SOCCER PLAYER

Eiður Guðjohnsen

1978 - Today

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Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen (transliterated as Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen; born 15 September 1978) is an Icelandic professional football coach and former player who played as a forward. Eiður saw his greatest success in England and Spain with Chelsea and Barcelona respectively, where he won the UEFA Champions League and La Liga with the latter and the League Cup and Premiership twice with the former. Along with two spells at Bolton Wanderers fourteen years apart, he also played in Iceland, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Belgium, China, Norway and India in a club career lasting 23 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiður Guðjohnsen has received more than 3,017,361 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Eiður Guðjohnsen is the 1,846th most popular soccer player (down from 1,294th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Iceland (down from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 1,846 out of 21,273. Before him are Gottfried Fuchs, Carvalho Leite, Shizuo Miyama, Jacques Simon, Graeme Souness, and Guillermo Escalada. After him are Rubén Baraja, Marcos Alonso, Ado, Don Revie, Aldo Donati, and Zinho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 57. Before him are Laetitia Casta, Homare Sawa, Lauren German, Amal Clooney, Gwendoline Christie, and Steve Chen. After him are Jelena Karleuša, Danai Gurira, Ayumi Hamasaki, Tyrese Gibson, Tom Ellis, and Lee Ji-ah.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 43 out of 190. Before him are Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval (1885), Friðrik Ólafsson (1935), Sturla Þórðarson (1214), Gunnar Hansen (1947), Jón Ögmundsson (1052), and Hannes Hafstein (1861). After him are Baltasar Kormákur (1966), Ólafur Thors (1892), Gunnar Thoroddsen (1910), Jón Leifs (1899), Geir Hallgrímsson (1925), and Saint Thorlak (1133).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Iceland

Among soccer players born in Iceland, Eiður Guðjohnsen ranks 1. After him are Ásgeir Sigurvinsson (1955), Arnór Guðjohnsen (1961), Alfreð Finnbogason (1989), Atli Eðvaldsson (1957), Gylfi Sigurðsson (1989), Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (1990), Heimir Hallgrímsson (1967), Hannes Þór Halldórsson (1984), Ragnar Sigurðsson (1986), Birkir Bjarnason (1988), and Birkir Már Sævarsson (1984).

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