SOCCER PLAYER

N'Golo Kanté

1991 - Today

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N'Golo Kanté (born 29 March 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad and the France national team. Considered one of the best midfielders of his generation, he is known for his work rate and defensive acumen. Kanté made his senior professional debut with Boulogne in 2012, appearing as a substitute in one Ligue 2 match, and played an entire season in the third division the following year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of N'Golo Kanté has received more than 12,422,108 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). N'Golo Kanté is the 1,065th most popular soccer player (down from 764th in 2019), the 2,964th most popular biography from France (down from 2,664th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 12M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of N'Golo Kanté by language

Over the past year N'Golo Kanté has had the most page views in the with 1,376,500 views, followed by French (454,156), and Spanish (296,578). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (384.38%), Egyptian Arabic (101.32%), and Arabic (88.53%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, N'Golo Kanté ranks 1,065 out of 21,273. Before him are Manuel Bento, Jean-Jacques Marcel, Savo Milošević, Joan Segarra, Hamit Altıntop, and Dick Nanninga. After him are Tatsuya Shiji, Leopold Kielholz, José Antonio Reyes, Fernando Couto, Giovanni Lodetti, and Vladica Popović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, N'Golo Kanté ranks 7. Before him are Antoine Griezmann, Eden Hazard, Thiago Alcântara, James Rodríguez, Virgil van Dijk, and Ed Sheeran. After him are Riyad Mahrez, Kevin De Bruyne, Jorginho, Roberto Firmino, Lucas Vázquez, and Oriol Romeu.

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In France

Among people born in France, N'Golo Kanté ranks 2,964 out of 6,770. Before him are Alexandre Deschapelles (1780), Wilhelm Falley (1897), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Marc Seguin (1786), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), and Champfleury (1821). After him are René Lesson (1794), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Paul Émile Appell (1855), Jean Fernel (1497), André Salmon (1881), and Jacques Babinet (1794).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, N'Golo Kanté ranks 52. Before him are Bernard Chiarelli (1934), Jean Vincent (1930), Maryan Wisniewski (1937), Claude Le Roy (1948), Djibril Cissé (1981), and Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931). After him are István Nyers (1924), Manuel Amoros (1962), Jacques Santini (1952), Ludovic Giuly (1976), Didier Six (1954), and Riyad Mahrez (1991).

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