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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 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 1,509,734 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 63 in 2019). Maya Yoshida is the 2,678th most popular soccer player (up from 3,030th in 2019), the 1,208th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,165th in 2019) and the 219th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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  • 45.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Maya Yoshida ranks 2,678 out of 16,880Before him are Jacques Songo'o, Maurice Lafont, Théodore Nouwens, Samuel Kuffour, Eliseo Mouriño, and Gordon Strachan. After him are Alexandre Czerniatynski, Ernie Brandts, Miguel Oviedo, Waldemar Victorino, Toby Alderweireld, and Glenn Strömberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Maya Yoshida ranks 64Before him are Kim Soo-hyun, Angelique Kerber, Nemanja Matić, Jamie Campbell Bower, Brenda Song, and Grimes. After him are Benedikt Höwedes, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Jung Hae-in, Islam Slimani, Princess Beatrice of York, and Haley Joel Osment.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Maya Yoshida ranks 1,208 out of 6,048Before him are Chiaki Yamada (1966), Hironobu Kageyama (1961), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Chushiro Hayashi (1920), Iccho Itoh (1945), and Marie Kondo (1984). After him are Fumio Gotō (1884), Maria Ozawa (1986), Chiharu Igaya (1931), Sola Aoi (1983), Akio Kaminaga (1936), and Yasuhito Endō (1980).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Maya Yoshida ranks 219Before him are Hitoshi Sasaki (1891), Shu Kamo (1939), Shoko Hamada (1950), Sanae Mishima (1957), Chiaki Yamada (1966), and Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959). After him are Yasuhito Endō (1980), Masuyo Shiraishi (1963), Katsuyoshi Kuwahara (1944), Tatsuhiko Seta (1952), Yuji Kishioku (1954), and Kuniya Daini (1944).

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