SOCCER PLAYER

Gianfranco Zola

1966 - Today

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Gianfranco Zola (Italian pronunciation: [dʒaɱˈfraŋko dˈdzɔːla]; born 5 July 1966) is an Italian football manager and former footballer who played predominantly as a forward. He is currently in charge as vice-president of the Lega Pro, the Italian Serie C football league.He spent the first decade of his playing career playing in Italy, most notably with Napoli, alongside Diego Maradona and Careca, where he was able to win the Serie A title, and at Parma, where he won the Italian Super Cup and the UEFA Cup. He later moved to English side Chelsea, where he was voted the Football Writers' Player of the Year in the 1996–97 season. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gianfranco Zola has received more than 3,151,574 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Gianfranco Zola is the 412th most popular soccer player (down from 389th in 2019), the 1,610th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,695th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Italian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gianfranco Zolas by language

Over the past year Gianfranco Zola has had the most page views in the with 412,987 views, followed by Italian (265,088), and Spanish (52,093). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (192.76%), Egyptian Arabic (166.45%), and Korean (135.73%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gianfranco Zola ranks 412 out of 21,273. Before him are Eden Hazard, Gyula Zsengellér, Petar Zhekov, Branko Oblak, Yoshimatsu Oyama, and Carlos Bianchi. After him are Pablo Dorado, Saizo Saito, Steven Gerrard, Patrick Kluivert, Preben Elkjær, and Seishiro Shimatani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Gianfranco Zola ranks 33. Before him are Sinéad O'Connor, Janet Jackson, Billy Zane, Zack Snyder, Dean Cain, and Kiefer Sutherland. After him are Emmanuelle Seigner, Yoshihiro Togashi, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Dejan Savićević, and Jan Železný.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 1,610 out of 5,161. Before him are Silvia Federici (1942), Michele Alboreto (1956), Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici (1421), Ornella Vanoni (1934), Francesco del Cossa (1436), and Pope Pontian (200). After him are Giovanni Battista Bassani (1650), Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano (1770), Antonio Cesti (1623), Bernardino Telesio (1509), Claudio Merulo (1533), and Francesco Gasparini (1668).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Gianfranco Zola ranks 38. Before him are Giovanni Ferrari (1907), Gianpiero Combi (1902), Marco Materazzi (1973), Simone Inzaghi (1976), Mario Balotelli (1990), and Giuseppe Bergomi (1963). After him are Thiago Alcântara (1991), Daniele Massaro (1961), Nereo Rocco (1912), Gianluca Zambrotta (1977), Walter Mazzarri (1961), and Vincenzo Montella (1974).

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