SOCCER PLAYER

Vahid Halilhodžić

1952 - Today

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Vahid Halilhodžić (Bosnian pronunciation: [ʋȃ:xid xǎlilxodʒitɕ]; born 15 May 1952) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the most controversially successful Bosnian football managers, due to his successful tenure in coaching various national teams yet having problematic relations with his teams and players due to different approaches.Regarded as one of the best Yugoslav players, Halilhodžić had successful playing spells with Velež Mostar and French clubs Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain before retiring in 1987. During that time, he earned 15 full international caps for Yugoslavia and was part of national squads who won the 1978 European Under-21 Championship and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vahid Halilhodžić has received more than 897,720 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Vahid Halilhodžić is the 108th most popular soccer player (down from 61st in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Soccer Player.

Vahid Halilhodžić is most famous for being the director of the movie "No Man's Land" which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Vahid Halilhodžić by language

Over the past year Vahid Halilhodžić has had the most page views in the with 94,496 views, followed by English (70,637), and Japanese (57,097). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (81.09%), Swahili (70.82%), and Simple English (52.81%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 108 out of 21,273. Before him are Eric Cantona, Nándor Hidegkuti, Andriy Shevchenko, Matthias Sindelar, Cafu, and Zito. After him are René Higuita, Kunishige Kamamoto, Leônidas, Hiroto Muraoka, Didier Deschamps, and Jorge Jesus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 29. Before him are Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jeff Goldblum, Cyril Ramaphosa, Oleg Blokhin, Zoran Đinđić, and Laura Branigan. After him are Gary Moore, Douglas Adams, Neil Peart, Bronisław Komorowski, Tomislav Nikolić, and Lee Hsien Loong.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 16 out of 375. Before him are Tvrtko I of Bosnia (1338), Lala Mustafa Pasha (1500), Slobodan Praljak (1945), Vladimir Prelog (1906), Zoran Đinđić (1952), and Biljana Plavšić (1930). After him are Miroslav Blažević (1935), Vukašin of Serbia (1320), Ivica Osim (1941), Meša Selimović (1910), Boris Tadić (1958), and Vojislav Šešelj (1954).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among soccer players born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vahid Halilhodžić ranks 1. After him are Ivica Osim (1941), Milan Galić (1938), Edin Džeko (1986), Branko Stanković (1921), Asim Ferhatović (1933), Savo Milošević (1973), Josip Katalinski (1948), Hasan Salihamidžić (1977), Vlatko Marković (1937), Zlatko Vujović (1958), and Miralem Pjanić (1990).

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