SOCCER PLAYER

Hidetoshi Nakata

1977 - Today

Photo of Hidetoshi Nakata

Icon of person Hidetoshi Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI (中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi, born 22 January 1977) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered one of the best talents to come from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the early late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or. Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three World Cup tournaments (1998, 2002 and 2006) and competed in the Olympics twice (1996 and 2000). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hidetoshi Nakata has received more than 2,050,203 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Hidetoshi Nakata is the 484th most popular soccer player (down from 424th in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Japan (up from 474th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 71

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 484 out of 21,273. Before him are Nicolas Anelka, Mark van Bommel, Ferenc Deák, Fernando Redondo, Everaldo, and Agne Simonsson. After him are Marco Reus, Javier Clemente, Rabah Madjer, Klaus Fischer, Shozo Tsugitani, and Hiroshi Kanazawa.

Most Popular Soccer Players in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 27. Before him are Liv Tyler, Natalia Oreiro, Gianluca Zambrotta, Michael Fassbender, Mette Frederiksen, and Mark van Bommel. After him are Brittany Murphy, Tarja Turunen, Robert Enke, Luca Toni, Kanye West, and Sarah Wayne Callies.

Others Born in 1977

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 471 out of 6,245. Before him are Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Keizō Obuchi (1937), Oichi (1547), Hon'inbō Shūsaku (1829), Emperor Kōkō (830), and Takeda Sōkaku (1859). After him are Takeo Kurita (1889), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Hayato Ikeda (1899), Tokugawa Ieshige (1712), Noboru Takeshita (1924), and Matsukata Masayoshi (1835).

Others born in Japan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 50. Before him are Ko Arima (1917), Masao Uchino (1934), Masafumi Hara (1943), Shunichi Kumai (1910), Hirokazu Ninomiya (1917), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909). After him are Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), Masanori Tokita (1925), Hifuyo Uchida (null), Nobuo Matsunaga (1921), and Junji Kawano (1945).

Japanese born Soccer Players

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous