SOCCER PLAYER

Vincent Enyeama

1982 - Today

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Vincent Enyeama (; born 29 August 1982) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Despite his below-average height for a goalkeeper, he is popularly regarded as one of the greatest African goalkeepers of all time and the greatest of his era. During his senior career, which spanned nearly 20 years, Enyeama played for Ibom Stars, Enyimba, Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Bnei Yehuda, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Lille and Maccabi Tel Aviv. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincent Enyeama has received more than 895,076 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Vincent Enyeama is the 5,659th most popular soccer player (down from 4,255th in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Nigerian Soccer Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Vincent Enyeama ranks 5,659 out of 21,273Before him are Fábio Simplício, Alessandro Matri, Ognjen Vukojević, Lars Stindl, Youssef El-Arabi, and Allan. After him are Leandro Trossard, Erjon Bogdani, Petr Němec, Willian José, Yuji Nakazawa, and Leandro Cufré.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1982, Vincent Enyeama ranks 199Before him are Kyoko Fukada, Achille Emaná, Kim Ah-joong, Oguchi Onyewu, Dan Carter, and Miguel Ángel Silvestre. After him are Tatsuya Fujiwara, Stanislav Šesták, Jaycee Chan, Guillermo Coria, Boris Diaw, and Maria Kalesnikava.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, Vincent Enyeama ranks 67 out of 309Before him are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900), Flora Nwapa (1931), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (1962), Omowunmi Sadik (1964), Emmanuel Olisadebe (1978), and Ahmed Musa (1992). After him are Ben Okri (1959), Hauwa Ibrahim (1968), Mohammed Yusuf (1970), Atiku Abubakar (1946), Fiona Fullerton (1956), and Victor Moses (1990).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Nigeria

Among soccer players born in Nigeria, Vincent Enyeama ranks 22Before him are Peter Rufai (1963), Celestine Babayaro (1978), Taye Taiwo (1985), Victor Boniface (2000), Emmanuel Olisadebe (1978), and Ahmed Musa (1992). After him are Victor Moses (1990), Rabiu Afolabi (1980), Wilfred Agbonavbare (1966), Michael Obiku (1968), Odion Ighalo (1989), and John Obi Mikel (1987).