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Yıldıray Baştürk

1978 - Today

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Yıldıray Baştürk (Turkish pronunciation: [jɯɫˈdɯˈɾaj baʃˈtyɾk], born 24 December 1978) is a retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Born in Germany, he was capped 49 times for the Turkey national football team, representing the team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place. In the same year he also appeared for Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yıldıray Baştürk has received more than 222,013 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Yıldıray Baştürk is the 3,187th most popular soccer player (down from 2,936th in 2019), the 4,775th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,351st in 2019) and the 220th most popular German Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Yıldıray Baştürks by language

Over the past year Yıldıray Baştürk has had the most page views in the with 31,198 views, followed by Turkish (30,079), and German (22,609). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (103.21%), Ukrainian (68.85%), and Malay (48.49%)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 3,187 out of 21,273Before him are Thomas Gravesen, Zoran Vulić, Ever Almeida, Gino Cappello, Erik Granfelt, and Alex Sandro. After him are Pita, Andriy Voronin, Alfredo Devincenzi, Sergo Kotrikadze, Mario Alborta, and Ali Bencheikh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 107Before him are Jason Biggs, Ginnifer Goodwin, Bárbara Mori, Emppu Vuorinen, Liya Kebede, and Okan Yalabık. After him are Bajrakitiyabha, Paul Anderson, Suthida, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Matthew Goode, and Yi So-yeon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 4,775 out of 7,253Before him are Klaus Glahn (1942), Johanna Kinkel (1810), Monika Zehrt (1952), Lothar Kurbjuweit (1950), Brother Alois (1954), and Rudolph Dirks (1877). After him are Andreas Scholl (1967), Wendelin Werner (1968), Roland Grapow (1959), Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1750), Axel von dem Bussche (1919), and Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 220Before him are Ditmar Jakobs (1953), Hans Cieslarczyk (1937), Peter Dietrich (1944), Timo Werner (1996), Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (1943), and Lothar Kurbjuweit (1950). After him are Thomas Helmer (1965), Willy Busch (1907), Klaus Sammer (1942), Zvjezdan Misimović (1982), Norbert Eder (1955), and Uli Stein (1954).