1980 - Today
Xavier Hernández Creus (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈʃaβjeɾ eɾˈnandeθ]; born 25 January 1980), also known as Xavi Hernández ([ˈʃaβjeɾˈnandeθ]) or simply Xavi ([ˈʃaβi]), is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the manager of La Liga club Barcelona. Widely considered one of the greatest midfielders of all time, Xavi was renowned for his passing, vision, ball retention, and positioning. Xavi joined La Masia, the Barcelona youth academy, at age 11, and made his first-team debut against Mallorca in August 1998, age 18. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xavi has received more than 8,659,209 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Xavi is the 96th most popular soccer player (up from 189th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Spain (up from 335th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Spanish Soccer Player.
Xavi is most famous for being a Spanish footballer. He played for Barcelona and the Spanish national team.
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Among soccer players, Xavi ranks 96 out of 16,880. Before him are Roberto Mancini, René Higuita, Udo Lattek, Leo Beenhakker, Rob Rensenbrink, and Kakuichi Mimura. After him are Franco Baresi, Fritz Walter, Zoltán Czibor, José Nasazzi, Oleg Blokhin, and Peter Schmeichel.
1964 - Present
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 90
1966 - Present
HPI: 63.32
Rank: 91
1935 - 2015
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 92
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 93
1947 - 2020
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 94
1931 - 2022
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 95
1980 - Present
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 96
1960 - Present
HPI: 63.06
Rank: 97
1920 - 2002
HPI: 62.98
Rank: 98
1929 - 1997
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 99
1901 - 1968
HPI: 62.90
Rank: 100
1952 - Present
HPI: 62.87
Rank: 101
1963 - Present
HPI: 62.81
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1980, Xavi ranks 2. Before him is Ronaldinho. After him are Kim Kardashian, Eva Green, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal, Macaulay Culkin, Venus Williams, Christina Aguilera, Steven Gerrard, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Chris Pine.
1980 - Present
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 1
1980 - Present
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 2
1980 - Present
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 3
1980 - Present
HPI: 60.01
Rank: 4
1980 - Present
HPI: 59.64
Rank: 5
1980 - Present
HPI: 59.21
Rank: 6
1980 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 7
1980 - Present
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 8
1980 - Present
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 9
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 10
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 11
1980 - Present
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 12
Among people born in Spain, Xavi ranks 230 out of 2,932. Before him are Petronilla of Aragon (1136), Felipe González (1942), Juan Pujol García (1912), Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi (650), Jordi Savall (1941), and Charles II, Duke of Parma (1799). After him are Alfonso IX of León (1171), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona (1114), Hernando de Soto (1500), Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (1402), and Kane (1967).
1136 - 1173
HPI: 63.31
Rank: 224
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 225
1912 - 1988
HPI: 63.24
Rank: 226
650 - 732
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 227
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 228
1799 - 1883
HPI: 63.10
Rank: 229
1980 - Present
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 230
1171 - 1230
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 231
1518 - 1561
HPI: 63.04
Rank: 232
1114 - 1162
HPI: 63.02
Rank: 233
1500 - 1542
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 234
1402 - 1445
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 235
1967 - Present
HPI: 62.96
Rank: 236
Among soccer players born in Spain, Xavi ranks 6. Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste (1895), Luis Suárez (1935), Francisco Gento (1933), Ricardo Zamora (1901), and Miguel Muñoz (1922). After him are Carles Puyol (1978), Andrés Iniesta (1984), Telmo Zarra (1921), Carles Rexach (1947), Luis Enrique (1970), and Iker Casillas (1981).
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 1
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.22
Rank: 2
1933 - 2022
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 3
1901 - 1978
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 4
1922 - 1990
HPI: 63.44
Rank: 5
1980 - Present
HPI: 63.07
Rank: 6
1978 - Present
HPI: 62.08
Rank: 7
1984 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 8
1921 - 2006
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 9
1947 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 10
1970 - Present
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 11
1981 - Present
HPI: 61.17
Rank: 12