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Nikola Žigić

1980 - Today

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Nikola Žigić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Жигић, IPA: [nǐkola ʒǐːɡitɕ]; born 25 September 1980) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre forward. Žigić was born in Bačka Topola, in what was then SFR Yugoslavia. He began playing football as a youngster with AIK Bačka Topola, and scored 68 goals from 76 first-team matches over a three-year period in the third tier of Yugoslav football. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikola Žigić has received more than 694,922 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Nikola Žigić is the 3,630th most popular soccer player (up from 3,780th in 2019), the 287th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 268th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Serbian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nikola Žigić ranks 3,630 out of 21,273Before him are Paolo Mazza, Mariano Arrate, Giovani dos Santos, Alfons Van Brandt, Pascal Zuberbühler, and Nicola Berti. After him are Nasko Sirakov, Giorgos Koudas, Toru Yoshikawa, Oleg Romantsev, Fredy Guarín, and Carmel Busuttil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Nikola Žigić ranks 104Before him are Ricardo Oliveira, Didier Zokora, Kareena Kapoor, Alejandro Valverde, Alistair Overeem, and Nick Carter. After him are Eliza Dushku, Juan Carlos Navarro, Katrine Lunde, Ryōko Hirosue, Chris Owen, and Laura Prepon.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Nikola Žigić ranks 287 out of 661Before him are Milorad Mažić (1973), Jovan Miladinović (1939), Saša Obradović (1969), Branko Milanović (1953), Zoran Živković (1945), and Branka Katić (1970). After him are Mira Alečković (1924), Lazăr Sfera (1909), Slaviša Žungul (1954), Nikola Jokić (1995), Dušan Vlahović (2000), and Ljubiša Stevanović (1910).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Serbia

Among soccer players born in Serbia, Nikola Žigić ranks 60Before him are Vojislav Melić (1940), Lajos Szűcs (1943), Slaviša Jokanović (1968), Milorad Arsenijević (1906), Milinko Pantić (1966), and Jovan Miladinović (1939). After him are Lazăr Sfera (1909), Slaviša Žungul (1954), Dušan Vlahović (2000), Ljubiša Stevanović (1910), Ivica Brzić (1941), and Blagoje Paunović (1947).