SOCCER PLAYER

Homare Sawa

1978 - Today

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Homare Sawa (澤 穂希, Sawa Homare, born 6 September 1978) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward or a midfielder. Regarded by many as one of the greatest female footballers of all time, Sawa had a professional club career spanning 24 seasons, mostly with Nippon TV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa. She also spent 22 years with the Japan national team, most notably captaining them to a FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 and an Olympic silver medal finish in 2012. Sawa made her club debut in 1991 at the age of 12, and went on to win five titles with Nippon TV Beleza between 1991 and 1999 before departing to the United States to play football in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Homare Sawa has received more than 645,466 page views. Her biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Homare Sawa is the 1,700th most popular soccer player (up from 4,361st in 2019), the 1,019th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,482nd in 2019) and the 178th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Homare Sawa ranks 1,700 out of 21,273. Before her are Aldo Boffi, Otto Glória, Billy Meredith, Steve Perryman, Étienne Mattler, and Ndaye Mulamba. After her are Vincent Kompany, Vladica Kovačević, Gigi Meroni, Pedro, Vincent Candela, and Nenad Bjelica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Homare Sawa ranks 52. Before her are Vanessa-Mae, Luis Fonsi, Igor Tudor, Nicole Scherzinger, Gael García Bernal, and Laetitia Casta. After her are Lauren German, Amal Clooney, Gwendoline Christie, Steve Chen, Eiður Guðjohnsen, and Jelena Karleuša.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 1,019 out of 6,245. Before her are Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Yoshiro Nakamatsu (1928), Toyohiro Akiyama (1942), Katsukawa Shunshō (1726), and Damo Suzuki (1950). After her are Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ogyū Sorai (1666), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Moto Hagio (1949), Hisashi Owada (1932), and Yuko Shimizu (1946).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 178. Before her are Yasuhiko Okudera (1952), Nagayasu Honda (null), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), Ryuichi Sugiyama (1941), Hiroji Imamura (1949), and Nobuo Kawakami (1947). After her are Hideki Maeda (1954), Keizo Imai (1950), Shinji Kagawa (1989), Masatada Ishii (1967), Tokutaro Ukon (1913), and Takaji Mori (1943).

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