SOCCER PLAYER

Gaël Kakuta

1991 - Today

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Gaël Romeo Kakuta Mambenga (born 21 June 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal. Born in France, he represents the DR Congo national team. A youth product of RC Lens, Kakuta moved to Chelsea in 2007 in a controversial transfer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gaël Kakuta has received more than 1,124,651 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Gaël Kakuta is the 6,015th most popular soccer player (down from 5,973rd in 2019), the 5,267th most popular biography from France (down from 4,985th in 2019) and the 315th most popular French Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gaël Kakuta ranks 6,015 out of 21,273. Before him are Sergei Gorlukovich, Fran García, Laurențiu Reghecampf, Nobuyuki Kojima, Jean-Philippe Durand, and Milton Cruz. After him are Alexander Wood, Michael Schjønberg, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Arnie Oliver, Alessandro Diamanti, and Oleg Kopayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, Gaël Kakuta ranks 120. Before him are Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Choi Tae-joon, Genki Haraguchi, Aleksandr Kokorin, Admir Mehmedi, and Paul Dummett. After him are Burak Deniz, Federico Macheda, Aleksandar Dragović, Jorge Blanco, Cenk Tosun, and Wahbi Khazri.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gaël Kakuta ranks 5,267 out of 6,770. Before him are Christophe Barratier (1963), Guillaume Gallienne (1972), Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon (1986), Laurent Binet (1972), Nathalie Becquart (1969), and Jean-Philippe Durand (1960). After him are Claude Onesta (1957), Alain Guiraudie (1964), Morgan Schneiderlin (1989), Thomas Pesquet (1978), Philippe Boisse (1955), and DJ Snake (1986).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, Gaël Kakuta ranks 315. Before him are Moussa Dembélé (1996), Corinne Diacre (1974), Corentin Martins (1969), Jean Taillandier (1938), Anthony Lopes (1990), and Jean-Philippe Durand (1960). After him are Morgan Schneiderlin (1989), Michel Bibard (1958), Alain Roche (1967), Houssine Kharja (1982), Noureddine Kourichi (1954), and Philippe Christanval (1978).

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