SOCCER PLAYER

Landon Donovan

1982 - Today

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Landon Timothy Donovan (born March 4, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player and coach who was most recently the interim head coach of San Diego Wave FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Widely regarded as one of the greatest U.S. players of all time, Donovan holds the world record for the man with the most international assists (58), and is tied with Clint Dempsey for the most international goals scored by a male U.S. player (57). An early soccer product of IMG Academy, Donovan signed for Bayer Leverkusen in 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Landon Donovan has received more than 5,750,433 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Landon Donovan is the 2,731st most popular soccer player (up from 2,762nd in 2019), the 6,582nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,214th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Landon Donovan ranks 2,731 out of 21,273. Before him are Hiroyuki Usui, Mario Genta, Juan Carreño, Alexandre Czerniatynski, Jérémy Mathieu, and Zlatko Papec. After him are Sébastien Haller, Silvester Takač, Andrei Glanzmann, Pierluigi Casiraghi, Łukasz Piszczek, and Antonio Puchades.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Landon Donovan ranks 83. Before him are Ian Thorpe, Monique Alexander, Alan Ritchson, David Ferrer, Abbie Cornish, and David Nalbandian. After him are Rain, Evgeni Plushenko, Alex, Han Ji-min, Lizzy Caplan, and Elena Paparizou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Landon Donovan ranks 6,582 out of 20,380. Before him are Gene Haas (1952), Arthur Samuel (1901), Richard Bong (1920), William Higinbotham (1910), John Myung (1967), and Richmond Landon (1898). After him are Henry Slocum (1862), Kathleen Battle (1948), Mario Segale (1934), Michael Chapman (1935), George Jones (1931), and Jared Kushner (1981).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United States

Among soccer players born in United States, Landon Donovan ranks 4. Before him are Bert Patenaude (1909), Mia Hamm (1972), and Michelle Akers (1966). After him are Megan Rapinoe (1985), DeAndre Yedlin (1993), Al Harker (1910), Bruce Arena (1951), Christian Pulisic (1998), Tom Florie (1897), Brad Friedel (1971), and Alex Morgan (1989).

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