SOCCER PLAYER

Nemanja Vidić

1981 - Today

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Nemanja Vidić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Видић, Serbian pronunciation: [němaɲa ʋǐːditɕ]; born 21 October 1981) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Widely considered to be one of the greatest defenders in history, Vidić is best known for his time at Manchester United, where he won 15 trophies and served as club captain. He is one of only four players to win the Premier League Player of the Season award twice, alongside Thierry Henry, Kevin De Bruyne and Cristiano Ronaldo.After establishing himself at Red Star Belgrade during the early 2000s, Vidić moved to Spartak Moscow in the summer of 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nemanja Vidić has received more than 3,700,630 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Nemanja Vidić is the 665th most popular soccer player (up from 868th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 137th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Serbian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Nemanja Vidić by language

Over the past year Nemanja Vidić has had the most page views in the with 448,268 views, followed by Russian (67,200), and Italian (49,850). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (325.92%), Malagasy (95.90%), and Turkish (82.74%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nemanja Vidić ranks 665 out of 21,273Before him are Arsenio Erico, Alfredo Foni, Hércules Brito Ruas, Fernando Gomes, Carlo Mazzone, and Enrico Albertosi. After him are Antonio Cabrini, Tite, Enzo Scifo, Hajime Moriyasu, Imre Schlosser, and Mario Mandžukić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Nemanja Vidić ranks 22Before him are Justin Timberlake, Chris Evans, Paris Hilton, Nayib Bukele, Javier Saviola, and Elijah Wood. After him are Dimitar Berbatov, Andrey Arshavin, Serdar Berdimuhamedow, LP, Felipe Massa, and Lee Dong-wook.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Nemanja Vidić ranks 117 out of 661Before him are Svetozar Marković (1846), Monica Seles (1973), Dimitrije Ljotić (1891), Mutimir of Serbia (830), Vlastimir (805), and Svetozar Gligorić (1923). After him are Ilija Garašanin (1812), Jovan Divjak (1937), Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia (1447), Tommy Lapid (1931), Stefan Branković (1417), and Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia (1928).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Serbia

Among soccer players born in Serbia, Nemanja Vidić ranks 8Before him are Bora Milutinović (1944), Radomir Antić (1948), Rajko Mitić (1922), Vujadin Boškov (1931), Miloš Milutinović (1933), and Velibor Vasović (1939). After him are Dejan Stanković (1978), Todor Veselinović (1930), Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), Vladica Popović (1935), Bora Kostić (1930), and Ivan Bek (1909).