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Alex

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Alexsandro de Souza (born 14 September 1977), commonly known as Alex, is a Brazilian football manager, pundit and retired footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder. Alex is a former captain of the Brazil national team and Turkish club Fenerbahçe; throughout his career, he also played for Coritiba, Palmeiras, Flamengo and Cruzeiro in Brazil, and Parma in the Italian Serie A. Alex is most prominent for his time at Fenerbahçe where he become the highest-scoring foreign player of all time in the Süper Lig. Internationally, Alex earned 48 caps and scored 12 goals for Brazil from 1998 to 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex has received more than 836,028 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Alex is the 2,011th most popular soccer player (down from 1,951st in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 422nd in 2019) and the 204th most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 840k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alexes by language

Over the past year Alex has had the most page views in the with 303,387 views, followed by Portuguese (225,194), and English (103,841). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are French (558.72%), Turkish (291.50%), and Swedish (89.65%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Alex ranks 2,011 out of 21,273. Before him are Roque Júnior, Bror Mellberg, Francisco Buyo, Gabi, Tibor Nyilasi, and Alain Boghossian. After him are Sergio Romero, Masujiro Nishida, Steve Mandanda, Mohamed Al-Deayea, Teizo Takeuchi, and George Kobayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Alex ranks 70. Before him are Matt Bomer, Caterina Murino, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andreas Kaplan, Zachary Quinto, and Ronan Keating. After him are Annie Wersching, Hakan Yakin, Sofi Oksanen, Frédéric Kanouté, Manu Ginóbili, and Freddie Ljungberg.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Alex ranks 418 out of 2,236. Before him are Carlos Renato Frederico (1957), Júlio Prestes (1882), Dadá Maravilha (1946), Marcos Senna (1976), Luiz Gustavo (1987), and Roque Júnior (1976). After him are Euclides da Cunha (1866), George Kobayashi (1947), Paulo Autuori (1956), Rodolpho Barteczko (1910), Ana Maria Machado (1941), and Tarcísio Meira (1935).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Alex ranks 204. Before him are Mazinho Oliveira (1965), Carlos Renato Frederico (1957), Dadá Maravilha (1946), Marcos Senna (1976), Luiz Gustavo (1987), and Roque Júnior (1976). After him are George Kobayashi (1947), Paulo Autuori (1956), Rodolpho Barteczko (1910), Amílcar Barbuy (1893), Niginho (1912), and Abel Braga (1952).

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