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Yuichi Nishimura

1972 - Today

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Yuichi Nishimura (西村 雄一, Nishimura Yūichi, born 17 April 1972) is a Japanese football referee. He has refereed in the Japanese J. League Division 1 since 1999 and has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004. He refereed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he was appointed to several prestigious matches, including as fourth official on the final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuichi Nishimura has received more than 90,207 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuichi Nishimura is the 34th most popular referee (up from 37th in 2019), the 1,328th most popular biography from Japan (up from 1,439th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Referee.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yuichi Nishimuras by language

Over the past year Yuichi Nishimura has had the most page views in the with 16,219 views, followed by Arabic (10,910), and English (9,116). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latvian (130.73%), Egyptian Arabic (99.77%), and Turkish (47.25%)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Yuichi Nishimura ranks 34 out of 147. Before him are Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Pedro Proença, Nikolay Latyshev, Frank De Bleeckere, Ľuboš Micheľ, and Cüneyt Çakır. After him are Milorad Mažić, Felix Brych, Jorge Larrionda, Pierluigi Pairetto, Stéphanie Frappart, and Kim Milton Nielsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Yuichi Nishimura ranks 185. Before him are Markus Rühl, Judith Godrèche, Mark Hoppus, Alfonso Pérez, Mark Schwarzer, and Mark Owen. After him are Dana Vespoli, Gurban Gurbanov, Vitaly Scherbo, Alessandro Nivola, Markus Babbel, and Julie Gayet.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yuichi Nishimura ranks 1,328 out of 6,245. Before him are Nobuo Fujishima (1950), Kōkichi Tsuburaya (1940), Mitsunori Fujiguchi (1949), Hiromi Tsuru (1960), Tarō Kōno (1963), and Maria Ozawa (1986). After him are Jiro Sato (1908), Fumio Gotō (1884), Noboru Terada (1917), Kazuhiko Nishijima (1926), Keiko Awaji (1933), and Kaori Momoi (1951).

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Among REFEREES In Japan

Among referees born in Japan, Yuichi Nishimura ranks 1. After him are Toru Kamikawa (1963), Ryuji Sato (1977), and Yoshimi Yamashita (1986).

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