SOCCER PLAYER

Andriy Shevchenko

1976 - Today

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Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Андрій Миколайович Шевченко, pronounced [ɐnˈd⁽ʲ⁾r⁽ʲ⁾ij mɪkoˈlɑjowɪtʃ ʃeu̯ˈtʃɛnko]; born 29 September 1976) is a Ukrainian former professional football player and manager. Shevchenko played as a striker for Dynamo Kyiv, AC Milan, Chelsea and the Ukraine national team. He was most recently head coach of Serie A club Genoa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andriy Shevchenko has received more than 6,684,954 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Andriy Shevchenko is the 104th most popular soccer player (down from 76th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 87th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Ukrainian Soccer Player.

Andriy Shevchenko is a Ukrainian footballer who is best known for being the all-time leading scorer for his country's national team.

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  • 64.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 76

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Andriy Shevchenko ranks 104 out of 21,273Before him are Helenio Herrera, José Altafini, Bert Trautmann, Kaká, Eric Cantona, and Nándor Hidegkuti. After him are Matthias Sindelar, Cafu, Zito, Vahid Halilhodžić, René Higuita, and Kunishige Kamamoto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Andriy Shevchenko ranks 5Before him are Ronaldo, Reese Witherspoon, Alexei Navalny, and Francesco Totti. After him are Cillian Murphy, Ramzan Kadyrov, Clarence Seedorf, Chester Bennington, Michael Ballack, Judit Polgár, and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Andriy Shevchenko ranks 98 out of 1,365Before him are Oleg Blokhin (1952), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), and Marie Bashkirtseff (1858). After him are Reinhold Glière (1874), Roman Shukhevych (1907), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), John Demjanjuk (1920), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), and Karol Szymanowski (1882).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among soccer players born in Ukraine, Andriy Shevchenko ranks 2Before him are Oleg Blokhin (1952). After him are Igor Belanov (1960), Géza Kalocsay (1913), Oleh Protasov (1964), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963), Mykhaylo Fomenko (1948), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Serhiy Rebrov (1974), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), and Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959).