SOCCER PLAYER

Igor Netto

1930 - 1999

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Igor Aleksandrovich Netto (Russian: Игорь Александрович Нетто; 9 January 1930 – 30 March 1999) was a Russian footballer, considered one of the country's greatest players ever. He started out playing on the left of defense but, due to his offensive mentality, dribbling and technical abilities turned into a dynamic central midfielder. His versatility and footballing intelligence allowed him to play a number of positions across defense and midfield. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Igor Netto is the 620th most popular soccer player (down from 422nd in 2019), the 605th most popular biography from Russia (down from 539th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Igor Netto ranks 620 out of 21,273. Before him are Herbert Chapman, Edinson Cavani, Adalbert Deșu, Dejan Savićević, Juan Sebastián Verón, and Tokutaro Ukon. After him are Philipp Lahm, Alisson, Javier Clemente, Michel Hidalgo, Yoshio Kikugawa, and Preben Elkjær.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Igor Netto ranks 135. Before him are Sonny Rollins, Stephen Smale, Akiyuki Nosaka, Lina Kostenko, John Romita Sr., and Eugenio Castellotti. After him are Ornette Coleman, Michel Rocard, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, Colin Dexter, Jasper Johns, and Ted Hughes. Among people deceased in 1999, Igor Netto ranks 67. Before him are Gyula Zsengellér, Edward Dmytryk, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Charlotte Perriand, Hermine Braunsteiner, and Paul Bowles. After him are Barış Manço, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Viacheslav Chornovil, Ri Jong-ok, Maurice Couve de Murville, and Momčilo Đujić.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Igor Netto ranks 605 out of 3,761. Before him are Nicolas de Staël (1914), Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Yuri Lotman (1922), Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), and Mikhail Nesterov (1862). After him are Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Alexander Godunov (1949), George Sanders (1906), Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (1888), Vladimir Fock (1898), and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (1862).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Igor Netto ranks 4. Before him are Lev Yashin (1929), Rinat Dasayev (1957), and Valentin Ivanov (1934). After him are Mordechai Spiegler (1944), Eduard Streltsov (1937), Oleg Salenko (1969), Slava Metreveli (1936), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), Sergei Salnikov (1925), Andrey Arshavin (1981), and Valery Voronin (1939).

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