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Pedro Rocha

1942 - 2013

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Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈrotʃa]; 3 December 1942 – 2 December 2013) was a Uruguayan footballer who played 52 games for the Uruguay national team between 1961 and 1974. Nicknamed "el Verdugo" ("the Executioner"), he was a highly skillful midfielder and a prolific goalscorer, regarded by Pelé as "one of the 5 best players in the world". He was listed by the IFFHS as the 37th greatest South American player of the XXth century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Rocha is the 641st most popular soccer player (down from 308th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 19th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Pedro Rocha ranks 641 out of 21,273. Before him are Rabah Madjer, Emmanuel Petit, Agne Simonsson, Ian Rush, Hugo Meisl, and Viliam Schrojf. After him are Predrag Mijatović, Rainer Bonhof, Miho Kaneda, Pietro Rava, Gerard Piqué, and Robert Pires.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Pedro Rocha ranks 175. Before him are Herbjørg Wassmo, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Étienne Balibar, Nicole Fontaine, Rei Kawakubo, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. After him are Vasily Alekseyev, Richard Williams, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Ballard, Eliso Virsaladze, and Milton Nascimento. Among people deceased in 2013, Pedro Rocha ranks 101. Before him are Arthur Danto, Taihō Kōki, Eleanor Parker, Jack Vance, Clive Burr, and Dominique Venner. After him are Otfried Preußler, Joe Weider, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Stéphane Hessel, Wolfgang Sawallisch, and Álvaro Mutis.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Pedro Rocha ranks 32 out of 444. Before him are Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Roque Máspoli (1917), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Fructuoso Rivera (1784), and Edinson Cavani (1987). After him are Pablo Dorado (1908), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Jorge Batlle (1927), Álvaro Gestido (1907), Óscar Míguez (1927), and Ernesto Mascheroni (1907).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Pedro Rocha ranks 18. Before him are Obdulio Varela (1917), José Santamaría (1929), Alberto Suppici (1898), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Roque Máspoli (1917), and Edinson Cavani (1987). After him are Pablo Dorado (1908), Álvaro Gestido (1907), Óscar Míguez (1927), Ernesto Mascheroni (1907), Peregrino Anselmo (1902), and Santos Iriarte (1902).

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