SOCCER PLAYER

Alex James

1901 - 1953

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Alexander Wilson James (14 September 1901 – 1 June 1953) was a Scottish international footballer. He is mostly noted as a playmaking lynchpin at Arsenal with whom he won six trophies from 1930 to the 1936 season. James featured as a deep-lying creative midfielder who provided a link between defence and attack. He was famed for his high level of footballing intelligence, outstanding ball control and supreme passing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alex James is the 6,372nd most popular soccer player (down from 5,189th in 2019), the 5,770th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,072nd in 2019) and the 370th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alex James ranks 6,372 out of 21,273. Before him are Edivaldo Hermoza, Romulus Gabor, Petr Jiráček, Hassan Nader, Paul Sauvage, and Koichi Nakazato. After him are Víctor Diogo, Kenji Honnami, Johan Walem, Gaël Kakuta, Noriko Baba, and Shunsuke Mori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Alex James ranks 347. Before him are George Tobias, E. B. Ford, Chester Morris, John C. Stennis, Gilda Gray, and Putte Kock. After him are Nikolai Khmelyov, Mary Eaton, George Moorhouse, Donald Howard Menzel, Oliver La Farge, and John Sherman Cooper. Among people deceased in 1953, Alex James ranks 193. Before him are Alan Curtis, Josef Ternström, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Herbert E. Ives, Edward Sedgwick, and Roland Young. After him are George Barnes, Robert F. Wagner, William Farnum, Asaf Ali, Richard Pearse, and Alexander Zelenko.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex James ranks 5,772 out of 8,785. Before him are Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey (1851), Thomas Allen (1944), Tom Chaplin (1979), Steve-O (1974), Guy Fletcher (1960), and Guy Berryman (1978). After him are Susie Wolff (1982), Sophia Myles (1980), Bill Aston (1900), Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899), Brian Friel (1929), and Eddie Howe (1977).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alex James ranks 370. Before him are Trevor Brooking (1948), Kieran Trippier (1990), Allenby Chilton (1918), Wes Brown (1979), Walter Smith (1948), and James Vaughan (1988). After him are Eddie Howe (1977), Alexander Wood (1907), Adam Lallana (1988), Alan McDonald (1963), Tony Waiters (1937), and Sammy Baird (1930).

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