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Didier Drogba

1978 - Today

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Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (French pronunciation: ​[didje dʁɔɡba]; born 11 March 1978) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is best known for his career at Chelsea, for whom he has scored more goals than any other foreign player and is currently the club's fourth highest goal scorer of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Didier Drogba has received more than 10,812,856 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia. Didier Drogba is the 128th most popular soccer player (up from 260th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Ivorian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Didier Drogba ranks 128 out of 16,880. Before him are Cafu, Ko Arima, Kaká, Miroslav Klose, Robert Lewandowski, and Daniel Passarella. After him are Héctor Scarone, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Edwin van der Sar, Andrés Iniesta, Alessandro Del Piero, and Dragan Džajić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Didier Drogba ranks 6. Before him are Volodymyr Zelensky, Gianluigi Buffon, Kobe Bryant, Carles Puyol, and Miroslav Klose. After him are Michelle Rodriguez, Omar Sy, Charlene, Princess of Monaco, Rachel McAdams, Steve Chen, and Ashton Kutcher.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Didier Drogba ranks 2 out of 119. Before him are Alassane Ouattara (1942). After him are Félix Houphouët-Boigny (1905), Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Alpha Blondy (1953), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Yaya Touré (1983), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Robert Guéï (1941), Ahmadou Kourouma (1927), Kolo Touré (1981), and Salomon Kalou (1985).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among soccer players born in Côte d'Ivoire, Didier Drogba ranks 1. After him are Yaya Touré (1983), Kolo Touré (1981), Salomon Kalou (1985), Basile Boli (1967), Gervinho (1987), Laurent Pokou (1947), Seydou Doumbia (1987), Emmanuel Eboué (1983), Didier Zokora (1980), Ibrahim Touré (1985), and Wilfried Bony (1988).

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