SOCCER PLAYER

Mikael Forssell

1981 - Today

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Mikael Kaj Forssell (born 15 March 1981) is a Finnish former professional footballer who played as a striker. After his playing career, he has also worked as a coach.Forssell began his professional career in 1997 for HJK, having progressed through the team's youth teams, but he only remained at the club for a single season, making 17 league appearances, before he moved to England to join Chelsea in 1998. He never broke into the Chelsea team, making 33 league appearances in seven years, and spent two loan spells at Crystal Palace, one at Borussia Mönchengladbach, and two at Birmingham City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikael Forssell has received more than 492,137 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikael Forssell is the 7,480th most popular soccer player (down from 6,022nd in 2019), the 5,960th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,134th in 2019) and the 466th most popular German Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 490k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 38.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mikael Forssells by language

Over the past year Mikael Forssell has had the most page views in the with 45,291 views, followed by Finnish (20,282), and German (5,549). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (115.54%), Southern Azerbaijani (114.57%), and Irish (96.08%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mikael Forssell ranks 7,480 out of 21,273. Before him are Luca Fusi, Germán Denis, Jaloliddin Masharipov, Giacomo Raspadori, Róger Flores, and Aron Gunnarsson. After him are Lucas Silva, Dan Calichman, Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Mixu Paatelainen, Vincent Janssen, and Igor Simutenkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Mikael Forssell ranks 373. Before him are Momir Ilić, Maxim Iglinsky, Juan José Cobo, Julien Benneteau, David Lafata, and Germán Denis. After him are Vitalii Kim, Synyster Gates, Shizuka Arakawa, Ali Abbasi, Allison Tolman, and Murilo Endres.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Mikael Forssell ranks 5,960 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Rogowski (1986), Hubertus Heil (1972), Anja Niedringhaus (1965), Antje Harvey (1967), Nico Schulz (1993), and Eberhard Rösch (1954). After him are Mirko Slomka (1967), Frank-Peter Roetsch (1964), Tetsuya Kakihara (1982), Kathrin Boron (1969), Diego Demme (1991), and Martin Wagner (1968).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Mikael Forssell ranks 466. Before him are Patrick Owomoyela (1979), Kaan Ayhan (1994), Nadiem Amiri (1996), Vincenzo Grifo (1993), Josip Stanišić (2000), and Nico Schulz (1993). After him are Diego Demme (1991), Martin Wagner (1968), Malick Thiaw (2001), Mike Hanke (1983), Max Kruse (1988), and Daniel Caligiuri (1988).

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