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David Platt

1966 - Today

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David Andrew Platt (born 10 June 1966) is an English retired football coach and player who played as a midfielder. Born in Chadderton, Lancashire, Platt began his career as an apprentice at Manchester United before moving to Crewe Alexandra, where he began building a reputation as a goal-scoring midfielder. At the age of 22, he signed for Aston Villa and gained the attention of the England manager Bobby Robson, with whom he soon made his debut. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Platt has received more than 222,881 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). David Platt is the 4,014th most popular soccer player (up from 4,214th in 2019), the 4,577th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,523rd in 2019) and the 198th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, David Platt ranks 4,014 out of 16,880. Before him are Emerson Palmieri, Andrej Kramarić, Eduardo Reyes Ortiz, Moise Kean, Ali Al-Habsi, and Viktor Matviyenko. After him are Luigi De Canio, Shmuel Rosenthal, Rúben Dias, Abdul Kader Keïta, Chanathip Songkrasin, and Tim Wiese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, David Platt ranks 303. Before him are Merav Michaeli, Andrey Lugovoy, Niklas Zennström, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Les Ferdinand, and Yıldız Tilbe. After him are Lucía Etxebarría, Jiří Němec, Albert Pahimi Padacké, Marco Borsato, Aigars Kalvītis, and Alessio Boni.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Platt ranks 4,577 out of 7,765. Before him are Gordon Thomas (1921), William Duesbury (1725), Carmen Ejogo (1973), Malcolm Gladwell (1963), Dave Hill (1946), and Neil Innes (1944). After him are Teddy Sinclair (1986), Dennis Taylor (1949), Lily Allen (1985), John Castle (1940), Douglas Hurd (1930), and Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, David Platt ranks 198. Before him are Chris Smalling (1989), Cliff Bastin (1912), Alan Smith (1980), George Moorhouse (1901), Tammy Abraham (1997), and Les Ferdinand (1966). After him are Dele Alli (1996), Alex Stepney (1942), Mason Mount (1999), Laurie Cunningham (1956), Adam Lallana (1988), and Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998).

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