SOCCER PLAYER

Luuk de Jong

1990 - Today

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Luuk de Jong (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlyɡ də ˈjɔŋ]; born 27 August 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker and captains Eredivisie club PSV Eindhoven. De Jong previously played for DZC '68, De Graafschap, Twente, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Newcastle United, before joining PSV in 2014. He played over 200 games for the club, scoring over 100 goals, and helped them win the Eredivisie three times in his five-season stay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luuk de Jong has received more than 3,639,718 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Luuk de Jong is the 1,549th most popular soccer player (down from 896th in 2019), the 363rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 269th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Luuk de Jong ranks 1,549 out of 21,273. Before him are Yasuhiko Okudera, Richard Witschge, Erwin Vandenbergh, Johann Horvath, Kálmán Mészöly, and Fahrudin Jusufi. After him are Teodoro Fernández, Ángel Melogno, Horst Blankenburg, Burak Yılmaz, Juan Carlos Calvo, and Árpád Weisz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1990, Luuk de Jong ranks 20. Before him are Bojan Krkić, Douglas Costa, Ciro Immobile, SZA, Wojciech Szczęsny, and Nacho. After him are André Schürrle, Miralem Pjanić, Park Shin-hye, Jordan Henderson, Sergio Pérez, and Daley Blind.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Luuk de Jong ranks 363 out of 1,015. Before him are Henri Schwery (1932), Hans Erni (1909), Jakob Hermann (1678), Andreas Vollenweider (1953), Antonio Ciseri (1821), and Daniel Schmid (1941). After him are Françoise Giroud (1916), Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), Othmar Schoeck (1886), Aloïse Corbaz (1886), Maria Bernarda Bütler (1848), and Alexander Schallenberg (1969).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Luuk de Jong ranks 9. Before him are Ivan Rakitić (1988), Marcel Koller (1960), Yann Sommer (1988), Leopold Kielholz (1911), Max Abegglen (1902), and Josef Hügi (1930). After him are Stéphane Chapuisat (1969), Richard Dürr (1938), Oliver Neuville (1973), Thomas Bickel (1963), Robert Ballaman (1926), and Murat Yakin (1974).

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