SOCCER PLAYER

Alessandro Costacurta

1966 - Today

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Alessandro Costacurta (born 24 April 1966) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Throughout his club career, Costacurta spent over twenty years with AC Milan between 1986 and 2007, as well as a brief season-long spell on loan at Monza. He is best known for his role alongside Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini, and Mauro Tassotti, forming one of the greatest defences in Serie A and European football during the late 1980s and 1990s, under the success of managers Arrigo Sacchi and Fabio Capello. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alessandro Costacurta has received more than 1,002,168 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Alessandro Costacurta is the 224th most popular soccer player (up from 483rd in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,831st in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alessandro Costacurtas by language

Over the past year Alessandro Costacurta has had the most page views in the with 181,277 views, followed by English (157,529), and Spanish (45,638). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (292.14%), Egyptian Arabic (261.51%), and Simple English (207.06%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alessandro Costacurta ranks 224 out of 21,273. Before him are Franck Ribéry, Dunga, Philippe Troussier, Josip Skoblar, Radomir Antić, and Wolfgang Overath. After him are Rui Costa, Zbigniew Boniek, Dani Alves, Gaetano Scirea, Luís Figo, and Marcel Desailly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Alessandro Costacurta ranks 18. Before him are Eric Cantona, René Higuita, Vincent Cassel, Halle Berry, Mikhail Mishustin, and David Cameron. After him are Zoran Milanović, Robin Wright, David Schwimmer, Kentaro Miura, Julen Lopetegui, and Luke Perry.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alessandro Costacurta ranks 1,225 out of 5,161. Before him are Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (340), Gioseffo Zarlino (1517), Giambattista Pittoni (1687), Peter of Verona (1206), Lawrence of Brindisi (1559), and Felice Beato (1832). After him are Gianna Nannini (1954), Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan (1470), Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313), Mario Capecchi (1937), Marisa Pavan (1932), and Gaetano Scirea (1953).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Alessandro Costacurta ranks 24. Before him are Gianluca Vialli (1964), Vittorio Pozzo (1886), Andrea Pirlo (1979), Antonio Conte (1969), Giampiero Boniperti (1928), and Gino Colaussi (1914). After him are Gaetano Scirea (1953), Lorenzo Buffon (1929), Alessandro Nesta (1976), Angelo Schiavio (1905), Gennaro Gattuso (1978), and Salvatore Schillaci (1964).

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