SOCCER PLAYER

Sunil Chhetri

1984 - Today

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Sunil Chhetri (born 3 August 1984) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Indian Super League club Bengaluru and the India national team. He is known for his link-up play, goal scoring abilities, and leadership. He is the third-highest international goalscorer among active players (fourth overall), behind only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, and is also the most-capped player and the all-time top goalscorer of the India national team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sunil Chhetri has received more than 6,944,991 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Sunil Chhetri is the 3,895th most popular soccer player (up from 6,728th in 2019), the 716th most popular biography from India (up from 905th in 2019) and the most popular Indian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.75

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Sunil Chhetris by language

Over the past year Sunil Chhetri has had the most page views in the with 1,353,247 views, followed by Hindi (260,910), and Spanish (39,116). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (827.49%), Amharic (452.94%), and Simple English (150.18%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sunil Chhetri ranks 3,895 out of 21,273. Before him are Jadon Sancho, Alexandru Neagu, Pedro Zaballa, Jan Diddens, Biri Biri, and Shmuel Rosenthal. After him are Kálmán Ihász, Oscarino Costa Silva, Anthony Martial, Marc Millecamps, Marko Elsner, and Hiroshi Ochiai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Sunil Chhetri ranks 101. Before him are Laverne Cox, John David Washington, Vera Zvonareva, Andriy Pyatov, Michelle Ryan, and Eric Trump. After him are Marie Kondo, Kate McKinnon, Katie Melua, Jena Malone, Alberto Aquilani, and Yesung.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sunil Chhetri ranks 716 out of 1,861. Before him are Anita Desai (1937), Veerappan (1952), Ramdev (1965), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Danny Denzongpa (1948), and M. K. Stalin (1953). After him are S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940), Shyam Benegal (1934), P. T. Usha (1964), Feroz Khan (1939), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), and Saeed Jaffrey (1929).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In India

Among soccer players born in India, Sunil Chhetri ranks 1. After him are Harold Walden (1887), Bhaichung Bhutia (1976), Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (1992), Jeje Lalpekhlua (1991), Sandesh Jhingan (1993), Anirudh Thapa (1998), and Pritam Kotal (1993).

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