SOCCER PLAYER

Hakan Şükür

1971 - Today

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Hakan Şükür (Albanian: Shykyr; born 1 September 1971) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed the "Bull of the Bosphorus" and Kral (king), he spent the majority of his professional career with Galatasaray, being a three-time Gol Kralı (Goal King, title and award given to the annual top goalscorer of the Süper Lig), representing the club in three different spells and winning a total of 14 major titles.Şükür represented Turkey a total of 112 times, scoring 51 goals, making him the nation's top goalscorer and 19th in the world at the time of his retirement. One of the most prolific strikers of the modern era, he netted 383 goals throughout his club career as well as the fastest ever in a World Cup, in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hakan Şükür has received more than 1,536,313 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Hakan Şükür is the 337th most popular soccer player (up from 378th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 542nd in 2019) and the most popular Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Hakan Şükür has had the most page views in the with 235,086 views, followed by English (225,010), and German (40,833). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (409.91%), Kurdish (Kurmanji) (189.14%), and Malagasy (77.15%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hakan Şükür ranks 337 out of 21,273. Before him are Jari Litmanen, Olivier Giroud, Leonel Sánchez, Hernán Crespo, Santillana, and Quini. After him are Cláudio Taffarel, Toninho Cerezo, Vladimir Beara, Marco Materazzi, Emmanuel Petit, and Mauro Ramos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Hakan Şükür ranks 23. Before him are Kim Jong-nam, Fabien Barthez, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dolores O'Riordan, Ewan McGregor, and Jari Litmanen. After him are Lance Armstrong, Sacha Baron Cohen, Henrik Larsson, Unai Emery, Thalía, and Vitali Klitschko.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Hakan Şükür ranks 402 out of 1,347. Before him are Muzafer Sherif (1906), Ignatios of Constantinople (797), Markos Vafeiadis (1906), Sultan Kösen (1982), George Akropolites (1217), and Tudḫaliya IV (-1300). After him are Symeon the Metaphrast (900), Ziya Gökalp (1876), Pelagia (400), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), Paisios of Mount Athos (1924), and Prusias I of Bithynia (-300).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Türkiye

Among soccer players born in Türkiye, Hakan Şükür ranks 1. After him are Burhan Sargun (1929), Ali Sami Yen (1886), Rüştü Reçber (1973), Akgün Kaçmaz (1935), Lefter Küçükandonyadis (1924), Arda Turan (1987), Metin Oktay (1936), Mustafa Denizli (1949), Burak Yılmaz (1985), Emre Belözoğlu (1980), and Turgay Şeren (1932).

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