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Benedikt Höwedes

1988 - Today

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Benedikt Höwedes (born 29 February 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent the majority of his playing career for Schalke 04, which he captained for six seasons, and represented the Germany national football team from 2011 to 2017. At international level, Höwedes won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, and was one of only three players to play every single minute of the tournament. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benedikt Höwedes has received more than 1,101,211 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Benedikt Höwedes is the 2,994th most popular soccer player (down from 2,701st in 2019), the 4,684th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,254th in 2019) and the 206th most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 47.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Benedikt Höwedes ranks 2,994 out of 21,273. Before him are Martin Ødegaard, Valdomiro, Florea Dumitrache, Stefan Schwarz, Óscar Cardozo, and Frank Mill. After him are Sebastian Giovinco, Joe Hart, Pedri, Henrik Larsen, Alain Geiger, and Paul Ince.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Benedikt Höwedes ranks 65. Before him are Nikola Kalinić, Shane Dawson, Anderson, Brenda Song, Jihadi John, and Anikka Albrite. After him are Haley Joel Osment, Gregory van der Wiel, Angelique Kerber, Maya Yoshida, Grimes, and Steven Nzonzi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Benedikt Höwedes ranks 4,684 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Schwab (1919), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), Rudolf Wagner (1805), Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1774), and Frank Mill (1958). After him are Otto Rühle (1874), Ingrid Auerswald (1957), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), Petra Felke (1959), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), and Hans Jakob (1908).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Benedikt Höwedes ranks 206. Before him are Hans Schwartz (1913), Wolfram Löwe (1945), Kevin Trapp (1990), Rüdiger Abramczik (1956), Hans-Jürgen Dörner (1951), and Frank Mill (1958). After him are Hans Jakob (1908), Norbert Nigbur (1948), Werner Krämer (1940), Alfred Kelbassa (1925), Niklas Süle (1995), and Dieter Burdenski (1950).

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