SOCCER PLAYER

Alan Hansen

1955 - Today

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Alan David Hansen (born 13 June 1955) is a Scottish former footballer and BBC television football pundit. Regarded as one of the greatest defenders of all time, he played as a central defender for Partick Thistle, for the successful Liverpool team of the late 1970s and 1980s, and for the Scotland national team. As a football pundit, Hansen became known for his outspoken views, particularly on teams' defensive performances, frequently criticising what he believed was "diabolical" or "shocking" defending. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Hansen has received more than 1,429,114 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Alan Hansen is the 5,119th most popular soccer player (up from 5,208th in 2019), the 5,024th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,253rd in 2019) and the 238th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alan Hansens by language

Over the past year Alan Hansen has had the most page views in the with 169,014 views, followed by Italian (4,591), and German (3,572). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (730.86%), Hungarian (328.23%), and Romanian (94.46%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alan Hansen ranks 5,119 out of 21,273. Before him are Jan Urban, Francisco Uría, Masahiro Fukuda, Ramón Calderé, Yasser Al-Qahtani, and Fabrizio Miccoli. After him are Boško Balaban, Pablo Gabriel García, Jimmy Murray, Jean-Marc Ferreri, Matthias Ginter, and Giuseppe Sabadini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Alan Hansen ranks 463. Before him are Jack Lew, Eddie Jobson, Armin Rohde, Smita Patil, Sam Bottoms, and Julio Llamazares. After him are John O. Brennan, Patricia Barber, Joanna Hoffman, Rita Verdonk, Ewine van Dishoeck, and Jean-Luc Vandenbroucke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Hansen ranks 5,024 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne Dudley (1956), Wendy Barrie (1912), Peter Lord (1953), Samuel Plimsoll (1824), Peter Cook (1937), and Gertrude Lawrence (1898). After him are Jimmy Murray (1933), Valerie Hobson (1917), Harry Ryan (1893), Davey Boy Smith (1962), Tulisa (1988), and Arthur Scargill (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Alan Hansen ranks 238. Before him are Terry Paine (1939), Jimmy Murphy (1910), Claude Buckenham (1876), Daniel Sturridge (1989), Gil Merrick (1922), and Steve Archibald (1956). After him are Jimmy Murray (1933), Neville Southall (1958), James Jones (1873), Pat Crerand (1939), John Connelly (1938), and Noni Madueke (2002).

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