1980 - Today
Javad Nekounam (Persian: جواد نکونام; born 7 September 1980) is an Iranian football manager and former player who currently coaches Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal. He holds the record for the most appearances for the Iranian national football team. Nicknamed Neku by numerous Iranian football fans, he played as a midfielder, and is also regarded as one of greatest players of the history of Esteghlal Tehran. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Javad Nekounam has received more than 392,365 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Javad Nekounam is the 4,890th most popular soccer player (down from 4,617th in 2019), the 384th most popular biography from Iran (down from 347th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iranian Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Javad Nekounam ranks 4,890 out of 16,880. Before him are Afonso Alves, Pavel Panov, Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Franco Armani, Arthur Boka, and Younis Mahmoud. After him are Luigi Apolloni, Silvio Pietroboni, Luis Alberto, Plamen Markov, Riqui Puig, and Lee Chun-soo.
1981 - Present
HPI: 40.13
Rank: 4,884
1950 - 2018
HPI: 40.13
Rank: 4,885
1962 - Present
HPI: 40.13
Rank: 4,886
1986 - Present
HPI: 40.12
Rank: 4,887
1983 - Present
HPI: 40.12
Rank: 4,888
1983 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 4,889
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 4,890
1967 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 4,891
1904 - 1987
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 4,892
1992 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 4,893
1957 - Present
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 4,894
1999 - Present
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 4,895
1981 - Present
HPI: 40.10
Rank: 4,896
Among people born in 1980, Javad Nekounam ranks 208. Before him are Enzo Maresca, Mikel Alonso, Aruna Dindane, Samaire Armstrong, Matuzalém, and Mamiko Noto. After him are Sophia Myles, Ovidiu Hațegan, Katrine Lunde, Vanessa Ferlito, Daisuke Matsuzaka, and Gökdeniz Karadeniz.
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.36
Rank: 202
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.22
Rank: 203
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.21
Rank: 204
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.19
Rank: 205
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.18
Rank: 206
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.16
Rank: 207
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 208
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.04
Rank: 209
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.03
Rank: 210
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 211
1980 - Present
HPI: 39.93
Rank: 212
1980 - Present
HPI: 39.91
Rank: 213
1980 - Present
HPI: 39.82
Rank: 214
Among people born in Iran, Javad Nekounam ranks 384 out of 528. Before him are Shahab Hosseini (1974), Masoumeh Ebtekar (1960), Abd al-Samad (1500), Shohreh (1959), Safdar Jang (1708), and Hossein Rezazadeh (1978). After him are Kayhan Kalhor (1963), Reza Hosseini Nassab (1960), Mostafa Zamani (1982), Khodadad Azizi (1971), Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (1950), and Alireza Jahanbakhsh (1993).
1974 - Present
HPI: 41.09
Rank: 378
1960 - Present
HPI: 40.61
Rank: 379
1500 - 1593
HPI: 40.51
Rank: 380
1959 - Present
HPI: 40.46
Rank: 381
1708 - 1754
HPI: 40.37
Rank: 382
1978 - Present
HPI: 40.36
Rank: 383
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 384
1963 - Present
HPI: 40.01
Rank: 385
1960 - Present
HPI: 39.82
Rank: 386
1982 - Present
HPI: 39.59
Rank: 387
1971 - Present
HPI: 39.53
Rank: 388
1950 - 2014
HPI: 39.44
Rank: 389
1993 - Present
HPI: 39.19
Rank: 390
Among soccer players born in Iran, Javad Nekounam ranks 8. Before him are Sardar Azmoun (1995), Ali Parvin (1946), Nasser Hejazi (1949), Andranik Eskandarian (1951), Ali Karimi (1978), and Mehdi Mahdavikia (1977). After him are Khodadad Azizi (1971), Gholam Hossein Mazloumi (1950), Alireza Jahanbakhsh (1993), Vahid Hashemian (1976), Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh (1966), and Karim Bagheri (1974).
1995 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 2
1946 - Present
HPI: 45.50
Rank: 3
1949 - 2011
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 4
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.51
Rank: 5
1978 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 6
1977 - Present
HPI: 41.51
Rank: 7
1980 - Present
HPI: 40.11
Rank: 8
1971 - Present
HPI: 39.53
Rank: 9
1950 - 2014
HPI: 39.44
Rank: 10
1993 - Present
HPI: 39.19
Rank: 11
1976 - Present
HPI: 39.08
Rank: 12
1966 - Present
HPI: 38.51
Rank: 13
1974 - Present
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 14