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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 224,829 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yıldıray Baştürk is the 2,937th most popular soccer player (down from 2,926th in 2019), the 4,365th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,916th in 2019) and the 191st most popular German Soccer Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 2,937 out of 16,880Before him are Hans Walzhofer, Nahum Stelmach, Giuseppe Giannini, George Yonashiro, Stuart McCall, and Egisto Pandolfini. After him are Kazuo Imanishi, Seydou Doumbia, Hector Goetinck, Estanislau de Figueiredo Pamplona, Zoran Simović, and Jimmy Hogan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 122Before him are Daisuke Ono, Liya Kebede, Guy Berryman, Kim Ha-neul, Dennis Rommedahl, and Daniella Alonso. After him are Matthew Davis, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, Joshua Jackson, Radek Štěpánek, Namkoong Min, and Erica Durance.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 4,365 out of 6,142Before him are Kevin Trapp (1990), Lou Bega (1975), Shantel (1968), Ralph Giordano (1923), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), and Wilhelm Baumann (1912). After him are Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927), W. Michael Blumenthal (1926), Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wolfram Löwe (1945), and Wolfgang Dremmler (1954).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Yıldıray Baştürk ranks 191Before him are Bernd Nickel (1949), Dieter Herzog (1946), Fritz Herkenrath (1928), Hans Nowak (1937), Stefan Kießling (1984), and Kevin Trapp (1990). After him are Wolfram Löwe (1945), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), Werner Krämer (1940), Paul Zielinski (1911), Ivan Klasnić (1980), and Hans Jakob (1908).