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Sandro Mazzola

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Alessandro "Sandro" Mazzola (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsandro matˈtsɔːla]; born 8 November 1942) is an Italian former professional footballer, who played as a forward or attacking midfielder for Internazionale and the Italy national team. He has worked also as a football analyst and commentator on the Italian national television station RAI. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Italian football players of all time, and as one of the best players of his generation, due to his speed, work-rate, creativity, technical skills and eye for goal; he placed second in the 1971 Ballon d'Or. Having spent his entire 17 season career with Inter, he holds the honour of being a one-club man. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sandro Mazzola is the 126th most popular soccer player (up from 141st in 2019), the 943rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 940th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Sandro Mazzola is most famous for scoring the winning goal in the 1970 World Cup Final.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sandro Mazzola ranks 126 out of 21,273. Before him are Mohamed Salah, Kakuichi Mimura, José Nasazzi, César Luis Menotti, Colin Bell, and Dragan Džajić. After him are José Altafini, Andrés Escobar, Lucien Laurent, Jürgen Klinsmann, Berti Vogts, and Simone Inzaghi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Sandro Mazzola ranks 68. Before him are Walter Hill, Michael Bloomberg, Stanley B. Prusiner, Manuel Castells, Giacomo Agostini, and Jacob Zuma. After him are Arto Paasilinna, Neil Kinnock, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vladimír Mečiar, Tobin Bell, and Robert H. Grubbs.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sandro Mazzola ranks 943 out of 5,161. Before him are Gianna Nannini (1954), Salvator Rosa (1615), Theognis of Megara (-570), Errico Malatesta (1853), Michelozzo (1396), and Juliana of Nicomedia (285). After him are Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), Francesco Primaticcio (1504), Maximilian Sforza (1493), Clementia of Hungary (1293), Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus (-3), and Maurus Servius Honoratus (363).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Sandro Mazzola ranks 15. Before him are Gianni Rivera (1943), Giacinto Facchetti (1942), Franco Baresi (1960), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Fabio Cannavaro (1973), and Roberto Mancini (1964). After him are Simone Inzaghi (1976), Antonio Conte (1969), Alessandro Del Piero (1974), Luigi Riva (1944), Andrea Pirlo (1979), and Salvatore Schillaci (1964).

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