SOCCER PLAYER

Gary Medel

1987 - Today

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Gary Alexis Medel Soto (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈɡaɾi meˈðel]; born 3 August 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Chilean Primera División club Universidad Católica as a centre-back and a defensive midfielder. Medel has played club football with several teams in numerous countries, starting out with Chilean side Universidad Católica, and later playing for Argentine side Boca Juniors, Spanish side Sevilla, Premier League side Cardiff City, and Italian side Inter Milan, before moving to Beşiktaş in Turkey in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Medel has received more than 1,620,140 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Gary Medel is the 2,418th most popular soccer player (up from 3,007th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Chile (up from 128th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Chilean Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gary Medel ranks 2,418 out of 21,273Before him are Giuliano Sarti, Achraf Hakimi, Cacau, Piero Pasinati, Sebastiano Rossi, and Dejan Lovren. After him are Martí Ventolrà, Erich Srbek, Emre Can, José Parra Martínez, Manga, and Stephan Beckenbauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Gary Medel ranks 52Before him are Hilary Duff, Jan Vertonghen, Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Noboa, Ana Ivanovic, and Hatem Ben Arfa. After him are Ramires, Kerem Bürsin, Eder, Luiz Adriano, Kagney Linn Karter, and Jorge Lorenzo.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Gary Medel ranks 88 out of 321Before him are Diego Portales (1793), Domingo Santa María (1825), Sergio Livingstone (1920), José Joaquín Pérez (1801), Juan Antonio Ríos (1888), and Jorge Edwards (1931). After him are Eliseo Salazar (1954), Lucho Gatica (1928), César Espinoza (1900), Juan Luis Sanfuentes (1858), Marcelo Ríos (1975), and George Robledo (1926).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Chile

Among soccer players born in Chile, Gary Medel ranks 16Before him are Claudio Bravo (1983), Fernando Riera (1920), Carlos Vidal (1902), Carlos Caszely (1950), David Arellano (1902), and Sergio Livingstone (1920). After him are César Espinoza (1900), George Robledo (1926), Víctor Morales (1905), Arturo Torres Carrasco (1906), Jaime Ramírez (1931), and Ulises Poirier (1897).