# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abedi-pele
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:32:17.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abedi-pele"
name: "Abedi Pele"
slug: "abedi-pele"
description: "Abedi Ayew, known professionally as Abedi Pele, is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and served as captain of the Ghana national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time. He played for several European clubs and found his fame in the French Ligue 1 with Lille and Marseille. At the latter, he won the UEFA Champions League in 1993, among other titles. He was also the first to win the CAF award in 1992."
tagline: "Ghanaian and French association football player (born 1964)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abedi_Pele_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1964-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           59.25
  momentum:             4.091347418251951
  historical:           23.82399466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "عبيدي بيليه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "আবেদি পেলে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abedi Pele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C3%A9di_Ayew"
    title: "Abédi Ayew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C3%A9di_Pel%C3%A9"
    title: "Abédi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Ayew"
    title: "Abedi Ayew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abédi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abédi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abedi Pele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عبدی پله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abédi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Pel%C3%A9"
    title: "Abedi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Pele"
    title: "Abedi Pele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Pele"
    title: "Abedi Pele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%93%D7%99_%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%94"
    title: "עבדי פלה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abedi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Աբեդի Պելե"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abédi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Pel%C3%A9"
    title: "Abedi Pelé"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%99%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AC"
    title: "アベディ・ペレ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EB%B2%A0%EB%94%94_%ED%8E%A0%EB%A0%88"
    title: "아베디 펠레"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kus.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abedi_Pele"
    title: "Abedi Pele"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abedi_Pele"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q336916"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump