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Footballers on the way up — steady, sustained gains in attention rather than a single viral spike. Today's underrated, tomorrow's headline.

FootballersGaining attentionUpdated dailyHow fame is measured

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#4	—	Kylian Mbappé French footballer	France	Footballers	85.9	22.2
#5	—	Pelé	Brazil	Footballers	85.7	36.8
#7	—	James Rodríguez	—	Footballers	85.2	25.0
#9	—	Sergio Agüero	Argentina	Footballers	83.3	25.6
#10	—	Thomas Müller	Germany	Footballers	82.9	28.9
#11	—	Iker Casillas	Spain	Footballers	82.6	26.7
#13	1	Yūto Nagatomo	Japan	Footballers	82.2	25.0
#15	1	Marcelo Vieira	Brazil	Footballers	81.5	10.9
#16	1	Romário	Brazil	Footballers	81.5	10.1
#17	1	Rio Ferdinand	United Kingdom	Footballers	81.1	7.9
#18	1	Zinedine Zidane	France	Footballers	80.8	30.3
#19	1	Nicolás Tagliafico	Argentina	Footballers	80.8	25.0
#21	2	Andrés Iniesta	Spain	Footballers	80.1	19.0
#25	2	Luka Modrić	—	Footballers	79.4	36.1
#26	2	Gianni Infantino	Switzerland	Footballers	79.3	14.3
#27	2	David Villa	Spain	Footballers	79.3	15.0
#28	1	Petr Čech	—	Footballers	79.3	9.6
#29	1	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Sweden	Footballers	79.3	25.0
#30	1	Juan Mata	Spain	Footballers	79.3	16.8
#34	1	Hidetoshi Nakata	Japan	Footballers	79.2	12.7
#36	1	Kō Itakura	Japan	Footballers	79.1	6.8
#37	—	Christian Pulisic	United States	Footballers	79.0	25.0
#38	—	Ahn Jung-hwan	South Korea	Footballers	78.9	25.0
#39	1	Ousmane Dembélé	France	Footballers	78.7	25.0
#40	1	Ben Foster	United Kingdom	Footballers	78.7	14.2
#43	1	Pau Cubarsí	Spain	Footballers	78.6	25.0
#45	1	Hakan Şükür	Turkey	Footballers	78.5	24.9
#46	2	Mauricio Pochettino	Argentina	Footballers	78.4	10.0
#47	2	Luis García Postigo	Mexico	Footballers	78.4	13.5
#50	2	Carlos Valderrama	—	Footballers	78.3	21.0
#52	2	Mido	Egypt	Footballers	78.3	22.6
#57	3	Diogo Jota	Portugal	Footballers	77.9	29.1
#59	4	Ritsu Dōan	Japan	Footballers	77.6	15.0
#65	3	Désiré Doué	—	Footballers	77.1	14.4
#66	3	Dick Advocaat	Netherlands	Footballers	77.1	25.0
#67	3	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	Footballers	76.8	15.0
#68	3	Zé Roberto	Brazil	Footballers	76.8	8.5
#72	1	Park Joo-ho	South Korea	Footballers	76.2	21.8
#74	1	Nestor Irankunda	Australia	Footballers	76.2	25.0
#75	1	Lee Chun-soo	South Korea	Footballers	76.1	16.0
#77	1	Yoshito Okubo	Japan	Footballers	75.7	25.0
#78	1	William Troost-Ekong	Nigeria	Footballers	75.7	35.0
#79	1	Fabio Cannavaro	Italy	Footballers	75.7	25.0
#80	1	Giorgio Chiellini	Italy	Footballers	75.6	17.9
#81	1	AH Alfie Haaland	Norway	Footballers	75.5	23.3
#83	1	Brahim Díaz	—	Footballers	75.3	10.0
#84	1	Megan Rapinoe	United States	Footballers	75.0	18.8
#93	1	Kaká	Brazil	Footballers	74.1	10.0
#94	9	Julián Alvarez	Argentina	Footballers	74.5	15.0
#95	1	Daigo Nishi	Japan	Footballers	73.9	17.6
#98	2	Djibril Cissé	France	Footballers	73.8	18.6
#101	3	Hajime Moriyasu	Japan	Footballers	73.5	14.9
#102	3	Lee Dong-gook	South Korea	Footballers	73.5	11.4
#105	3	Axel Witsel	—	Footballers	72.8	21.7
#106	3	Edin Džeko	—	Footballers	72.8	25.0
#110	3	Kim Young-kwang	South Korea	Footballers	72.5	15.0
#112	3	Mesut Özil	Germany	Footballers	72.3	19.2
#116	2	Antonio Rüdiger	Germany	Footballers	72.1	17.2
#117	2	Michel Platini	France	Footballers	72.1	13.0
#119	2	Ao Tanaka	Japan	Footballers	72.0	25.0
#120	3	Kim Byung-ji	South Korea	Footballers	71.9	21.3
#121	4	Wayne Rooney	United Kingdom	Footballers	71.7	20.5
#122	4	Jürgen Klinsmann	Germany	Footballers	71.7	10.0
#123	4	Miguel Almirón	—	Footballers	71.6	13.6
#124	4	RA Reda Abdel Aal	Egypt	Footballers	71.5	18.5
#127	4	Carli Lloyd	United States	Footballers	71.3	25.0
#128	5	Elijah Just	New Zealand	Footballers	71.0	25.0
#129	5	TK Tsuyoshi Kodama	Japan	Footballers	70.8	10.0
#130	5	Marcelo Bielsa	Argentina	Footballers	70.7	11.2
#132	4	Didier Drogba	—	Footballers	70.6	19.0
#133	4	Christos Tzolis	—	Footballers	70.5	21.4
#135	4	Roberto Mancini	Italy	Footballers	70.4	10.0
#136	9	Bradley Barcola	France	Footballers	70.4	15.0
#139	5	RM Ryota Moriwaki	Japan	Footballers	69.8	5.7
#140	14	Emiliano Martínez	Argentina	Footballers	69.8	15.0
#141	5	David Alaba	Austria	Footballers	69.8	22.8
#143	4	Ferenc Puskás	—	Footballers	69.7	14.5
#144	5	Eusébio	Portugal	Footballers	69.6	25.0
#145	5	Arsène Wenger	France	Footballers	69.6	18.0
#148	4	Steven Gerrard	United Kingdom	Footballers	69.5	5.2
#149	6	Yūki Nagasato	Japan	Footballers	69.4	15.6
#150	6	CJ Cho Jae-jin	South Korea	Footballers	69.3	4.4
#151	2	Xabi Alonso	Spain	Footballers	69.8	15.0
#154	6	Bruno Fernandes	Portugal	Footballers	69.1	18.8
#156	6	Presnel Kimpembe	France	Footballers	69.1	11.2
#157	6	Jürgen Klopp	Germany	Footballers	69.1	19.0
#158	6	Guéla Doué	France	Footballers	69.0	20.0
#159	6	João Cancelo	Portugal	Footballers	69.0	22.8
#160	6	Samuel Eto'o	—	Footballers	68.9	17.1
#161	6	Gerd Müller	Germany	Footballers	68.8	38.5
#164	6	TM Takeshi Mizuuchi	Japan	Footballers	68.8	14.1
#165	64	Matthias Jaissle	Germany	Footballers	68.8	14.1
#167	4	Martin Ødegaard	Norway	Footballers	68.8	16.1
#170	5	Jonathan Tah	Germany	Footballers	68.7	11.4
#171	5	Julen Lopetegui	Spain	Footballers	68.6	10.0
#173	5	Gary Lineker	United Kingdom	Footballers	68.5	25.0
#174	5	Alexi Lalas	United States	Footballers	68.4	25.0
#175	5	Asuna Tanaka	Japan	Footballers	68.4	10.7
#177	5	Alfredo Di Stéfano	Argentina	Footballers	68.3	15.0
#178	5	Gareth Southgate	United Kingdom	Footballers	68.3	24.3