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Lakhdar Belloumi

1958 - Today

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Lakhdar Belloumi (Arabic: لخضر بلومي; born on 29 December 1958) is an Algerian former football player and manager. A former attacking midfielder, he is widely considered the best Algerian player of all time and one of the best players in Africa. He is said to have invented the "Blind Pass". He was named the fourth-best African player of the century by IFFHS. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lakhdar Belloumi has received more than 218,083 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Lakhdar Belloumi is the 1,080th most popular soccer player (up from 1,218th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Algeria (up from 88th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Algerian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Lakhdar Belloumi ranks 1,080 out of 21,273. Before him are Akira Matsunaga, Shojiro Sugimura, Maicon Sisenando, Minoru Kobata, Hansi Müller, and Eusebio Tejera. After him are Jesús Navas, Marcelino García Toral, Erich Probst, Ángel Bossio, Frank Arnesen, and Sven Rydell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Lakhdar Belloumi ranks 101. Before him are Fiona Shaw, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Riccardo Paletti, Sergey Sobyanin, Andy Gibb, and Cornelia Funke. After him are David O. Russell, Didier Auriol, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Kevin Sorbo, Carlos Tavares, and Natalya Estemirova.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Lakhdar Belloumi ranks 82 out of 213. Before him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal (1894), Ahmed Ouyahia (1952), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Abdelmalek Sellal (1948), Rachid Taha (1958), and Maximilian of Tebessa (274). After him are Françoise Arnoul (1931), Thelma Schoonmaker (1940), Mouloud Mammeri (1917), Albert Soboul (1914), Patrick Bruel (1959), and Optatus (400).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Algeria

Among soccer players born in Algeria, Lakhdar Belloumi ranks 2. Before him are Rabah Madjer (1958). After him are Rabah Saâdane (1946), Alexandre Villaplane (1905), Djamel Zidane (1955), Rachid Mekhloufi (1936), Abdelaziz Ben Tifour (1927), Mustapha Dahleb (1952), Islam Slimani (1988), Ali Bencheikh (1955), Salah Assad (1958), and Christian Lopez (1953).

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