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Bwanga Tshimen

1949 - Today

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Raymond Bwanga Tshimenu (born 4 January 1949 in Élisabethville, Belgian Congo) is a former footballer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bwanga won the 1973 African Footballer of the Year while with TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi. During his playing days in the early and mid 1970s he was nicknamed "Black Beckenbauer" by the African and French press due to his playing style.Bwanga was voted the IFFHS Player of the Century for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bwanga Tshimen has received more than 31,336 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bwanga Tshimen is the 5,573rd most popular soccer player (down from 4,095th in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from Democratic Republic of the Congo (down from 31st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Congolese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 31k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bwanga Tshimen by language

Over the past year Bwanga Tshimen has had the most page views in the with 4,387 views, followed by Italian (1,213), and Arabic (869). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kinyarwanda (659.38%), Persian (183.12%), and Hungarian (58.26%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Bwanga Tshimen ranks 5,573 out of 21,273. Before him are Mario Hermoso, Nino Bule, Elías Muñoz, José González Ganoza, Benoît Costil, and Mustapha Kouici. After him are Eugenio Morel, Sergey Gotsmanov, Johan Walem, Yuji Sugano, Miguel Herrera, and Anthimos Kapsis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Bwanga Tshimen ranks 649. Before him are Jean Kalala N'Tumba, Thomas Bopp, Pat Rice, Aleksandr Salnikov, Paul Shaffer, and Warwick Brown. After him are John Curry, Toller Cranston, Atanas Mihaylov, Walter Corbo, Adrian Alston, and Ayşe Erzan.

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In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bwanga Tshimen ranks 44 out of 107. Before him are Maître Gims (1986), Kibonge Mafu (1945), Cécile Kyenge (1964), Blaise Nkufo (1975), Mbo Mpenza (1976), and Jean Kalala N'Tumba (1949). After him are Adolphe Muzito (1957), Jirès Kembo Ekoko (1988), Kabasu Babo (1950), Dieumerci Mbokani (1985), Bruno Tshibala (1956), and Mayanga Maku (1948).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among soccer players born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bwanga Tshimen ranks 16. Before him are Kakoko Etepé (1950), Tubilandu Ndimbi (1948), Kibonge Mafu (1945), Blaise Nkufo (1975), Mbo Mpenza (1976), and Jean Kalala N'Tumba (1949). After him are Jirès Kembo Ekoko (1988), Kabasu Babo (1950), Dieumerci Mbokani (1985), Mayanga Maku (1948), Anthony Vanden Borre (1987), and Christian Benteke (1990).

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