SOCCER PLAYER

Marcelo Zalayeta

1978 - Today

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Marcelo Danubio Zalayeta ([maɾˈselo salaˈʝeta]; born 5 December 1978) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a striker. Zalayeta began his club career with Danubio before moving to Peñarol for a season in 1997, where he won the Uruguayan Primera División and the Uruguayan Liguilla Cup. Later that year, he was acquired by Italian club Juventus, where he remained for ten seasons, winning three Serie A titles and reaching the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final, although he was sent on several loan spells with Empoli, Spanish side Sevilla and Perugia during his time at the Turin club, due to heavy competition from other strikers in the team's line-up. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcelo Zalayeta has received more than 291,932 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Marcelo Zalayeta is the 4,862nd most popular soccer player (down from 4,231st in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 206th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Uruguayan Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Marcelo Zalayeta ranks 4,862 out of 21,273. Before him are Beto, Paul Steiner, Danny, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Iván Hurtado, and Juraj Kucka. After him are Ion Dumitru, Gejus van der Meulen, Héctor Bellerín, Tiago Mendes, Luis Islas, and Donizete Oliveira.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Marcelo Zalayeta ranks 188. Before him are Gastón Gaudio, Joo Sang-wook, Josip Šimunić, Jérôme Rothen, Lyoto Machida, and Guy Berryman. After him are Kim Sa-rang, Jonathan Zebina, Geoffrey Arend, Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Mosab Hassan Yousef, and Nicholle Tom.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Marcelo Zalayeta ranks 241 out of 444. Before him are Óscar González (1923), Darwin Núñez (1999), Aníbal Ruiz (1942), Jorge Da Silva (1961), José Urruzmendi (1944), and Humberto Tomasina (1898). After him are Héctor Santos (1944), Álvaro Pereira (1985), Julio Herrera y Obes (1841), Domingo Pérez (1936), Walter Pandiani (1976), and Oscar Zubía (1946).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Uruguay

Among soccer players born in Uruguay, Marcelo Zalayeta ranks 141. Before him are Jorge Manicera (1938), Darwin Núñez (1999), Aníbal Ruiz (1942), Jorge Da Silva (1961), José Urruzmendi (1944), and Humberto Tomasina (1898). After him are Héctor Santos (1944), Álvaro Pereira (1985), Domingo Pérez (1936), Walter Pandiani (1976), Oscar Zubía (1946), and Pablo Gabriel García (1977).

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