SOCCER PLAYER

Olaf Thon

1966 - Today

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Olaf Thon (born 1 May 1966) is a German former professional football player and coach. Mainly a central midfielder, Thon's 19-year professional career was solely associated to Schalke 04 and Bayern Munich, having amassed more than 500 official games and 100 goals for both combined. Later in his career, Thon played as a sweeper. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olaf Thon has received more than 213,741 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Olaf Thon is the 2,466th most popular soccer player (up from 2,695th in 2019), the 4,384th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,250th in 2019) and the 181st most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 210k

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  • 55.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Olaf Thon ranks 2,466 out of 21,273. Before him are Zdravko Rajkov, Glenn Strömberg, Rudi Assauer, Dražen Ladić, Amedeo Carboni, and Léopold Anoul. After him are Hwang Sun-hong, Antonín Vodička, Roger Marche, Joe Fagan, Adolf Šimperský, and Rafinha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Olaf Thon ranks 159. Before him are Benedicta Boccoli, Mark Gatiss, Maroš Šefčovič, Matt Reeves, Urs Fischer, and Neal McDonough. After him are Christian Kern, Ramón Medina Bello, Indira Radić, Trine Hattestad, Linn Ullmann, and Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Olaf Thon ranks 4,384 out of 7,253. Before him are Maria Schrader (1965), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Berthold Delbrück (1842), Rudi Assauer (1944), and Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756). After him are Ralph Siegel (1945), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885), Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Marianne Hoppe (1909), and Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Olaf Thon ranks 181. Before him are Rainer Zobel (1948), Thomas Linke (1969), Emre Can (1994), Stephan Beckenbauer (1968), Carsten Jancker (1974), and Rudi Assauer (1944). After him are Günter Bernard (1939), Ludwig Goldbrunner (1908), Reinhold Münzenberg (1909), Sven Ulreich (1988), Ümit Davala (1973), and Raimond Aumann (1963).

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