# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-faneca
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:48:47.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-faneca"
name: "Alan Faneca"
slug: "alan-faneca"
description: "Alan Joseph Faneca is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for Louisiana State University (LSU), and earned consensus All-America honors. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 1998 NFL draft, and played professionally for the Steelers, New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals of the NFL. A six-time first-team All-Pro and nine-time Pro Bowl selection, Faneca won a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL, defeating the Seattle Seahawks. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021 and on May 10, 2021, he was introduced as the head football coach of Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia."
tagline: "American football player (born 1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Faneca_throwback.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1976-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.41
  momentum:             4.168421052631578
  historical:           7.955802666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/afan66"
    handle:    "afan66"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "آلان فانيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "الان فانيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faneca"
    title: "Alan Faneca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2608819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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