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Rigobert Song

1976 - Today

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Rigobert Song Bahanag (born 1 July 1976) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who was most recently the manager of the Cameroon national team. Known for his defensive skills, Song usually played as a centre-back, but could also operate at right-back. Internationally, he played at a record eight Africa Cup of Nations tournaments and served as captain in five (the ones he was not captain for were South Africa 1996, Burkina Faso 1998 and Angola 2010), a record, and holds the record of most consecutive games played in the tournament with 35 first team games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rigobert Song has received more than 1,563,729 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Rigobert Song is the 1,611th most popular soccer player (up from 1,769th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Cameroon (down from 13th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Cameroonian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rigobert Songs by language

Over the past year Rigobert Song has had the most page views in the with 238,750 views, followed by French (138,005), and Arabic (25,495). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (319.68%), Egyptian Arabic (109.03%), and Malagasy (82.72%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rigobert Song ranks 1,611 out of 21,273. Before him are Kuniharu Nakamoto, Jørn Andersen, Victor Osimhen, Silas Pereira, Miralem Pjanić, and László Cseh. After him are Josep Escolà, Arne Brustad, Antal Szalay, Zequinha, Maxime Bossis, and František Veselý.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Rigobert Song ranks 70. Before him are Dominic Monaghan, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Sally Hawkins, Juan Pablo Sorín, Paz Vega, and Isla Fisher. After him are Jan Koum, Nwankwo Kanu, Mark Webber, Tuomas Holopainen, Juliano Belletti, and Tim Duncan.

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In Cameroon

Among people born in Cameroon, Rigobert Song ranks 14 out of 156. Before him are Thomas N'Kono (1956), André Onana (1996), Patrick M'Boma (1970), Marc-Vivien Foé (1975), Achille Mbembe (1957), and Joseph-Antoine Bell (1954). After him are Joseph Ngute (1954), Samuel Umtiti (1993), Mongo Beti (1932), Vincent Aboubakar (1992), Philémon Yang (1947), and François Omam-Biyik (1966).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Cameroon

Among soccer players born in Cameroon, Rigobert Song ranks 8. Before him are Samuel Eto'o (1981), Thomas N'Kono (1956), André Onana (1996), Patrick M'Boma (1970), Marc-Vivien Foé (1975), and Joseph-Antoine Bell (1954). After him are Samuel Umtiti (1993), Vincent Aboubakar (1992), François Omam-Biyik (1966), Jacques Songo'o (1964), Alex Song (1987), and Geremi (1978).

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