SOCCER PLAYER

Naoki Matsuda

1977 - 2011

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Naoki Matsuda (松田 直樹, Matsuda Naoki, 14 March 1977 – 4 August 2011) was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a central defender for the Japan national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Naoki Matsuda has received more than 117,865 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia. Naoki Matsuda is the 5,921st most popular soccer player (down from 5,181st in 2019), the 1,746th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,629th in 2019) and the 360th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Naoki Matsuda ranks 5,921 out of 21,273. Before him are Jonas Gonçalves Oliveira, Dumitru Stângaciu, Sugao Kambe, Adnan Januzaj, Juan Antonio Señor, and Yuya Osako. After him are Antonio Di Gennaro, Jirès Kembo Ekoko, Bart Goor, Sergio Reguilón, Víctor Ibarbo, and Jonás Gutiérrez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Naoki Matsuda ranks 256. Before him are Scoot McNairy, Marco Silva, Choi Kang-hee, Iva Majoli, Alexander Morozevich, and Narain Karthikeyan. After him are Juan Pablo Raba, Josh Stewart, Félix Sánchez, Jason Reitman, Felix van Groeningen, and Stuart Price. Among people deceased in 2011, Naoki Matsuda ranks 450. Before him are Dietrich Stobbe, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Dick King-Smith, Khamis Gaddafi, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and Doris Belack. After him are Jack Layton, Elaine Stewart, Bill Hunter, H. R. F. Keating, Kurt Lundquist, and John M. Lounge.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoki Matsuda ranks 1,746 out of 6,245. Before him are One (1986), Yumi Watanabe (1970), Naohiro Ikeda (1940), Toshiya Miura (1963), Sugao Kambe (1961), and Yuya Osako (1990). After him are Takanohana Kōji (1972), Nobutoshi Canna (1968), Yoshinori Kitase (1966), Sakura Miyawaki (1998), Byron Howard (1968), and Sabu (1964).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Naoki Matsuda ranks 360. Before him are Takashi Mizunuma (1960), Osamu Maeda (1965), Yumi Watanabe (1970), Toshiya Miura (1963), Sugao Kambe (1961), and Yuya Osako (1990). After him are Genki Haraguchi (1991), Yuriko Shima (1959), Yasuharu Kurata (1963), Nobuyuki Kojima (1966), Takashi Inui (1988), and Nobuhiro Takeda (1967).

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