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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 111,119 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 58 in 2019). Naoki Matsuda is the 5,182nd most popular soccer player (down from 4,501st in 2019), the 1,633rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,428th in 2019) and the 353rd most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Naoki Matsuda ranks 5,182 out of 16,880Before him are Lê Công Vinh, Patrice Rio, Dedé, Mohamed Elneny, Kevin Kampl, and Tetsuji Hashiratani. After him are Jádson, Fan Zhiyi, José Carlos de Almeida, Demis Nikolaidis, Michael Obiku, and Petri Pasanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Naoki Matsuda ranks 266Before him are Daniel Espinosa, Ida Corr, Jérôme Kerviel, Ryuji Sato, Bree Turner, and Jon Abrahams. After him are Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Johann Urb, Fiona Apple, Justo Villar, Clemerson de Araújo Soares, and Eric Balfour. Among people deceased in 2011, Naoki Matsuda ranks 419Before him are Annette Charles, Iztok Puc, Tomoko Kawakami, Gary Speed, Bill Hunter, and Stefan Liv. After him are Pertti Purhonen, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Vladimir Ryzhkin, Pauline Betz, John M. Lounge, and Sada Thompson.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Naoki Matsuda ranks 1,633 out of 6,048Before him are Ryuji Sato (1977), Nisio Isin (1981), Kazuyoshi Funaki (1975), Wakana Yamazaki (1965), Fumiko Orikasa (1974), and Tetsuji Hashiratani (1964). After him are Byron Howard (1968), Yōko Hikasa (1985), Kenji Nagai (1957), Masahiro Fukuda (1966), Masahiko Harada (1968), and Misia (1978).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Naoki Matsuda ranks 353Before him are Takayuki Suzuki (1976), Mihoko Iwaya (1964), Yuko Oita (1969), Bunji Kimura (1944), Katsuyoshi Shinto (1960), and Tetsuji Hashiratani (1964). After him are Masahiro Fukuda (1966), Takeshi Koshida (1960), Yuji Nakazawa (1978), Genki Haraguchi (1991), Takuma Asano (1994), and Masakazu Suzuki (1955).