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Marco Coll

1935 - 2017

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Marco Tulio Coll Tesillo (23 August 1935 – 5 June 2017), also known as El Olímpico was a Colombian professional footballer. He played for Junior de Barranquilla and other clubs, and represented Colombia in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He was famous for scoring the first and only Olympic goal in any men's FIFA World Cup, beating legendary goalkeeper Lev Yashin in a 4–4 draw against the Soviets in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marco Coll is the 3,237th most popular soccer player (up from 3,552nd in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Colombia (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Colombian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Marco Coll ranks 3,237 out of 21,273. Before him are Abelardo Fernández, Zdravko Rajkov, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Mehdi Taremi, Ernesto Belis, and Birger Rosengren. After him are Alex, Ephrem M'Bom, Jean Kalala N'Tumba, Mykhailo Mudryk, Maho Shimizu, and Luis de Souza Ferreira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Marco Coll ranks 363. Before him are Märta Tikkanen, Moisés Solana, Michael Winner, Rudi Hoffmann, Kiki Kogelnik, and Henning Enoksen. After him are Ali Al-Naimi, Ervin Zádor, Arnaldo Pambianco, Cheo Feliciano, Hans Sturm, and Türkan Saylan. Among people deceased in 2017, Marco Coll ranks 386. Before him are Halit Akçatepe, Li Li-hua, Sandra Reemer, Rosa Taikon, Vladimir Makanin, and Hans Gerschwiler. After him are Ueli Steck, Paul G. Comba, Viktor Tsaryov, Danuta Szaflarska, Atanase Sciotnic, and Yuriy Poyarkov.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Marco Coll ranks 84 out of 356. Before him are Miguel Abadía Méndez (1867), David Ospina (1988), Xiomara Acevedo (null), Luis Díaz (1997), Carlos Bacca (1986), and Carlos Vives (1961). After him are Miguel Antonio Caro (1843), Fernando Vallejo (1942), Efraín Sánchez (1926), Reinaldo Rueda (1957), Iván Duque Márquez (1976), and Timoleón Jiménez (1959).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Colombia

Among soccer players born in Colombia, Marco Coll ranks 16. Before him are Freddy Rincón (1966), Hernán Gaviria (1969), Mario Yepes (1976), David Ospina (1988), Luis Díaz (1997), and Carlos Bacca (1986). After him are Efraín Sánchez (1926), Reinaldo Rueda (1957), Juan Carlos Osorio (1961), Alessandro Frigerio (1914), Francisco Zuluaga (1929), and Adolfo Valencia (1968).

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