SOCCER PLAYER

Luis Galván

1948 - 2025

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Luis Adolfo Galván (24 February 1948 – 5 May 2025) was an Argentine footballer who played as a centre back. He played for Argentina when the team won the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Luis Galván is the 256th most popular soccer player (up from 1,523rd in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Argentina (up from 261st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Luis Galván ranks 256 out of 21,273. Before him are Kim Sung-gan, David James, Radomir Antić, Ko Takamoro, Teófilo Cubillas, and Emilio Butragueño. After him are Takehiko Kawanishi, Uichiro Hatta, Masao Nozawa, Son Heung-min, Héctor Castro, and Udo Lattek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Luis Galván ranks 79. Before him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Edwige Fenech, Amadou Toumani Touré, Tom Wilkinson, Nicolae Timofti, and Radomir Antić. After him are Brian Eno, William Gibson, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Svetlana Savitskaya, Edmund Kemper, and Jayalalithaa. Among people deceased in 2025, Luis Galván ranks 42. Before him are Costas Simitis, Ján Zachara, Alfredo Palacio, Vitold Fokin, Oleg Gordievsky, and Alfred Brendel. After him are Oliviero Toscani, Jules Wijdenbosch, Joseph Nye, Hugo Gatti, David Lodge, and Jair da Costa.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Luis Galván ranks 52 out of 1,154. Before him are Lucio Fontana (1899), Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), Francisco Varallo (1910), Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Violet Jessop (1887), and Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924). After him are Alberto Granado (1922), Mauricio Macri (1959), Bernardo Houssay (1887), Hugo Gatti (1944), Raimundo Orsi (1901), and Guillermo Vilas (1952).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Luis Galván ranks 15. Before him are César Luis Menotti (1938), Daniel Passarella (1953), Hernán Crespo (1975), Luis Monti (1901), Javier Zanetti (1973), and Francisco Varallo (1910). After him are Hugo Gatti (1944), Raimundo Orsi (1901), Ángel Di María (1988), Osvaldo Ardiles (1952), Ramón Díaz (1959), and Carlos Bilardo (1938).

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