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Adolfo Pedernera

1918 - 1995

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Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the greatest Argentine players of all time. Pedernera was the natural conductor of both the famous River Plate team known as La Máquina ("The Machine"), with whom he won several Argentine and South American titles, and the Millonarios team called Ballet Azul ("Blue Ballet") that won the Small Club World Cup in 1953 among many others Colombian titles. Pedernera's play with the Argentina national team, helped win the Copa América in 1941 and 1946, the latter tournament being named the Best Player. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolfo Pedernera is the 932nd most popular soccer player (down from 854th in 2019), the 154th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 155th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Adolfo Pedernera ranks 932 out of 21,273. Before him are Javier Saviola, Javier Irureta, Alberto Spencer, Juan Alonso, Luigi Bertolini, and Toyohito Mochizuki. After him are Viktor Gyökeres, Trifon Ivanov, Oleg Salenko, Bernd Bransch, Franco Causio, and Demetrio Albertini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Adolfo Pedernera ranks 110. Before him are Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Ida Lupino, Borys Paton, Ajahn Chah, and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky. After him are Massimo Girotti, Jerome Robbins, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Edith Massey, Theodore Sturgeon, and Helmut Lent. Among people deceased in 1995, Adolfo Pedernera ranks 106. Before him are Mia Martini, Juan Carlos Onganía, Georgy Beregovoy, J. Presper Eckert, Sylvester Stadler, and Srinagarindra. After him are André Frossard, Fred West, Gisela Mauermayer, David Marshall, Vladimír Dzurilla, and Leila Mourad.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Adolfo Pedernera ranks 154 out of 1,154. Before him are Sergio Goycochea (1963), Mario Evaristo (1908), José Hernández (1834), Santiago Solari (1976), Agustín Pedro Justo (1876), and Javier Saviola (1981). After him are Carlos Lacoste (1929), Norma Aleandro (1936), Alejandro Agustín Lanusse (1918), Ariel Ortega (1974), Carlos Peucelle (1908), and Emiliano Martínez (1992).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Adolfo Pedernera ranks 54. Before him are Juan Ramón Verón (1944), Lionel Scaloni (1978), Sergio Goycochea (1963), Mario Evaristo (1908), Santiago Solari (1976), and Javier Saviola (1981). After him are Ariel Ortega (1974), Carlos Peucelle (1908), Emiliano Martínez (1992), Roberto Cherro (1907), Roberto Ayala (1973), and Alfio Basile (1943).

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