SOCCER PLAYER

Ashley Young

1985 - Today

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Ashley Simon Young (born 9 July 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays as a full-back, wide midfielder or winger for Premier League club Everton. Young started his career as a winger at Watford and made his first senior appearance in 2003 under manager Ray Lewington. He became a first team regular in the 2004–05 season and was one of Watford's key players in their promotion-winning 2005–06 season. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ashley Young has received more than 5,801,341 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Ashley Young is the 3,112th most popular soccer player (down from 2,324th in 2019), the 3,758th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,434th in 2019) and the 129th most popular British Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ashley Youngs by language

Over the past year Ashley Young has had the most page views in the with 866,122 views, followed by Spanish (55,607), and Italian (55,231). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (251.20%), Simple English (158.87%), and Korean (142.33%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ashley Young ranks 3,112 out of 21,273. Before him are Adri van Male, Ferenc Sipos, Simón Lecue, Josef Zeman, Nicolás Burdisso, and Peter Lorimer. After him are Alberto Górriz, Manuel Jiménez Jiménez, Jozef Chovanec, Federico Vairo, Miklós Páncsics, and Ottavio Bugatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1985, Ashley Young ranks 74. Before him are Roman Reigns, Roberto Soldado, Casey Stoner, Laurent Koscielny, Doutzen Kroes, and Elçin Sangu. After him are Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Megan Rapinoe, Pablo Zabaleta, Talulah Riley, Tomáš Berdych, and Jessica Szohr.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ashley Young ranks 3,758 out of 8,785. Before him are Alex Salmond (1954), John Neville Keynes (1852), William Davenant (1606), Ed Skrein (1983), Edgar Wright (1974), and Peter Lorimer (1946). After him are Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), Herbert Marshall (1890), Victor d'Arcy (1887), Jim Bellamy (1881), and Rupert Friend (1981).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Ashley Young ranks 129. Before him are Phil Neal (1951), Eddie Colman (1936), Joe Hart (1987), Paul Ince (1967), Sid Kimpton (1887), and Peter Lorimer (1946). After him are Jim Bellamy (1881), Gordon Strachan (1957), Vivian Woodward (1879), Ernest Payne (1884), Ray Wilson (1934), and Ron Harris (1944).

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