SOCCER PLAYER

Islam Slimani

1988 - Today

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Islam Slimani (Arabic: إسلام سليماني; born 18 June 1988) is an Algerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Belgian Pro League club K.V. Mechelen and the Algeria national team. Slimani began his career in his homeland with JSM Chéraga and CR Belouizdad. In 2013, he moved to Europe, signing for Sporting CP. He played and scored regularly during his three seasons in Portugal, helping his team win the Taça de Portugal in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Islam Slimani has received more than 2,330,244 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Islam Slimani is the 2,401st most popular soccer player (up from 2,770th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 113th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Algerian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Islam Slimanis by language

Over the past year Islam Slimani has had the most page views in the with 233,243 views, followed by English (167,767), and Portuguese (140,359). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (931.14%), Southern Azerbaijani (240.00%), and Egyptian Arabic (190.89%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Islam Slimani ranks 2,401 out of 21,273. Before him are Ricardo Ferretti, Ante Rebić, Jack Grealish, Ikuo Takahara, Hatem Ben Arfa, and Jean Dockx. After him are Riccardo Montolivo, Luc Nilis, Rodolphe Hiden, Roberto Pruzzo, Valerio Bacigalupo, and Volodymyr Onyshchenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Islam Slimani ranks 54. Before him are Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Nicklas Bendtner, Rui Patrício, James Arthur, Javi Martínez, and Willian. After him are Sven Ulreich, Zoë Kravitz, Dušan Tadić, Juan Martín del Potro, Nikola Kalinić, and Shane Dawson.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Islam Slimani ranks 115 out of 213. Before him are Rachid Mekhloufi (1936), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1934), Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (1927), Kad Merad (1964), Mustapha Dahleb (1952), and Lounès Matoub (1956). After him are Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani (1927), Boughera El Ouafi (1898), Youcef Yousfi (1941), Belaid Abdessalam (1928), Abdelhamid Brahimi (1936), and Salima Ghezali (1958).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Algeria

Among soccer players born in Algeria, Islam Slimani ranks 9. Before him are Rabah Saâdane (1946), Alexandre Villaplane (1905), Djamel Zidane (1955), Rachid Mekhloufi (1936), Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (1927), and Mustapha Dahleb (1952). After him are Ali Bencheikh (1955), Salah Assad (1958), Christian Lopez (1953), Georges Lamia (1933), Joseph Gonzales (1907), and Mustapha Zitouni (1928).

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