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Gianluca Pagliuca

1966 - Today

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Gianluca Pagliuca (Italian pronunciation: [dʒanˈluːka paʎˈʎuːka]; born 18 December 1966) is an Italian football coach and former professional goalkeeper. He is regarded by pundits as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation, and one of Italy's best keepers ever. Throughout his career, he played for Sampdoria, Inter, Bologna, and Ascoli in Italy, winning several domestic and international trophies. At international level, he represented Italy at three FIFA World Cups (1990, 1994, and 1998), most notably reaching the 1994 World Cup final as Italy's starting goalkeeper. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gianluca Pagliuca is the 653rd most popular soccer player (down from 614th in 2019), the 1,860th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,937th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gianluca Pagliuca ranks 653 out of 21,273Before him are Robert Pires, Hulk, Ove Kindvall, Clodoaldo, Ilija Petković, and Álvaro Morata. After him are Aldair, Roberto Martínez, Pablo Dorado, Héctor Rial, Gerry Byrne, and Giuseppe Baresi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Gianluca Pagliuca ranks 50Before him are Billy Zane, Enrico Letta, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Cusack, Jeremy Hunt, and Dejan Savićević. After him are Emmanuelle Seigner, David Schwimmer, Paul Ritter, Enrique Peña Nieto, Cecilia Bartoli, and Rinat Akhmetov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gianluca Pagliuca ranks 1,860 out of 5,161Before him are Claudio Merulo (1533), Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (1472), Hieronymus Fabricius (1533), Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma (1666), Arioald (550), and Gianfranco Ferré (1944). After him are Ottavio Piccolomini (1599), Giuseppe Sarti (1729), Vitalis of Milan (null), Thomas of Celano (1185), Franz Joseph I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1726), and Properzia de' Rossi (1490).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Gianluca Pagliuca ranks 48Before him are Alessandro Altobelli (1955), Nereo Rocco (1912), Alfredo Foni (1911), Christian Vieri (1973), Tarcisio Burgnich (1939), and Pietro Rava (1916). After him are Giuseppe Baresi (1958), Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), Enrico Albertosi (1939), Fabio Cudicini (1935), Mario Balotelli (1990), and Giorgio Chinaglia (1947).