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Tony Yeboah

1966 - Today

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Anthony Yeboah (born 6 June 1966) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is considered one of the most prominent and prolific goal scorers in Ghanaian and African football history and gained a reputation for scoring spectacular goals which often featured in Goal of the Month or Goal of the Season competitions, often celebrated by wagging his index finger towards the crowd.Yeboah is most noted for his time at European clubs 1. FC Saarbrücken, Eintracht Frankfurt, Leeds United and Hamburger SV during the 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Yeboah has received more than 877,152 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Tony Yeboah is the 4,675th most popular soccer player (down from 2,507th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Ghana (down from 17th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ghanaian Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tony Yeboahs by language

Over the past year Tony Yeboah has had the most page views in the with 108,053 views, followed by German (45,867), and Italian (11,755). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hausa (368.10%), Galician (87.83%), and Malagasy (87.31%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tony Yeboah ranks 4,675 out of 21,273. Before him are Rodrigo Tabata, Viktor Matviyenko, Quiterio Olmedo, Choi Dae-shik, Marcell Jansen, and Ivan Yaremchuk. After him are John Metgod, Mounir El Hamdaoui, Kamil Glik, Martin Petrov, Eugenio Bersellini, and Nils Middelboe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Tony Yeboah ranks 314. Before him are Ali Boumnijel, Néstor Lorenzo, Andrea Berg, Roberto Gualtieri, Zoran Savić, and Sami Bouajila. After him are Christian Kracht, Aigars Kalvītis, Guy Delisle, Jerry Cantrell, Benito Archundia, and Traylor Howard.

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In Ghana

Among people born in Ghana, Tony Yeboah ranks 32 out of 162. Before him are Gerald Asamoah (1978), Ibrahim Sunday (1944), Hilla Limann (1934), Alphonso Davies (2000), Stephen Appiah (1980), and Akwasi Afrifa (1936). After him are Edward Akufo-Addo (1906), Richard Baawobr (1959), Kwadwo Asamoah (1988), Karim Abdul Razak (1956), Derek Boateng (1983), and Ayi Kwei Armah (1939).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ghana

Among soccer players born in Ghana, Tony Yeboah ranks 11. Before him are Sulley Muntari (1984), Asamoah Gyan (1985), Gerald Asamoah (1978), Ibrahim Sunday (1944), Alphonso Davies (2000), and Stephen Appiah (1980). After him are Kwadwo Asamoah (1988), Karim Abdul Razak (1956), Derek Boateng (1983), Owusu Benson (1977), James Kwesi Appiah (1960), and Christian Atsu (1992).

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