1970 - Today
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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Among soccer players, Paulo Sousa ranks 546 out of 16,880. Before 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.
1947 - 2015
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 540
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 541
1974 - Present
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 542
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 543
1966 - Present
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 544
1902 - 1971
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 545
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 546
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 547
1973 - Present
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 548
1936 - 2022
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 549
1934 - 2013
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 550
1984 - Present
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 551
1881 - 1937
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 552
Among people born in 1970, Paulo Sousa ranks 37. Before 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.
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.46
Rank: 31
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 32
1970 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 33
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 34
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 35
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 36
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 37
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 38
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.26
Rank: 39
1970 - Present
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 40
1970 - Present
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 41
1970 - Present
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 42
1970 - 2004
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 43
Among people born in Portugal, Paulo Sousa ranks 162 out of 555. Before 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).
1935 - 2022
HPI: 55.57
Rank: 156
1402 - 1443
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 157
1290 - 1313
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 158
1429 - 1466
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 159
1908 - 1992
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 160
1500 - 1450
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 161
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 162
1872 - 1918
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 163
1929 - 1987
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 164
1347 - 1381
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 165
1165 - 1230
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 166
1480 - 1544
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 167
1468 - 1540
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 168
Among soccer players born in Portugal, Paulo Sousa ranks 9. Before 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).
1972 - Present
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 3
1954 - Present
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 4
1972 - Present
HPI: 59.06
Rank: 5
1946 - 2024
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 6
1983 - Present
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 7
1938 - 2017
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 8
1970 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 9
1966 - Present
HPI: 54.43
Rank: 10
1986 - Present
HPI: 54.02
Rank: 11
1969 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 12
1973 - Present
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 13
1978 - Present
HPI: 53.13
Rank: 14
1974 - Present
HPI: 52.98
Rank: 15