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Gianfranco Zola

1966 - Today

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Gianfranco Zola (Italian pronunciation: [dʒaɱˈfraŋko dˈdzɔːla]; born 5 July 1966) is an Italian football executive, manager, and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He is currently vice-president of the Lega Pro, the Italian Serie C football league. He spent the first decade of his playing career in Italy, most notably with Napoli alongside Diego Maradona and Careca where he won the 1989–90 Serie A title, and at Parma where he won the Italian Super Cup and the 1994–95 UEFA Cup. He later moved to English side Chelsea, where he was voted the Football Writers' Player of the Year in the 1996–97 season. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gianfranco Zola is the 504th most popular soccer player (down from 411th in 2019), the 1,620th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,610th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gianfranco Zola ranks 504 out of 21,273. Before him are José Santamaría, Juninho Pernambucano, Hans Schäfer, Jan Ceulemans, Kiyoshi Tomizawa, and Tadahiko Ueda. After him are Roberto Boninsegna, Valentin Ivanov, John Toshack, Michihiro Ozawa, Jürgen Grabowski, and Norio Yoshimizu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Gianfranco Zola ranks 37. Before him are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Kentaro Miura, Cláudio Taffarel, Stefan Edberg, Marco Hietala, and Jonathan Edwards. After him are Dean Cain, Cindy Crawford, Julen Lopetegui, Luke Perry, Janet Jackson, and Zlatko Dalić.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 1,620 out of 5,161. Before him are Marcus Livius Drusus (-200), Matteo Carcassi (1792), Raffaele Riario (1461), Veronica Franco (1546), Jacopo Riccati (1676), and Wacho (500). After him are Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma (1678), Maria, Queen of Sicily (1363), Adriano Banchieri (1568), Roberto Boninsegna (1943), Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (-116), and Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 36. Before him are Alessandro Costacurta (1966), Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Valentino Mazzola (1919), Alessandro Nesta (1976), Marco Materazzi (1973), and Daniele Massaro (1961). After him are Roberto Boninsegna (1943), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Marco Tardelli (1954), Giuseppe Bergomi (1963), Nevio Scala (1947), and Alessandro Altobelli (1955).

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