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Paulo Sousa

1970 - Today

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Paulo Manuel Carvalho de Sousa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpawlu ˈsozɐ]; born 30 August 1970) is a Portuguese football manager and former professional player who played as a defensive midfielder. Starting his career at Benfica, he also represented Sporting CP in his country, where he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 117 matches and three goals in five years. From there onwards, he competed mainly in Italy and Germany, winning the Champions League with Juventus and Borussia Dortmund and the Intercontinental Cup with the latter side. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paulo Sousa has received more than 1,616,377 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Paulo Sousa is the 546th most popular soccer player (up from 1,014th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Portugal (up from 209th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.

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  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Paulo Sousa ranks 546 out of 16,880Before him are Tadahiko Ueda, Usaburo Hidaka, Zé Roberto, Adelardo Rodríguez, Dejan Savićević, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki. After him are Emmanuel Petit, Robert Pires, Leonel Sánchez, Masao Uchino, Giorgio Chiellini, and Hugo Meisl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Paulo Sousa ranks 37Before him are John Frusciante, Alan Shearer, Tonya Harding, Izabella Scorupco, Frank de Boer, and Yann Tiersen. After him are Emmanuel Petit, Melissa McCarthy, Christian Karembeu, Roberto Di Matteo, Gabriela Sabatini, and Marco Pantani.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Paulo Sousa ranks 162 out of 555Before him are Paula Rego (1935), Ferdinand the Holy Prince (1402), Constance of Portugal (1290), Peter, Constable of Portugal (1429), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908), and Nuno Gonçalves (1500). After him are Sidónio Pais (1872), Zeca Afonso (1929), Beatrice of Portugal (1347), Pelagio Galvani (1165), Pedro Damiano (1480), and Tomé Pires (1468).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Portugal

Among soccer players born in Portugal, Paulo Sousa ranks 9Before him are Luís Figo (1972), Jorge Jesus (1954), Rui Costa (1972), Artur Jorge (1946), Ricardo Quaresma (1983), and Félix Mourinho (1938). After him are Paulo Futre (1966), Nani (1986), Vítor Baía (1969), Pauleta (1973), Ricardo Carvalho (1978), and Sérgio Conceição (1974).