SOCCER PLAYER

Manuel Akanji

1995 - Today

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Manuel Obafemi Akanji (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈmaː.nu.ɛl aˈkan.dʒi]; born 19 July 1995) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for Premier League club Manchester City and the Switzerland national team. An academy graduate of FC Winterthur, Akanji's professional career began in 2014, when he made his debut for the then-Swiss Challenge League club, having also previously played for the club's second team. He moved to first tier FC Basel in 2015, where he won consecutive league titles in 2015–16 and 2016–17, the latter of which was a double that included the 2016–17 Swiss Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Akanji has received more than 2,774,670 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Manuel Akanji is the 4,523rd most popular soccer player (up from 5,584th in 2019), the 611th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 634th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Swiss Soccer Player.

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  • 2.8M

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  • 52.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Manuel Akanji ranks 4,523 out of 21,273. Before him are Thomas Mavros, Luciano Vietto, Casiano Delvalle, Justin Fashanu, Marcelinho Paraíba, and Christian Corrêa Dionisio. After him are Georges Carnus, Masaaki Kato, Ramón Quiroga, Enrique Hormazábal, Dragutin Najdanović, and Sergio Rico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1995, Manuel Akanji ranks 40. Before him are Anthony Martial, Nayeon, Ángel Correa, Nathan Aké, Giovanni Simeone, and Munir El Haddadi. After him are Divock Origi, Otávio Edmilson da Silva Monteiro, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Krzysztof Piątek, Clément Lenglet, and Héctor Bellerín.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Manuel Akanji ranks 611 out of 1,015. Before him are Urs Meier (1959), Urs Bühler (1971), Heini Walter (1927), Georges Bregy (1958), Emmanuel Pahud (1970), and Georges Trombert (1874). After him are Bruno Manser (1954), Erika Hess (1962), Willy Kernen (1929), Paul Niggli (1888), Didier Cuche (1974), and Lukas Ammann (1912).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Switzerland

Among soccer players born in Switzerland, Manuel Akanji ranks 51. Before him are Diego Benaglio (1983), Haris Seferović (1992), Werner Leimgruber (1934), Hans Pulver (1902), Georges Stuber (1925), and Georges Bregy (1958). After him are Willy Kernen (1929), Tranquillo Barnetta (1985), Claudio Sulser (1955), Walter Weiler (1903), Alain Sutter (1968), and Gökhan Inler (1984).

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