918 – 19 September 1983) was an Argentine footballer and coach who played as a forward. With 323 goals scored in official matches, which include 294 league goals, Labruna is the 2nd all-time top scorer of Primera División after Paraguayan Arsenio Erico. Labruna was also part of the celebrated River Plate offense, nicknamed La Máquina (The Machine), and he was considered one of the best South-American footballers of his generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ángel Labruna has received more than 126,628 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ángel Labruna is the 874th most popular soccer player (down from 860th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 158th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ángel Labruna ranks 874 out of 21,273. Before him are Masashi Watanabe, Álvaro Morata, Shiro Azumi, Ronnie Hellström, Daniel Bertoni, and Amedeo Amadei. After him are Miguel Reina, Shigemaru Takenokoshi, Toshio Hirabayashi, Álvaro Recoba, Kozo Arai, and Ole Gunnar Solskjær.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ángel Labruna ranks 118. Before him are Robert Walker, Bobby Riggs, Raimon Panikkar, Adolfo Pedernera, Willi Graf, and Dora Ratjen. After him are Antonín Mrkos, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Humaira Begum, Kevin A. Lynch, George Mosse, and David Ausubel. Among people deceased in 1983, Ángel Labruna ranks 86. Before him are Anthony Blunt, Ferenc Plattkó, Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt, Rolf Stommelen, Jørgen Juve, and Donald Maclean. After him are Lamberto Maggiorani, Florence Owens Thompson, Salo Flohr, Grigori Aleksandrov, Hennes Weisweiler, and Jerzy Andrzejewski.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ángel Labruna ranks 157 out of 1,154. Before him are Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810), Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean (1926), Mauro Camoranesi (1976), Carlos Peucelle (1908), Adolfo Pedernera (1918), and Daniel Bertoni (1955). After him are Oscar Bonavena (1942), María Elena Walsh (1930), José Hernández (1834), Roberto Ayala (1973), Raúl Alberto Lastiri (1915), and Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1887).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Ángel Labruna ranks 59. Before him are Mauro Icardi (1993), Hugo Gatti (1944), Mauro Camoranesi (1976), Carlos Peucelle (1908), Adolfo Pedernera (1918), and Daniel Bertoni (1955). After him are Roberto Ayala (1973), Roberto Cherro (1907), Juan Hohberg (1926), Juan Ramón Verón (1944), Fernando Muslera (1986), and Mario Evaristo (1908).

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