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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 1,161,670 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Cheikhou Kouyaté is the 5,590th most popular soccer player (up from 6,808th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Senegal (up from 48th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Senegalese Soccer Player.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 5,590 out of 16,880. Before him are Atiba Hutchinson, Manuel Akanji, Javi Moreno, Lucas Alario, Federico Marchetti, and Neil Young. After him are Zeca, Ken Armstrong, Faouzi Ghoulam, Francesco Antonioli, Philippe Vande Walle, and Yoko Takahagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 188. Before him are Vitolo, Blake Griffin, G-Eazy, Eldar Gasimov, Daesung, and Gabriela Koukalová. After him are Jung Yong-hwa, Jeremy Sumpter, Sergei Polunin, Brendon Hartley, Alfreð Finnbogason, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 43 out of 114. Before him are Marie Senghor Basse (1930), Aminata Touré (1962), Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré (1951), Papiss Cissé (1985), Amadou Dia Ba (1958), and Aïssa Maïga (1975). After him are Tony Sylva (1975), Fatou Diome (1968), Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye (1958), Ferdinand Coly (1973), Dame N'Doye (1985), and Mame Biram Diouf (1987).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Senegal

Among soccer players born in Senegal, Cheikhou Kouyaté ranks 15. Before him are Ibrahim Ba (1973), Henri Camara (1977), Mamadou Niang (1979), Khalilou Fadiga (1974), Ali Dia (1965), and Papiss Cissé (1985). After him are Tony Sylva (1975), Ferdinand Coly (1973), Dame N'Doye (1985), Mame Biram Diouf (1987), Amara Traoré (1965), and Lamine Diatta (1975).

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