SOCCER PLAYER

Bill Foulkes

1932 - 2013

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William Anthony Foulkes ( or ; 5 January 1932 – 25 November 2013) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United in the Busby Babes teams of the 1950s, and also in the 1960s. His favoured position was centre-half. For Manchester United, he played 688 games which places him at number 4 on the all-time list of appearances behind Ryan Giggs, Bobby Charlton and Paul Scholes. He made 3 appearances as a substitute. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bill Foulkes is the 1,274th most popular soccer player (down from 820th in 2019), the 2,417th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,709th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bill Foulkes ranks 1,274 out of 21,273. Before him are Oscar, Bora Kostić, Jean-Marc Bosman, Bernard Chiarelli, Mario Corso, and Djibril Cissé. After him are Jorge Olguín, Angelo Domenghini, Branco, Roberto Rosato, Guido Masetti, and Milovan Rajevac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Bill Foulkes ranks 203. Before him are Pentti Linkola, Bob Pettit, Bruno S., Tom Robbins, Parry O'Brien, and Jerry Unser Jr.. After him are Mancur Olson, Igor Kirillov, Helmut Griem, Stefanie Zweig, Bernhard Vogel, and Blagoje Adžić. Among people deceased in 2013, Bill Foulkes ranks 171. Before him are Yury Yakovlev, S. N. Goenka, Manolo Escobar, Lothar Bisky, Julien Ries, and Georges Lautner. After him are Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Zao Wou-Ki, Ronnie Biggs, Tom Sharpe, Heinz Flohe, and Amedeo Amadei.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bill Foulkes ranks 2,417 out of 8,785. Before him are Catherine of York (1479), Ian Stewart (1945), The Edge (1961), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Simon MacCorkindale (1952), and Ed Sheeran (1991). After him are Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893), Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots (1404), William Hartnell (1908), Martin Brundle (1959), and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Bill Foulkes ranks 82. Before him are Roger Hunt (1938), Bobby Collins (1931), Roger Byrne (1929), Peter Crouch (1981), Gordon Milne (1937), and Glen Johnson (1984). After him are Jamie Vardy (1987), Ernest Payne (1884), John Robertson (1953), Tommy Lawrence (1940), Paul Robinson (1979), and Jimmy Mullen (1923).

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