SOCCER PLAYER

Karlheinz Förster

1958 - Today

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Karlheinz Helmut Förster (born 25 July 1958) is a German former professional footballer who played as a central defender. The younger brother of another football defender, Bernd Förster, he was regarded as one of the world's top man-markers at his peak, and played most of his career at VfB Stuttgart with Bernd. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karlheinz Förster has received more than 115,055 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Karlheinz Förster is the 1,164th most popular soccer player (up from 1,589th in 2019), the 3,039th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,647th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Karlheinz Försters by language

Over the past year Karlheinz Förster has had the most page views in the with 32,339 views, followed by English (15,156), and French (7,879). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Low Saxon (253.71%), Uzbek (201.28%), and Malagasy (176.36%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Karlheinz Förster ranks 1,164 out of 21,273. Before him are Guillermo Gorostiza, Bengt Gustavsson, Julinho, Pia Sundhage, Iván Córdoba, and Nery Pumpido. After him are Horst Szymaniak, Iñaki Sáez, Werner Liebrich, Vladimir Durković, Hasan Salihamidžić, and Sergei Salnikov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Karlheinz Förster ranks 110. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Kevin Sorbo, Carlos Tavares, Natalya Estemirova, Tony Leung Ka-fai, and Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. After him are Dragan Đokanović, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Eric Singer, Yoshito Usui, Michael Winslow, and Zdravko Krivokapić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karlheinz Förster ranks 3,039 out of 7,253. Before him are Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Marcel Ophüls (1927), Carl Peters (1856), and Peter Stein (1937). After him are Horst Szymaniak (1934), Fritz Bleyl (1880), Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877), Otto Ciliax (1891), Rudolf III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1373), and Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1646).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Karlheinz Förster ranks 90. Before him are Alfred Pfaff (1926), Joselu (1990), Mats Hummels (1988), Werner Kohlmeyer (1924), Ulf Kirsten (1965), and Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965). After him are Horst Szymaniak (1934), Werner Liebrich (1927), Mehmet Scholl (1970), Horst Köppel (1948), Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), and Dieter Hoeneß (1953).

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