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Garrincha dos Santos against the field

13 categories, one sample: Garrincha dos Santos against 199 of the most recognizable footballers in DailyFoot's data. Every card shows the whole field's distribution with Garrincha dos Santos pinned inside it.

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0.340goals per cap
50Caps
17Goals
13Categories ranked
International years1955–1966 (12)
PositionForward
Notable clubs7
Major trophies2
Born1933

Every ranking here is drawn from the same sample: DailyFoot's 199 most recognizable footballers, using the caps, goals, career years and honours in the game's own data.

Scoring rates

Goals measured against appearances, seasons and the era the player scored them in.

01 · Scoring

Garrincha dos Santos: Goals per cap

International goals divided by international appearances. The purest scoring rate this data can support, and the number pundits mean by "goals-per-game ratio". Players under 20 caps are left out: a ratio over a handful of matches ranks first and means nothing.

0.340 goals per cap Top 35% #70 of 198 · sample median 0.243
0.243 Garrincha dos Santos 0.340 0.000 1.097
  1. #69Thomas Müller0.344
  2. #70Ronaldinho Gaúcho0.340
  3. #70Garrincha dos Santos0.340
  4. #72Henrikh Mkhitaryan0.337
  5. #73Kevin Keegan0.333
02 · Scoring

Garrincha dos Santos: Caps per goal

How many international appearances the player needed for each goal they scored. The same fact as goals per cap, read the way a scouting note phrases it: lower is more lethal.

2.94 caps per goal Lowest 39% #70 of 180 · sample median 3.88
3.88 Garrincha dos Santos 2.94 0.91 76.00
  1. #69Thomas Müller2.91
  2. #70Ronaldinho Gaúcho2.94
  3. #70Garrincha dos Santos2.94
  4. #72Henrikh Mkhitaryan2.97
  5. #73Kevin Keegan3.00
03 · Scoring

Garrincha dos Santos: Goals per international season

International goals spread across the years between a first and last cap. It rewards scoring a lot in a short window, which a per-cap rate hides: two players on the same ratio can be ten years apart in how fast they got there.

1.42 goals per season Bottom 46% #108 of 198 · sample median 1.68
1.68 Garrincha dos Santos 1.42 0.00 7.56
  1. #107Raheem Sterling1.54
  2. #108Arda Turan1.42
  3. #108Garrincha dos Santos1.42
  4. #110Steven Gerrard1.40
  5. #111Luka Modrić1.38
04 · Scoring

Garrincha dos Santos: Era-adjusted goal rate

Goals per cap divided by the average goals per cap of everyone in this sample who debuted in the same decade. 1.00 is exactly average for the era, 2.00 is twice as prolific as the players they actually played against. Scoring rates fell as the game professionalised, so this is the fairest way to put a 1950s forward next to a modern one.

0.73 × their era's average Bottom 41% #117 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Garrincha dos Santos 0.73 0.00 3.67
  1. #115Kevin Keegan0.75
  2. #115Ashley Young0.75
  3. #117Garrincha dos Santos0.73
  4. #118Carlos Tévez0.71
  5. #118Ousmane Dembélé0.71

Career shape

When the career started, how long it ran, and how densely it was played.

07 · Longevity

Garrincha dos Santos: Caps per season

Appearances divided by the seasons between a first and last cap: how relentlessly a player was picked while they were in the squad, rather than how long they lasted. Fixture calendars grew over the decades, so the leaders here are almost all modern.

4.17 caps per season Bottom 7% #184 of 198 · sample median 7.50
7.50 Garrincha dos Santos 4.17 2.00 10.60
  1. #182Dani Carvajal4.42
  2. #183Emmanuel Adebayor4.35
  3. #184Garrincha dos Santos4.17
  4. #184George Weah4.17
  5. #186Johan Cruyff4.00
10 · Longevity

Garrincha dos Santos: Age at final cap

Age in the year of a last senior cap. Measured in whole years, so a player capped either side of a birthday can sit a year either way.

33 years old Top 45% #91 of 199 · sample median 33
33 Garrincha dos Santos 33 19 42
  1. #91Dani Carvajal33
  2. #91Gareth Bale33
  3. #91Garrincha dos Santos33
  4. #91Harry Kane33
  5. #91Hristo Stoichkov33

Silverware and recognition

Trophies won, trophies per appearance, and how widely the player is written about.

11 · Silverware and fame

Garrincha dos Santos: Major trophies

World Cups, continental titles, Nations Leagues, Olympic golds and European Cups/Champions Leagues added together. Domestic leagues and cups are not in this data, so this counts the honours the game itself asks about, not a full trophy cabinet.

2 trophies Top 26% #53 of 199 · sample median 1
1 Garrincha dos Santos 2 0 8
  1. #53Daniel Alves2
  2. #53Diogo Jota2
  3. #53Garrincha dos Santos2
  4. #53Hugo Lloris2
  5. #53James Rodríguez2
12 · Silverware and fame

Garrincha dos Santos: Trophies per 100 caps

Major trophies scaled to a hundred appearances: silverware rate rather than silverware total, which stops a long career from automatically outranking a decorated short one.

4.00 per 100 caps Top 16% #33 of 198 · sample median 1.53
1.53 Garrincha dos Santos 4.00 0.00 25.00
  1. #31Rivaldo Ferreira4.05
  2. #32Lionel Messi4.02
  3. #33Garrincha dos Santos4.00
  4. #34Paolo Maldini3.97
  5. #35Jérôme Boateng3.95
13 · Silverware and fame

Garrincha dos Santos: Wikipedia languages per cap

How many Wikipedia language editions cover the player, divided by their caps. A rough measure of fame earned per appearance: high means the world knows them for something other than turning up a lot.

1.58 languages per cap Top 12% #24 of 198 · sample median 0.89
0.89 Garrincha dos Santos 1.58 0.43 3.70
  1. #22Marco Reus1.60
  2. #23Marc-André ter Stegen1.59
  3. #24Garrincha dos Santos1.58
  4. #25Marco van Basten1.52
  5. #26Vinícius Júnior1.50

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