SOCCER PLAYER

Davor Šuker

1968 - Today

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Davor Šuker (Croatian pronunciation: [dâʋoːr ʃǔker] ; born 1 January 1968) is a Croatian football administrator and former professional player who played as a striker. He served as the president of the Croatian Football Federation from 2012 to 2021. As Croatia's all-time top scorer with 45 goals, Šuker is generally regarded as the greatest Croatian striker of all time, and as one of the greatest strikers of all time.Šuker began his footballing career in his hometown for local first division team NK Osijek as a 16-year-old. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Davor Šuker has received more than 2,730,659 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Davor Šuker is the 161st most popular soccer player (up from 163rd in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Croatia (up from 38th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Croatian Soccer Player.

Davor Šuker is most famous for being the top scorer in the 1998 World Cup. He scored six goals in the tournament, including two against Brazil and one against France.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 61

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Davor Šukers by language

Over the past year Davor Šuker has had the most page views in the with 317,677 views, followed by Spanish (95,130), and Italian (54,333). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Quechua (58.57%), Korean (43.71%), and Egyptian Arabic (43.15%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Davor Šuker ranks 161 out of 21,273. Before him are Karim Benzema, Thierry Henry, Ademir de Menezes, Andrés Iniesta, Didier Drogba, and Héctor Scarone. After him are Dennis Bergkamp, Iker Casillas, Bobby Robson, Kevin Keegan, Laurent Blanc, and Oldřich Nejedlý.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Davor Šuker ranks 10. Before him are Paolo Maldini, Felipe VI of Spain, Daniel Craig, Didier Deschamps, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, and Hugh Jackman. After him are Marine Le Pen, Timothy McVeigh, Mika Häkkinen, Brendan Fraser, Susan Wojcicki, and Naomi Watts.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Davor Šuker ranks 30 out of 700. Before him are Rade Šerbedžija (1946), Joanna II of Naples (1373), Alida Valli (1921), Tomislav of Croatia (null), Dubravka Ugrešić (1949), and Miroslav Krleža (1893). After him are Omar Pasha (1806), Stjepan Radić (1871), Marko Marulić (1450), Franz von Suppé (1819), Margaret of Hungary (1242), and Stjepan Bobek (1923).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Croatia

Among soccer players born in Croatia, Davor Šuker ranks 2. Before him are Luka Modrić (1985). After him are Stjepan Bobek (1923), Dražan Jerković (1936), Josip Skoblar (1941), Vladimir Beara (1928), Zvonimir Boban (1968), Ilija Petković (1945), Branko Zebec (1929), Mario Mandžukić (1986), Slaven Bilić (1968), and Zlatko Čajkovski (1923).

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