SOCCER PLAYER

Cheikhou Kouyaté

1989 - Today

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Cheikhou Kouyaté (born 21 December 1989) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Senegal national team. Kouyaté moved from Senegal to Belgium in 2006, having been offered a youth contract at RWDM Brussels. He played ten games before moving to Anderlecht aged 19, where he made 206 appearances and won the Belgian First Division A four times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cheikhou Kouyaté has received more than 1,155,992 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Cheikhou Kouyaté is the 8,460th most popular soccer player (down from 5,589th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Senegal (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Senegalese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Cheikhou Kouyaté by language

Over the past year Cheikhou Kouyaté has had the most page views in the with 119,010 views, followed by French (25,166), and Italian (6,029). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (52.17%), Hausa (30.52%), and Hebrew (13.97%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 8,460 out of 21,273. Before him are Pedro Barbosa, Dean Saunders, Joe Gomez, Joey Didulica, Zoltan Sabo, and Christopher Katongo. After him are Angelo Palombo, Shinji Kobayashi, Gustavo Méndez, David Raum, Jorge Borelli, and Sidnei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 323. Before him are Sterling Knight, Anna Veith, Stefan Bradl, Kim So-eun, Andrew Luck, and Kara Mbodji. After him are Sidnei, Stefan Ilsanker, Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Alves, Ben Sahar, Yasemin Allen, and Kensho Ono.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 64 out of 138. Before him are Khady Sylla (1963), Ismaïla Sarr (1998), Lamine Diatta (1975), Mame Biram Diouf (1987), Kara Mbodji (1989), and Rama Yade (1976). After him are Alfred Gomis (1993), Omar Daf (1977), Nicolas Jackson (2001), Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1990), Moussa Wagué (1998), and Souleymane Diawara (1978).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Senegal

Among soccer players born in Senegal, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 26. Before him are Ferdinand Coly (1973), Papiss Cissé (1985), Ismaïla Sarr (1998), Lamine Diatta (1975), Mame Biram Diouf (1987), and Kara Mbodji (1989). After him are Alfred Gomis (1993), Omar Daf (1977), Nicolas Jackson (2001), Moussa Wagué (1998), Souleymane Diawara (1978), and Salif Diao (1977).

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