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Nuno Gomes

1976 - Today

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Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro (born 5 July 1976), known as Nuno Gomes, is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was given the nickname Gomes during childhood after Fernando Gomes, and was regarded as one of the country's most recognisable attacking players in the 1990s and 2000s; he consistently scored for both club and country, and was also capable of being a good link-up player, accumulating a number of assists throughout his career, which was spent mainly with Benfica, for which he netted 166 goals in 398 games over the course of 12 seasons.Gomes represented Portugal in two World Cups and three European Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nuno Gomes has received more than 866,840 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Nuno Gomes is the 830th most popular soccer player (up from 937th in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 204th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.

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  • 52.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Nuno Gomes ranks 830 out of 16,880Before him are Alexandre Pato, Gheorghe Popescu, Luis Artime, Sérgio Conceição, Rainer Bonhof, and Francisco Bru. After him are Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Carlos Kaiser, Diego Godín, Sachi Kagawa, Friedrich Koncilia, and Sven Rydell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Nuno Gomes ranks 39Before him are Fernando Morientes, Naomie Harris, Michelle Monaghan, Alexander Zakharchenko, Wladimir Klitschko, and Anna Faris. After him are Alexander Skarsgård, Jon Dahl Tomasson, Álvaro Recoba, Mauro Camoranesi, Shu Qi, and Jon Bernthal.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Nuno Gomes ranks 211 out of 555Before him are Ricardo Carvalho (1978), Duarte, Duke of Guimarães (1515), António de Andrade (1580), Mariana Alcoforado (1640), Sérgio Conceição (1974), and Jaime, Duke of Braganza (1483). After him are Fernando Gomes (1956), Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal (1768), Jorge Álvares (1401), Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza (1806), José Sócrates (1957), and Afonso, Duke of Porto (1865).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Portugal

Among soccer players born in Portugal, Nuno Gomes ranks 16Before him are Paulo Futre (1966), Nani (1986), Vítor Baía (1969), Pauleta (1973), Ricardo Carvalho (1978), and Sérgio Conceição (1974). After him are Fernando Gomes (1956), Paulo Bento (1969), Fábio Coentrão (1988), Fernando Couto (1969), Humberto Coelho (1950), and José Torres (1938).