SOCCER PLAYER

Jermain Defoe

1982 - Today

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Jermain Colin Defoe (born 7 October 1982) is an English football coach and former professional player. He was most recently the under-18s coach at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. Defoe was a striker and began his career with Charlton Athletic, joining their youth team aged 14, before moving to West Ham United aged 16 and rising through the ranks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jermain Defoe has received more than 6,950,988 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Jermain Defoe is the 4,731st most popular soccer player (down from 4,666th in 2019), the 4,789th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,951st in 2019) and the 217th most popular British Soccer Player.

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  • 7.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Jermain Defoe ranks 4,731 out of 21,273Before him are José Basualdo, Achmad Nawir, Salaheddine Bassir, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Miguel Jones, and John Danielsen. After him are Niko Kranjčar, Chris Smalling, Ole Qvist, Vadym Yevtushenko, Anders Limpar, and Pablo Sarabia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Jermain Defoe ranks 149Before him are Marco Amelia, Matthias Steiner, Lee Min-jung, Flavia Pennetta, Pierre Webó, and Kelly Clarkson. After him are Sunrise Adams, Tomasz Kuszczak, Stipe Miocic, Thomas Middleditch, Alison Brie, and Lucas Black.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jermain Defoe ranks 4,789 out of 8,785Before him are Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Daniel Massey (1933), Mary Midgley (1919), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), Jean Kent (1921), and Celia Johnson (1908). After him are Chris Smalling (1989), Shirley Brasher (1934), Richard Brake (1964), Tommy Steele (1936), Don Finlay (1909), and Caroline Cossey (1954).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Jermain Defoe ranks 217Before him are Justin Fashanu (1961), Adam Lallana (1988), Trent Alexander-Arnold (1998), Terry McDermott (1951), Tony Woodcock (1955), and Kieran Trippier (1990). After him are Chris Smalling (1989), Andy Carroll (1989), Eric Dier (1994), Joe Spence (1898), Ray Kennedy (1951), and Derek Kevan (1935).