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SOCCER PLAYER

Ulf Kirsten

1965 - Today

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Ulf Kirsten (born 4 December 1965) is a German former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed Der Schwatte (dialect for Der Schwarze, 'The Black One'), he is the first player in history to reach a total 100 caps playing with two different national teams (first for East Germany, then Reunified Germany). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulf Kirsten has received more than 350,832 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ulf Kirsten is the 1,347th most popular soccer player (up from 1,355th in 2019), the 3,452nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,178th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Soccer Player.

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  • 350k

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  • 49.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Ulf Kirsten ranks 1,347 out of 16,880. Before him are Mehmet Scholl, Martin Dahlin, Umberto Caligaris, Roque Santa Cruz, Juan Mata, and Teodoro Fernández. After him are Dries Mertens, Sandro Salvadore, Hannes Löhr, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Bigode, and Hristo Bonev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Ulf Kirsten ranks 127. Before him are Stefano Domenicali, Frédéric Beigbeder, Marcelino García Toral, Uwe Boll, Amanda Tapping, and Shinji Mikami. After him are Sergi López, Mario Lemieux, Yuki Kajiura, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Yoshiki, and Valérie Trierweiler.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulf Kirsten ranks 3,452 out of 6,142. Before him are Josef Frings (1887), Woldemar, Prince of Lippe (1824), Otto Finsch (1839), Sarah Kirsch (1935), Mehmet Scholl (1970), and John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596). After him are Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), Hannes Löhr (1942), Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1655), Adolf Martens (1850), Robert Hübner (1948), and Rolf Hoppe (1930).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Ulf Kirsten ranks 90. Before him are Hansi Müller (1957), Dieter Hoeneß (1953), Willi Schulz (1938), Nuri Şahin (1988), Horst Köppel (1948), and Mehmet Scholl (1970). After him are Hannes Löhr (1942), Horst Blankenburg (1947), Werner Liebrich (1927), Heinz Flohe (1948), Klaus Fichtel (1944), and Hans-Jörg Butt (1974).

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