SOCCER PLAYER

Mark van Bommel

1977 - Today

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Mark Peter Gertruda Andreas van Bommel (born 22 April 1977) is a Dutch football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the manager of Belgian side Royal Antwerp. His FIFA World Cup profile describes him as "a tackling machine and expert ball-winner, but he also boasts a fine array of passes and a powerful shot, having been a free-kick specialist during his PSV days".He played in and won the Dutch Eredivisie with PSV, Spanish La Liga with Barcelona, German Bundesliga with Bayern Munich, and Italian Serie A with Milan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark van Bommel has received more than 1,599,798 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Mark van Bommel is the 479th most popular soccer player (up from 606th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 321st in 2019) and the 25th most popular Dutch Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mark van Bommels by language

Over the past year Mark van Bommel has had the most page views in the with 268,567 views, followed by Dutch (115,365), and Spanish (62,171). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (381.28%), Catalan (217.79%), and Ukrainian (131.09%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mark van Bommel ranks 479 out of 21,273. Before him are Héctor Yazalde, Frank Lampard, Teiichi Matsumaru, Rudi Garcia, Alan Shearer, and Nicolas Anelka. After him are Ferenc Deák, Fernando Redondo, Everaldo, Agne Simonsson, Hidetoshi Nakata, and Marco Reus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Mark van Bommel ranks 26. Before him are Psy, Liv Tyler, Natalia Oreiro, Gianluca Zambrotta, Michael Fassbender, and Mette Frederiksen. After him are Hidetoshi Nakata, Brittany Murphy, Tarja Turunen, Robert Enke, Luca Toni, and Kanye West.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Mark van Bommel ranks 265 out of 1,646. Before him are Carel Struycken (1948), Otto van Veen (1556), Nicolaes Maes (1634), Danny Blind (1961), Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856), and Dick Bruna (1927). After him are Jacob van Campen (1596), Armin van Buuren (1976), William, Prince of Orange (1840), Constantijn Huygens (1596), Frederik Ruysch (1638), and Cornelis de Houtman (1565).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among soccer players born in Netherlands, Mark van Bommel ranks 25. Before him are Wim Jansen (1946), Robin van Persie (1983), Wim Suurbier (1945), Patrick Kluivert (1976), Willem van Hanegem (1944), and Danny Blind (1961). After him are Erik ten Hag (1970), Frank de Boer (1970), Erwin Koeman (1961), Piet Schrijvers (1946), Roy Makaay (1975), and Phillip Cocu (1970).

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