# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/afonso-alves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:29:15.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/afonso-alves"
name: "Afonso Alves"
slug: "afonso-alves"
description: "Afonso Alves Martins Júnior, better known as Afonso Alves, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He represented Atlético Mineiro, Örgryte, Malmö FF, Heerenveen, Middlesbrough, Al-Sadd, Al-Rayyan and Al-Gharafa during a career that spanned between 2001 and 2013. He won eight caps and scored one goal for the Brazil national team, and helped his country win the 2007 Copa América."
tagline: "Brazilian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afonso_Alves_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1981-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.838257401227762
  historical:           21.24739733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.alvesofficial.com"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump