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Gheorghe Popescu

1967 - Today

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Gheorghe "Gică" Popescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe ˈd͡ʒikə poˈpesku]; born 9 October 1967) is a Romanian former professional football player who played as a defender. He notably played in La Liga where he is a former captain of FC Barcelona. He played for a string of European clubs in that period, including a four-year stint at PSV Eindhoven and winning the UEFA Cup with Galatasaray. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gheorghe Popescu has received more than 514,221 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gheorghe Popescu is the 825th most popular soccer player (up from 923rd in 2019), the 180th most popular biography from Romania (down from 176th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Romanian Soccer Player.

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  • 510k

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  • 53.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gheorghe Popescu ranks 825 out of 16,880. Before him are Miguel Reina, Jerzy Dudek, Søren Lerby, Erling Braut Håland, Knut Nordahl, and Alexandre Pato. After him are Luis Artime, Sérgio Conceição, Rainer Bonhof, Francisco Bru, Nuno Gomes, and Víctor Rodríguez Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Gheorghe Popescu ranks 74. Before him are Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Tia Carrere, Gigi D'Agostino, Mamoru Hosoda, Chris Benoit, and Valérie Pécresse. After him are Özlem Türeci, Paul Giamatti, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naser Orić, Emil Kostadinov, and Aleksandar Đorđević.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Gheorghe Popescu ranks 180 out of 665. Before him are Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia (null), Tudor Arghezi (1880), Edward Luttwak (1942), Benjamin Fondane (1898), Lucian Mureșan (1931), and Barbu Știrbey (1872). After him are Brunó Ferenc Straub (1914), Michael II Apafi (1676), Júlia Várady (1941), Ferenc Dávid (1510), Liviu Rebreanu (1885), and Eva Mozes Kor (1934).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Romania

Among soccer players born in Romania, Gheorghe Popescu ranks 7. Before him are Mircea Lucescu (1945), Gheorghe Hagi (1965), Ștefan Kovács (1920), Anghel Iordănescu (1950), Emerich Jenei (1937), and László Bölöni (1953). After him are Elek Schwartz (1908), Dudu Georgescu (1950), Helmuth Duckadam (1959), István Avar (1905), Adrian Mutu (1979), and Alexander Vencel (1944).

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