SOCCER PLAYER

Hakan Yakin

1977 - Today

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Hakan Yakin (Turkish: Hakan Yakın; born 22 February 1977) is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Swiss Challenge League side FC Schaffhausen. He spent the majority of his playing career as a forward or attacking midfielder in the Swiss top flight with brief forays abroad (in France, Germany, Turkey and Qatar). He represented Switzerland national team for eleven years, garnering 87 caps and scoring 20 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hakan Yakin has received more than 463,276 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Hakan Yakin is the 2,119th most popular soccer player (down from 1,497th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 371st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hakan Yakin ranks 2,119 out of 21,273. Before him are Pat Jennings, Ricardo Gomes, Heinz Stuy, Jimmy Johnstone, Javier Pastore, and Waldemar Victorino. After him are José Callejón, Aleksandr Mostovoi, Paulo Sérgio, Sergej Milinković-Savić, Gösta Dunker, and Ragnar Gustavsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hakan Yakin ranks 72. Before him are Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Andreas Kaplan, Zachary Quinto, Ronan Keating, Alex, and Annie Wersching. After him are Sofi Oksanen, Frédéric Kanouté, Manu Ginóbili, Freddie Ljungberg, So Ji-sub, and Peter Phillips.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hakan Yakin ranks 419 out of 1,015. Before him are Hermann Obrist (1863), Walter Thurnherr (1963), Albert Meyer (1870), Anita Traversi (1937), Aegidius Tschudi (1505), and Eugeniusz Bodo (1899). After him are Ueli Steck (1976), Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), Stefano Franscini (1796), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Karl Ludwig von Haller (1768), and Pierre Cérésole (1879).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Hakan Yakin ranks 16. Before him are Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), Richard Dürr (1938), Oliver Neuville (1973), Thomas Bickel (1963), Robert Ballaman (1926), and Murat Yakin (1974). After him are Stephan Lichtsteiner (1984), Roger Courtois (1912), Granit Xhaka (1992), Charles Antenen (1929), Heinz Hermann (1958), and Alexander Frei (1979).

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