SOCCER PLAYER

Manuel Akanji

1995 - Today

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Manuel Obafemi Akanji (born 19 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or full-back for Premier League club Manchester City and the Switzerland national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Akanji has received more than 2,356,653 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Manuel Akanji is the 4,523rd most popular soccer player (up from 5,584th in 2019), the 610th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 634th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Manuel Akanjis by language

Over the past year Manuel Akanji has had the most page views in the with 583,999 views, followed by Spanish (93,760), and German (81,437). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Danish (168.65%), Simple English (164.72%), and Southern Azerbaijani (143.13%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Manuel Akanji ranks 4,523 out of 21,273. Before him are Thomas Mavros, Luciano Vietto, Casiano Delvalle, Justin Fashanu, Marcelinho Paraíba, and Christian Corrêa Dionisio. After him are Georges Carnus, Masaaki Kato, Ramón Quiroga, Enrique Hormazábal, Dragutin Najdanović, and Sergio Rico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1995, Manuel Akanji ranks 40. Before him are Anthony Martial, Nayeon, Ángel Correa, Nathan Aké, Giovanni Simeone, and Munir El Haddadi. After him are Divock Origi, Otávio Edmilson da Silva Monteiro, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Krzysztof Piątek, Clément Lenglet, and Héctor Bellerín.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Manuel Akanji ranks 610 out of 1,015. Before him are Urs Meier (1959), Urs Bühler (1971), Heini Walter (1927), Georges Bregy (1958), Emmanuel Pahud (1970), and Georges Trombert (1874). After him are Bruno Manser (1954), Erika Hess (1962), Willy Kernen (1929), Paul Niggli (1888), Didier Cuche (1974), and Lukas Ammann (1912).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Manuel Akanji ranks 51. Before him are Diego Benaglio (1983), Haris Seferović (1992), Werner Leimgruber (1934), Hans Pulver (1902), Georges Stuber (1925), and Georges Bregy (1958). After him are Willy Kernen (1929), Tranquillo Barnetta (1985), Claudio Sulser (1955), Walter Weiler (1903), Alain Sutter (1968), and Gökhan Inler (1984).

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