SOCCER PLAYER

Ashley Cole

1980 - Today

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Ashley Cole (born 20 December 1980) is an English football coach and former player. As a player, he played as a left-back, most notably for Arsenal and Chelsea. Cole is considered by many critics and fellow professional players as one of the best defenders of his generation, one of the greatest English players of all time as well as one of the greatest left-backs in the history of the sport. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashley Cole has received more than 8,239,334 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Ashley Cole is the 1,682nd most popular soccer player (up from 1,763rd in 2019), the 2,612th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,982nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ashley Cole ranks 1,682 out of 21,273. Before him are Seydou Keita, Zé Sérgio, Nobuo Kawakami, Gary Neville, Silva Batuta, and Abel Balbo. After him are Josef Uridil, Marta, Giorgio Ferrini, Maniche, Víctor Muñoz, and Luka Peruzović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Ashley Cole ranks 45. Before him are Kim Tae-hee, Cristian Chivu, Sami Yusuf, Tomáš Rosický, Emre Belözoğlu, and Seydou Keita. After him are Robbie Keane, Jo Jung-suk, Nur Fettahoğlu, Kristen Bell, Diego Lugano, and Michelle Williams.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ashley Cole ranks 2,612 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Wright (1963), Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833), Gary Neville (1975), Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), and Henry Pottinger (1789). After him are George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), Austin Osman Spare (1886), Dominic West (1969), Thomas Arnold (1795), C. P. Snow (1905), and Bill Ivy (1942).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Ashley Cole ranks 76. Before him are Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), Bryan Robson (1957), Tom Finney (1922), Jack Greenwell (1884), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), and Gary Neville (1975). After him are Billy Meredith (1874), Steve Perryman (1951), Sam Allardyce (1954), Ian Wright (1963), Johnny Haynes (1934), and Ron Atkinson (1939).

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