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Edinson Cavani

1987 - Today

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Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeðinsoŋ kaˈβani]; born 14 February 1987) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the Uruguay national team. Cavani began his career playing for Danubio in Montevideo, where he played for two years, before moving to Italian side Palermo in 2007. He spent four seasons at the club, scoring 34 goals in 109 league appearances. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edinson Cavani has received more than 7,215,065 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Edinson Cavani is the 399th most popular soccer player (down from 389th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 24th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

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  • 67.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 70

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Edinson Cavani ranks 399 out of 16,923. Before him are Marco Materazzi, Kinjiro Shimizu, Jan Koller, Luka Modrić, Elías Figueroa, and Seishiro Shimatani. After him are Pedro Rocha, Gyula Zsengellér, Thomas Tuchel, Kazimierz Deyna, Rüştü Reçber, and Dunga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Edinson Cavani ranks 5. Before him are Lionel Messi, Novak Djokovic, Karim Benzema, and Luis Suárez. After him are Sebastian Vettel, Maria Sharapova, Gonzalo Higuaín, Zac Efron, Arturo Vidal, Gerard Piqué, and Blake Lively.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Edinson Cavani ranks 22 out of 314. Before him are Enzo Francescoli (1961), Obdulio Varela (1917), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), Jules Laforgue (1860), and Luis Suárez (1987). After him are Pedro Rocha (1942), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Pablo Dorado (1908), Pedro Petrone (1905), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), and Roque Máspoli (1917).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Edinson Cavani ranks 14. Before him are José Santamaría (1929), Enzo Francescoli (1961), Obdulio Varela (1917), Enrique Ballestrero (1905), Diego Forlán (1979), and Luis Suárez (1987). After him are Pedro Rocha (1942), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Pablo Dorado (1908), Pedro Petrone (1905), Roque Máspoli (1917), and Santos Iriarte (1902).

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