SOCCER PLAYER

Rubén Baraja

1975 - Today

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Rubén Baraja Vegas (Spanish pronunciation: [ruˈβem baˈɾaxa]; born 11 July 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer, currently manager of Valencia. A complete central midfielder with good tackling, technique, and offensive qualities, together with accurate passing and goalscoring ability, he played mostly for Valencia during a 17-year professional career, being an essential figure in five of the club's major titles, which included two La Liga championships.Baraja was also a consistent part of the Spain national team for five years, appearing in one World Cup and one European Championship and winning 43 caps. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rubén Baraja has received more than 399,702 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Rubén Baraja is the 1,847th most popular soccer player (up from 2,568th in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,421st in 2019) and the 152nd most popular Spanish Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rubén Barajas by language

Over the past year Rubén Baraja has had the most page views in the with 102,721 views, followed by Spanish (100,785), and Russian (18,619). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (98.38%), Southern Azerbaijani (96.14%), and Ukrainian (92.17%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rubén Baraja ranks 1,847 out of 21,273. Before him are Carvalho Leite, Shizuo Miyama, Jacques Simon, Graeme Souness, Guillermo Escalada, and Eiður Guðjohnsen. After him are Marcos Alonso, Ado, Don Revie, Aldo Donati, Zinho, and Ladislav Ženíšek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1975, Rubén Baraja ranks 77. Before him are Daron Malakian, Walid Regragui, Veselin Topalov, Jamie Oliver, Brandon Sanderson, and Aron Ralston. After him are Andrea Agnelli, Míchel, Estas Tonne, Igor Dodon, Cécile de France, and Dario Šimić.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Rubén Baraja ranks 1,229 out of 3,355. Before him are Carmen Martín Gaite (1925), Ricardo Blázquez (1942), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), Isabel Coixet (1960), Valeriano Weyler (1838), and Nicolás Monardes (1508). After him are Marcos Alonso (1959), Paco Tous (1964), Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (1756), Francisco Cepeda (1906), Nacho Vidal (1973), and Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas (1859).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Spain

Among soccer players born in Spain, Rubén Baraja ranks 152. Before him are Enrique Mateos (1934), Luis María Echeberría (1940), César Azpilicueta (1989), Ramón Gil (1897), Silvestre Igoa (1920), and Miguel Ángel Lotina (1957). After him are Marcos Alonso (1959), Míchel (1975), Diego López (1981), Agustín Sauto Arana (1908), Brahim Díaz (1999), and Chendo (1961).

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