SOCCER PLAYER

Maya Yoshida

1988 - Today

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Maya Yoshida (吉田 麻也, Yoshida Maya, born 24 August 1988) is a Japanese professional footballer who captains and plays as a centre-back for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy. Yoshida formerly played for the Japan national team, making over 120 appearances. He was a member of the side's squads for the FIFA World Cup in 2014, 2018 and 2022, and the AFC Asian Cup in 2011, 2015 and 2019, winning the latter tournament in 2011 and finishing as runner-up in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maya Yoshida has received more than 1,577,341 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia. Maya Yoshida is the 3,141st most popular soccer player (down from 2,678th in 2019), the 1,300th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,205th in 2019) and the 238th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Maya Yoshida ranks 3,141 out of 21,273. Before him are Paolo Barison, Norberto Boggio, Javier Hernández, Harry Lundahl, Pedro Dellacha, and Massimo Carrera. After him are Rudolf Viertl, Kazuo Saito, Franciszek Smuda, Vivian Woodward, Carlos Schneeberger, and Antonio Vojak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Maya Yoshida ranks 69. Before him are Jihadi John, Anikka Albrite, Benedikt Höwedes, Haley Joel Osment, Gregory van der Wiel, and Angelique Kerber. After him are Grimes, Steven Nzonzi, Josip Iličić, Justin Gaethje, Skrillex, and Ahn Bo-hyun.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Maya Yoshida ranks 1,300 out of 6,245. Before him are Mikio Aoki (1934), Takehide Nakatani (1941), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963), Mamoru Mohri (1948), Masaru Uchiyama (1957), and Riichi Yokomitsu (1898). After him are Kazuo Saito (1951), Hironobu Kageyama (1961), Takeshi Shudo (1949), Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967), Shu Kamo (1939), and Haruhiro Yamashita (1938).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Maya Yoshida ranks 238. Before him are Hiroshi Yoshida (1958), Makoto Hasebe (1984), Nobuyo Fujishiro (1960), Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1975), Nobuko Kondo (1956), and Masaru Uchiyama (1957). After him are Kazuo Saito (1951), Shu Kamo (1939), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Kazushi Kimura (1958), Nobuo Fujishima (1950), and Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949).

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