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Diego Costa

1988 - Today

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Diego da Silva Costa (Spanish: [ˈdjeɣo ða ˈsilβa ˈkosta], Portuguese: [ˈdʒjeɡu dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈkɔstɐ]; born 7 October 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio. Costa began his football career in his native Brazil before joining Braga in Portugal in 2006, aged 17. He never played for the club but spent time on loan at Penafiel, and signed with Atlético Madrid the following year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diego Costa has received more than 10,377,584 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Diego Costa is the 926th most popular soccer player (down from 669th in 2019), the 215th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 166th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Brazilian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 10M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Diego Costas by language

Over the past year Diego Costa has had the most page views in the with 711,937 views, followed by Portuguese (534,382), and Spanish (209,178). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (262.38%), Portuguese (173.52%), and Wu Chinese (110.30%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Diego Costa ranks 926 out of 21,273. Before him are Ferruccio Valcareggi, Roberto Cherro, Salvador Sadurní, Patrick Battiston, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, and Nani. After him are Ugo Locatelli, Terry Venables, Domingos da Guia, Dino Baggio, Mauro Tassotti, and Hakim Ziyech.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Diego Costa ranks 17. Before him are Jérôme Boateng, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Ana de Armas, Derrick Rose, Sergio Busquets, and Rupert Grint. After him are Yann Sommer, Lizzo, Adele, Conchita Wurst, Natascha Kampusch, and Stephen Curry.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Diego Costa ranks 215 out of 2,236. Before him are Oreco (1932), Fernando Meirelles (1955), Felipe Massa (1981), Geraldo Alckmin (1952), Véra Clouzot (1913), and Jair da Costa (1940). After him are Romualdo Arppi Filho (1939), Domingos da Guia (1912), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), Elza Soares (1930), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Jair da Rosa Pinto (1921).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Brazil

Among soccer players born in Brazil, Diego Costa ranks 93. Before him are Djalminha (1970), Wilson da Silva Piazza (1943), David Luiz (1987), Anfilogino Guarisi (1905), Oreco (1932), and Jair da Costa (1940). After him are Domingos da Guia (1912), Jair da Rosa Pinto (1921), Tim (1915), Hulk (1986), César Sampaio (1968), and Giovane Élber (1972).

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