SOCCER PLAYER

Ivan Rakitić

1988 - Today

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Ivan Rakitić (Croatian pronunciation: [ǐʋan rǎkititɕ]; born 10 March 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Al-Shabab. Born in Switzerland, he played for the Croatia national team. Rakitić started his professional career at Basel and spent two seasons with them before he was signed by Schalke 04. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Rakitić has received more than 5,562,369 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Ivan Rakitić is the 647th most popular soccer player (up from 738th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 239th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ivan Rakitić by language

Over the past year Ivan Rakitić has had the most page views in the with 587,203 views, followed by Spanish (246,944), and Italian (160,876). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cantonese (523.26%), Uzbek (297.44%), and Simple English (182.66%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ivan Rakitić ranks 647 out of 21,273. Before him are Roger Byrne, Klaus Augenthaler, Kim Sung-gan, Taro Kagawa, Willy van der Kuijlen, and Akira Nishino. After him are Mario Gómez, Hiroshi Saeki, Erich Juskowiak, Javier Saviola, Herbert Kilpin, and Félix Miélli Venerando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Ivan Rakitić ranks 10. Before him are Marcelo, Alexis Sánchez, Emma Stone, Sergio Agüero, Ángel Di María, and Conor McGregor. After him are Jérôme Boateng, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Ana de Armas, Derrick Rose, Sergio Busquets, and Rupert Grint.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Ivan Rakitić ranks 203 out of 1,015. Before him are Gabriela Andersen-Schiess (1945), André Abegglen (1909), Adrian Frutiger (1928), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Lucien Favre (1957), and Alfred Escher (1819). After him are Guy Parmelin (1959), Carlo Fontana (1638), Ruth Dreifuss (1940), Ubol Ratana (1951), Andy Hug (1964), and Edwin Fischer (1886).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Ivan Rakitić ranks 3. Before him are Roberto Di Matteo (1970), and André Abegglen (1909). After him are Marcel Koller (1960), Yann Sommer (1988), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Max Abegglen (1902), Josef Hügi (1930), Luuk de Jong (1990), Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), Richard Dürr (1938), and Oliver Neuville (1973).

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