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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 and the greatest Asian female footballer of all time, Sawa had a professional club career spanning 24 seasons, mostly with Nippon TV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Homare Sawa has received more than 585,768 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 47 in 2019). Homare Sawa is the 4,362nd most popular soccer player (up from 4,479th in 2019), the 1,485th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,424th in 2019) and the 300th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Homare Sawa ranks 4,362 out of 16,880. Before her are Jeffrén Suárez, Giuseppe Rossi, Tranquillo Barnetta, Marcell Jansen, Blaise Nkufo, and Mehdi Mahdavikia. After her are Ronny Rosenthal, Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, Alessio Tacchinardi, Tim Borowski, Kostas Katsouranis, and Dani Osvaldo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Homare Sawa ranks 215. Before her are Madeline Miller, Thor Hushovd, Jérôme Rothen, Vanness Wu, Bajrakitiyabha, and Emile Heskey. After her are Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Summer Phoenix, Bushido, Sandra Hüller, Josip Šimunić, and Louise Brown.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 1,485 out of 6,048. Before her are Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), Kinuko Tanida (1939), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (1968), Rie Miyazawa (1973), Aya Hisakawa (1968), and Hideo Ishikawa (1969). After her are Yū Aoi (1985), Naoko Nishigai (1969), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Yoshio Kato (1957), Midori (1971), and Ko Shibasaki (1981).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Homare Sawa ranks 300. Before her are Yoshinori Ishigami (1957), Yumi Watanabe (1970), Satoshi Miyauchi (1959), Yahiro Kazama (1961), Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959), and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (1968). After her are Naoko Nishigai (1969), Yoshio Kato (1957), Yukitaka Omi (1952), Yuya Osako (1990), Yoshikazu Nagai (1952), and Mami Kaneda (1968).

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