SOCCER PLAYER

Rui Costa

1972 - Today

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Rui Manuel César Costa (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁuj ˈkɔʃtɐ]; born 29 March 1972) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club S.L. Benfica. He also succeeded Luís Filipe Vieira as president of the club's SAD board of directors. Nicknamed "The Maestro", Costa spent the majority of his football career with Benfica in Portugal and Fiorentina and AC Milan in Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rui Costa has received more than 2,069,501 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Rui Costa is the 225th most popular soccer player, the 92nd most popular biography from Portugal (up from 113th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Portuguese Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Rui Costas by language

Over the past year Rui Costa has had the most page views in the with 337,259 views, followed by Italian (102,857), and Portuguese (98,328). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Wu Chinese (988.00%), Simple English (494.62%), and Hakka (200.00%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Rui Costa ranks 225 out of 21,273. Before him are Dunga, Philippe Troussier, Josip Skoblar, Radomir Antić, Wolfgang Overath, and Alessandro Costacurta. After him are Zbigniew Boniek, Dani Alves, Gaetano Scirea, Luís Figo, Marcel Desailly, and Diego Forlán.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Rui Costa ranks 18. Before him are Lilian Thuram, Jude Law, Pedro Sánchez, Dwayne Johnson, Vanessa Paradis, and Queen Letizia of Spain. After him are Luís Figo, Wentworth Miller, Sofía Vergara, Maia Sandu, Tarkan, and Busta Rhymes.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Rui Costa ranks 92 out of 633. Before him are António de Spínola (1910), Beatrice of Portugal (1373), Maria Isabel of Braganza (1797), Óscar Carmona (1869), Berengaria of Portugal (1198), and Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (1504). After him are Luís Figo (1972), Aristides de Sousa Mendes (1885), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), and Isabel of Coimbra (1432).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Portugal

Among soccer players born in Portugal, Rui Costa ranks 4. Before him are Cristiano Ronaldo (1985), Fernando Santos (1954), and Jorge Jesus (1954). After him are Luís Figo (1972), Ricardo Quaresma (1983), Artur Jorge (1946), Félix Mourinho (1938), Américo Lopes (1933), Paulo Futre (1966), Vítor Baía (1969), and Fernando Gomes (1956).

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