1993 - Today
Raphaël Xavier Varane (born 25 April 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Spanish club Real Madrid and the France national team.Varane previously played for French club Lens and, ahead of the 2010–11 season, began training with the senior team and appeared on the bench in several league matches. Varane made his professional debut in 2010 aged 17, in a league match against Montpellier. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raphaël Varane has received more than 2,767,388 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Raphaël Varane is the 1,291st most popular soccer player (down from 1,114th in 2019), the 3,147th most popular biography from France (down from 2,785th in 2019) and the 56th most popular French Soccer Player.
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Among soccer players, Raphaël Varane ranks 1,291 out of 16,923. Before him are Hamit Altıntop, Gottfried Fuchs, Willy Sagnol, Emmanuel Sanon, Naoemon Shimizu, and Ichiro Hosotani. After him are Ryuichi Sugiyama, Ante Žanetić, Thorbjørn Svenssen, Andrea Barzagli, Pedro Arico Suárez, and Goran Jurić.
1982 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,285
1889 - 1972
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,286
1977 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 1,287
1951 - 2008
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 1,288
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 1,289
1946 - Present
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 1,290
1993 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,291
1941 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,292
1936 - 2014
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,293
1924 - 2011
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,294
1981 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,295
1908 - 1979
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 1,296
1963 - Present
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 1,297
Among people born in 1993, Raphaël Varane ranks 8. Before him are Paulo Dybala, Mia Khalifa, Romelu Lukaku, Paul Pogba, Liam Payne, and Mauro Icardi. After him are Marc Márquez, Julian Draxler, IU, Loris Karius, Samuel Umtiti, and Jan Oblak.
1993 - Present
HPI: 64.88
Rank: 2
1993 - Present
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 3
1993 - Present
HPI: 63.29
Rank: 4
1993 - Present
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 5
1993 - Present
HPI: 62.78
Rank: 6
1993 - Present
HPI: 61.81
Rank: 7
1993 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 8
1993 - Present
HPI: 60.77
Rank: 9
1993 - Present
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 10
1993 - Present
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 11
1993 - Present
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 12
1993 - Present
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 13
1993 - Present
HPI: 59.30
Rank: 14
Among people born in France, Raphaël Varane ranks 3,147 out of 5,234. Before him are Robert Jonquet (1925), Claude Dauphin (1903), Willy Sagnol (1977), Henri Vidal (1919), Jacques Herbrand (1908), and Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (890). After him are Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Jean-Christophe Grangé (1961), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), Jean Stablinski (1932), Anne Dacier (1645), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842).
1925 - 2008
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 3,141
1903 - 1978
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 3,142
1977 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 3,143
1919 - 1959
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 3,144
1908 - 1931
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 3,145
890 - 939
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 3,146
1993 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 3,147
1746 - 1800
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 3,148
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 3,149
1716 - 1803
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,150
1932 - 2007
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,151
1645 - 1720
HPI: 61.77
Rank: 3,152
1842 - 1929
HPI: 61.76
Rank: 3,153
Among soccer players born in France, Raphaël Varane ranks 56. Before him are Ludovic Giuly (1976), Albert Batteux (1919), Sylvain Wiltord (1974), David Ginola (1967), Robert Jonquet (1925), and Willy Sagnol (1977). After him are Samir Nasri (1987), Pierre Sinibaldi (1924), Bernard Lama (1963), Jacques Fatton (1925), Hugo Lloris (1986), and Alex Thépot (1906).
1976 - Present
HPI: 62.29
Rank: 50
1919 - 2003
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 51
1974 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 52
1967 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 53
1925 - 2008
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 54
1977 - Present
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 55
1993 - Present
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 56
1987 - Present
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 57
1924 - 2012
HPI: 61.68
Rank: 58
1963 - Present
HPI: 61.60
Rank: 59
1925 - 2011
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 60
1986 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 61
1906 - 1989
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 62