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Roger Piantoni

1931 - 2018

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Roger Piantoni (26 December 1931 – 26 May 2018) was a French footballer who played as an inside-forward and was a star on the France national team in the late 1950s. During the 1949–1950 season, he was the champion of Lorraine with his team, and was the top scorer in the league with 35 goals. At the 1958 FIFA World Cup, Piantoni was considered one of the best French players of his time. He was nicknamed Bout d'chou, meaning "Cabbage Tip", ranking as the sixth top scorer in the French Championship with a total of 203 goals in Division 1. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Piantoni is the 994th most popular soccer player (down from 899th in 2019), the 2,750th most popular biography from France (down from 2,709th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Roger Piantoni ranks 994 out of 21,273. Before him are Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Paulo Bento, Henning Jensen, Mats Hummels, Paul Gascoigne, and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. After him are Murtaz Khurtsilava, Matt Le Tissier, Ján Pivarník, Hugo Lloris, Marcos Alonso, and Takeshi Ono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Roger Piantoni ranks 178. Before him are Linda Nochlin, Dominic Chianese, Cristina Deutekom, Iajuddin Ahmed, Rolf Hochhuth, and Aleksei Gubarev. After him are Tom Wilson, Umberto Lenzi, Heisuke Hironaka, Shintaro Katsu, Larry Silverstein, and Atsuko Ikeda. Among people deceased in 2018, Roger Piantoni ranks 145. Before him are Dennis Nilsen, Lill-Babs, Michael Anderson, Peter G. Peterson, Whitey Bulger, and June Whitfield. After him are Oleg Tabakov, Venantino Venantini, Neil Simon, Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, David Ogden Stiers, and Vladimir Lyakhov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Roger Piantoni ranks 2,750 out of 6,770. Before him are Claire Lacombe (1765), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989), Eucherius of Lyon (380), Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (1278), Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624), and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746). After him are Thomas Bérard (1300), René Crevel (1900), Leodegar (616), Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1722), and Bayezid Osman (1924).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, Roger Piantoni ranks 42. Before him are Gonzalo Higuaín (1987), Gabriel Hanot (1889), Bruno Metsu (1954), Felice Borel (1914), István Nyers (1924), and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (1989). After him are Hugo Lloris (1986), Ousmane Dembélé (1997), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), Christophe Galtier (1966), Jean Vincent (1930), and Ludovic Giuly (1976).

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