SOCCER PLAYER

Helmut Rahn

1929 - 2003

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Helmut Rahn (16 August 1929 – 14 August 2003), known as Der Boss (The Boss), was a German footballer who played as a forward. He became a legend for having scored the winning goal in the final of the 1954 FIFA World Cup (West Germany vs. Hungary 3–2). Rahn, along with the German team, were decorated by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Rahn is the 205th most popular soccer player (down from 127th in 2019), the 949th most popular biography from Germany (down from 691st in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Soccer Player.

Helmut Rahn was a German footballer who was most famous for scoring the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup Final against Hungary.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Helmut Rahn ranks 205 out of 21,273. Before him are Carles Rexach, Helmut Schön, Grzegorz Lato, Bobby Robson, Javier Zanetti, and Yoshimatsu Oyama. After him are Akira Kitaguchi, Hirokazu Ninomiya, Takeshi Inoue, Kunitaka Sueoka, Pedro Cea, and Junji Kawano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Helmut Rahn ranks 79. Before him are Ágnes Heller, Lennart Johansson, Mike Hawthorn, Dick Clark, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, and George Steiner. After him are Lata Mangeshkar, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chadli Bendjedid, P. Ramlee, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Stirling Moss. Among people deceased in 2003, Helmut Rahn ranks 40. Before him are Gertrude Ederle, Franco Modigliani, Richard Crenna, Compay Segundo, Isser Harel, and Bernard Katz. After him are Alberto Sordi, Celia Cruz, Horst Buchholz, Leslie Cheung, Waichiro Omura, and Jack Elam.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Rahn ranks 949 out of 7,253. Before him are David Fabricius (1564), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Hrotsvitha (935), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557). After him are Herta Oberheuser (1911), Peter Weiss (1916), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Frank Wedekind (1864), Carl Stamitz (1745), and George, King of Saxony (1832).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Helmut Rahn ranks 14. Before him are Paul Breitner (1951), Rudi Völler (1960), Jürgen Klinsmann (1964), Berti Vogts (1946), Andreas Brehme (1960), and Helmut Schön (1915). After him are Wolfgang Overath (1943), Bert Trautmann (1923), Felix Magath (1953), Harald Schumacher (1954), Niko Kovač (1971), and Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939).

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