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Marcel Desailly

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Marcel Desailly (French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dəzaji]; born Odenke Abbey; 7 September 1968) is a former professional footballer, capable of playing as both centre-back or defensive midfielder. During a successful career at club level, lasting from 1986 to 2006, Desailly won several titles, including UEFA Champions League medals with both Marseille and AC Milan, and also played for Nantes and Chelsea, among other teams. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Desailly has received more than 2,214,377 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Marcel Desailly is the 230th most popular soccer player (up from 289th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Ghana (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Ghanaian Soccer Player.

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  • 2.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Marcel Desailly ranks 230 out of 21,273. Before him are Alessandro Costacurta, Rui Costa, Zbigniew Boniek, Dani Alves, Gaetano Scirea, and Luís Figo. After him are Diego Forlán, Ștefan Kovács, Raimundo Orsi, Aimé Jacquet, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, and Ramón Díaz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Marcel Desailly ranks 17. Before him are Marine Le Pen, Timothy McVeigh, Mika Häkkinen, Brendan Fraser, Susan Wojcicki, and Naomi Watts. After him are Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Gillian Anderson, Anastacia, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Owen Wilson, and Fernando Hierro.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Marcel Desailly ranks 3 out of 162. Before him are Kofi Annan (1938), and Kwame Nkrumah (1909). After him are Nana Akufo-Addo (1944), Abedi Pele (1964), Sylvanus Olympio (1902), Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703), Jerry Rawlings (1947), Michael Essien (1982), John Atta Mills (1944), Peter Turkson (1948), and Peter Mensah (1959).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ghana

Among soccer players born in Ghana, Marcel Desailly ranks 1. After him are Abedi Pele (1964), Michael Essien (1982), Samuel Kuffour (1976), Sulley Muntari (1984), Asamoah Gyan (1985), Gerald Asamoah (1978), Ibrahim Sunday (1944), Alphonso Davies (2000), Stephen Appiah (1980), Tony Yeboah (1966), and Kwadwo Asamoah (1988).

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