SOCCER PLAYER

Paolo Di Canio

1968 - Today

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Paolo Di Canio (born 9 July 1968) is an Italian former professional footballer and manager. During his playing career he made over 500 league appearances and scored over one hundred goals as a forward. He primarily played as a deep-lying forward, but he could also play as an attacking midfielder, or as a winger. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paolo Di Canio has received more than 2,601,141 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Paolo Di Canio is the 952nd most popular soccer player (down from 816th in 2019), the 2,423rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,338th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Italian Soccer Player.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Paolo Di Canio ranks 952 out of 21,273Before him are Koichi Oita, Tomoyasu Asaoka, Tim, Ferenc Szusza, Bernd Bransch, and Adrian Mutu. After him are Joseph Alcazar, Herbert Chapman, Hulk, Kalle Svensson, Juan Ramón Verón, and Kikuzo Kisaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Paolo Di Canio ranks 67Before him are Stefan Effenberg, Patricia Arquette, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Thom Yorke, Euronymous, and Helena Christensen. After him are César Sampaio, Damon Albarn, Michael Kiske, Toni Kukoč, Robert Jarni, and Margrethe Vestager.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Paolo Di Canio ranks 2,423 out of 5,161Before him are Enrico Betti (1823), Massimo d'Azeglio (1798), Agostino Depretis (1813), Alessandro Blasetti (1900), Pietro Lando (1462), and Emma of Italy (null). After him are Giovanni Giocondo (1433), Geki (1937), Ottavio Rinuccini (1562), Catherine of Valois–Courtenay (1301), Sergio Rossi (1935), and Carlo Allioni (1728).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Italy

Among soccer players born in Italy, Paolo Di Canio ranks 82Before him are Francesco Toldo (1971), Franco Causio (1949), Ferruccio Valcareggi (1919), Ugo Locatelli (1916), Dino Baggio (1971), and Mauro Tassotti (1960). After him are Marco Verratti (1992), Giancarlo Antognoni (1954), Attilio Ferraris (1904), Pietro Vierchowod (1959), Eraldo Monzeglio (1906), and Guido Masetti (1907).