SOCCER PLAYER

Abby Wambach

1980 - Today

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Mary Abigail Wambach (born June 2, 1980) is an American retired soccer player, coach, and member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. A six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award, Wambach was a regular on the U.S. women's national soccer team from 2003 to 2015, earning her first cap in 2001. As a forward, she currently stands as the highest all-time goal scorer for the national team and is second in international goals for both female and male soccer players with 184 goals, behind Canadian Christine Sinclair. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abby Wambach has received more than 6,200,878 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Abby Wambach is the 7,373rd most popular soccer player (up from 8,271st in 2019), the 13,539th most popular biography from United States (up from 14,535th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Abby Wambaches by language

Over the past year Abby Wambach has had the most page views in the with 454,842 views, followed by Japanese (25,740), and German (18,399). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (104.11%), Latvian (104.02%), and Simple English (103.70%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Abby Wambach ranks 7,373 out of 21,273. Before her are Denilson Martins Nascimento, Nikola Jerkan, Ramona Bachmann, David Johnson, Carlos Humberto Paredes, and Jan Versleijen. After her are Toshihiro Hattori, Gaku Shibasaki, Mitar Mrkela, Ángel Pedraza, Juan Carlos, and Ismaël Bangoura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Abby Wambach ranks 350. Before her are Satoshi Ohno, Hamzah bin Hussein, Vanessa Carlton, Nina Zilli, Anna Semenovich, and Luciano Galletti. After her are Cristiana Capotondi, Youssouf Hadji, Chrissy Metz, Joey Yung, Jonathan Woodgate, and Juliana Pasha.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abby Wambach ranks 13,539 out of 20,380. Before her are Sidney Drell (1926), Troy Davis (1968), Guy Clark (1941), Eugenie Clark (1922), Paul Herman (1946), and Mark Aguirre (1959). After her are Jack Webb (1920), Julianne Phillips (1960), Jim Fuchs (1927), Paine Wingate (1739), Bill Toomey (1939), and Zoe Perry (1983).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United States

Among soccer players born in United States, Abby Wambach ranks 47. Before her are Folarin Balogun (2001), Steve Cherundolo (1979), Jonathan David (2000), Weston McKennie (1998), Chris Henderson (1970), and Jimmy Douglas (1898). After her are Zion Suzuki (2002), Dan Calichman (1968), Gōtoku Sakai (1991), Brian McBride (1972), Carli Lloyd (1982), and Paul Caligiuri (1964).

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