1994 - Today
João Pedro Cavaco Cancelo (born 27 May 1994) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a full back for La Liga club Barcelona, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City, and the Portugal national team. After coming through Benfica's youth academy, Cancelo began playing for the club's reserve team in 2012 and was promoted to the first team two years later. He was subsequently loaned to La Liga club Valencia during the 2014–15 season, before the move was made permanent in 2015. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of João Cancelo has received more than 4,183,202 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). João Cancelo is the 3,133rd most popular soccer player (up from 3,760th in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 318th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, João Cancelo ranks 3,133 out of 16,880. Before him are Anto Drobnjak, Numa Andoire, Alfonso Pérez, Foppe de Haan, Nils Nilsson, and Akhrik Tsveiba. After him are Geremi, Tetsuo Sugamata, Germano Boettcher Sobrinho, Sven Jacobsson, Christoph Metzelder, and Nicolás Burdisso.
1968 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,127
1908 - 1994
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,128
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,129
1943 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,130
1936 - 2017
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,131
1966 - Present
HPI: 44.65
Rank: 3,132
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 3,133
1978 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 3,134
1957 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 3,135
1911 - 1977
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 3,136
1914 - 1983
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 3,137
1980 - Present
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 3,138
1981 - Present
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 3,139
Among people born in 1994, João Cancelo ranks 32. Before him are Bernardo Silva, Emre Can, Daniil Kvyat, Marcel Sabitzer, Leandro Paredes, and August Ames. After him are Jackson Wang, Christina Grimmie, Carlos Sainz Jr., Elina Svitolina, Nam Joo-hyuk, and Corentin Tolisso.
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 26
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.53
Rank: 27
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 28
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 29
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.09
Rank: 30
1994 - 2017
HPI: 44.87
Rank: 31
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 32
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.60
Rank: 33
1994 - 2016
HPI: 44.49
Rank: 34
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.44
Rank: 35
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.27
Rank: 36
1994 - Present
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 37
1994 - Present
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 38
Among people born in Portugal, João Cancelo ranks 335 out of 555. Before him are Aquilino Ribeiro (1885), Hélder Postiga (1982), Pedro Costa (1958), Pedro Proença (1970), Jorge Costa (1971), and Eduardo Serra (1943). After him are António Oliveira (1952), Lio (1962), Paulo de Carvalho (1947), Pedro Lamy (1972), Natália Correia (1923), and João Félix (1999).
1885 - 1963
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 329
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 330
1958 - Present
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 331
1970 - Present
HPI: 44.83
Rank: 332
1971 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 333
1943 - Present
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 334
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 335
1952 - Present
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 336
1962 - Present
HPI: 44.47
Rank: 337
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.46
Rank: 338
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.39
Rank: 339
1923 - 1993
HPI: 44.37
Rank: 340
1999 - Present
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 341
Among soccer players born in Portugal, João Cancelo ranks 49. Before him are Ricardo Sá Pinto (1972), Bernardo Silva (1994), Renato Sanches (1997), Fernando Chalana (1959), Hélder Postiga (1982), and Jorge Costa (1971). After him are António Oliveira (1952), João Félix (1999), Ricardo (1976), Domingos Paciência (1969), João Pinto (1961), and Fernando Meira (1978).
1972 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 43
1994 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 44
1997 - Present
HPI: 45.76
Rank: 45
1959 - 2022
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 46
1982 - Present
HPI: 44.86
Rank: 47
1971 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 48
1994 - Present
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 49
1952 - Present
HPI: 44.48
Rank: 50
1999 - Present
HPI: 44.24
Rank: 51
1976 - Present
HPI: 43.67
Rank: 52
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 53
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.30
Rank: 54
1978 - Present
HPI: 43.22
Rank: 55