SOCCER PLAYER

Medhi Benatia

1987 - Today

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Medhi Amine El Mouttaqi Benatia (Arabic: المهدي أمين المتقي بن عطية; French pronunciation: [mɛdi bɛnatia]; born 17 April 1987) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre-back, who is currently the sporting director of Ligue 1 club Marseille. Benatia is well known for his tenures throughout France, Italy, and Germany, he represented Morocco at the international level, making 66 international appearances, and most notably captained them to their first World Cup in twenty years. Benatia began his career at Marseille, being loaned out to Tours and Lorient before joining Clermont in 2008. Two years later he joined Udinese, spending three seasons there before transferring to Roma. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Medhi Benatia has received more than 1,969,793 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Medhi Benatia is the 3,001st most popular soccer player (down from 1,914th in 2019), the 4,483rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,835th in 2019) and the 150th most popular French Soccer Player.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Medhi Benatia ranks 3,001 out of 21,273. Before him are Sebastian Giovinco, Joe Hart, Pedri, Henrik Larsen, Alain Geiger, and Paul Ince. After him are Sid Kimpton, Konstantin Beskov, Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, István Géczi, Jan van Beveren, and Željko Matuš.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1987, Medhi Benatia ranks 71. Before him are Davide Astori, Miloš Teodosić, LiSA, Martín Cáceres, Sebastian Giovinco, and Joe Hart. After him are Jérémy Ménez, María Valverde, Miles Teller, Moon Geun-young, Jang Keun-suk, and Lee Seung-gi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Medhi Benatia ranks 4,483 out of 6,770. Before him are Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769), Henry Padovani (1952), Edmund Dulac (1882), Noémie Lvovsky (1964), Léon Gautier (1832), and Robert Charpentier (1916). After him are Luc Ferry (1951), Roger Planchon (1931), Raymond Depardon (1942), Robert Budzynski (1940), Jacques Barrot (1937), and Victor Duruy (1811).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In France

Among soccer players born in France, Medhi Benatia ranks 150. Before him are Alfred Aston (1912), Alain Perrin (1956), Bruno Bellone (1962), Adil Rami (1985), Georges Bereta (1946), and Édouard Mendy (1992). After him are Robert Budzynski (1940), Aurélien Tchouaméni (2000), Marouane Chamakh (1984), Mikaël Silvestre (1977), Laurent Koscielny (1985), and Jérémy Ménez (1987).

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