SOCCER PLAYER

Joël Matip

1991 - Today

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Job Joël André Matip (born 8 August 1991) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Matip began his professional career with Schalke 04 in 2009, and was part of their teams that won the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup in 2011. He totalled 258 competitive appearances and 23 goals before moving to Liverpool on a free transfer in 2016, where he won the UEFA Champions League in 2019, starting in the final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joël Matip has received more than 3,808,682 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Joël Matip is the 4,837th most popular soccer player (down from 4,252nd in 2019), the 5,353rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,745th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 3.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Joël Matip ranks 4,837 out of 21,273. Before him are Michael Krohn-Dehli, André Gomes, Károly Weichelt, Stiliyan Petrov, Víctor Aristizábal, and Raúl Sánchez. After him are Bernard Casoni, Miguel Mejía Barón, Marc Baecke, William Ayache, Igor Jovićević, and Patricio Arabolaza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, Joël Matip ranks 72. Before him are Karol G, André Carrillo, Kim Go-eun, Earvin N'Gapeth, Choi Min-ho, and Isaac Cuenca. After him are Jang Hyun-soo, Kawhi Leonard, Yang Yang, Kostas Manolas, Thomas Delaney, and Wi Ha-joon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joël Matip ranks 5,353 out of 7,253. Before him are Manfred Manglitz (1940), Tobias Sammet (1977), Waldemar Tietgens (1879), Wilhelm Bungert (1939), Irmgard Praetz (1920), and Max Bodenstein (1871). After him are Rudolf Geiger (1894), Josef Peters (1914), Heiner Brand (1952), Paul Falk (1921), Hans-Georg Aschenbach (1951), and Paul Steiner (1957).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Joël Matip ranks 322. Before him are Caspar Memering (1953), Marcell Jansen (1985), Peter Nogly (1947), Jens Nowotny (1974), Otto Addo (1975), and Manfred Manglitz (1940). After him are Paul Steiner (1957), Rudolf Kargus (1952), Andreas Thom (1965), Christian Wörns (1972), Giorgos Donis (1969), and Maurizio Gaudino (1966).

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