SOCCER PLAYER

Papa Bouba Diop

1978 - 2020

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Papa Bouba Diop (28 January 1978 – 29 November 2020) was a Senegalese professional footballer. His preferred position was as a defensive midfielder, but he could also play as a centre-back, where he played at Lens. Diop was considered a physically strong and aggressive player. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Papa Bouba Diop has received more than 1,521,728 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Papa Bouba Diop is the 2,255th most popular soccer player (up from 2,356th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Senegal (up from 19th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Senegalese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Papa Bouba Diop ranks 2,255 out of 21,273. Before him are Kuniya Daini, Adolf Urban, Ivan Toplak, Ramón Muttis, Hisao Sekiguchi, and Alberto Gallardo. After him are Ahn Jung-hwan, Akemi Iwata, Ernst Albrecht, Miroslav Đukić, Lars Olsen, and Cuauhtémoc Blanco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Papa Bouba Diop ranks 70. Before him are Yiruma, Alexandra Maria Lara, Tomáš Ujfaluši, Anthony Mackie, Marina Ovsyannikova, and Lila Tretikov. After him are Selma Ergeç, Jamie Carragher, Usher, Louis Saha, Wes Bentley, and Eva Kaili. Among people deceased in 2020, Papa Bouba Diop ranks 352. Before him are Adalet Ağaoğlu, Bobby Morrow, Òscar Ribas Reig, Goran Paskaljević, Marc Fumaroli, and Mike Resnick. After him are Italo De Zan, Ashley Cooper, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Hau Pei-tsun, Maria Itkina, and Martin Birch.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Papa Bouba Diop ranks 18 out of 138. Before him are Mariama Bâ (1929), Jean-Pierre Adams (1948), Lamine Diack (1933), Souleymane Sané (1961), Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921), and Aliou Cissé (1976). After him are Mame Madior Boye (1940), Mamadou Dia (1910), Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Safi Faye (1943), Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), and El Hadji Diouf (1981).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Senegal

Among soccer players born in Senegal, Papa Bouba Diop ranks 7. Before him are Patrick Vieira (1976), Sadio Mané (1992), Patrice Evra (1981), Jean-Pierre Adams (1948), Souleymane Sané (1961), and Aliou Cissé (1976). After him are El Hadji Diouf (1981), Ibrahim Ba (1973), Guirane N'Daw (1984), Khalilou Fadiga (1974), Ali Dia (1965), and Idrissa Gueye (1989).

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