# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alex-chola
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:26:00.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alex-chola"
name: "Alex Chola"
slug: "alex-chola"
description: "Alexander \"Alex\" Chola was a Zambian footballer and coach. Voted Zambian Footballer of the Year in 1976, he is regarded as one of the greatest Zambian players in history and is the country's second highest goal scorer after Godfrey Chitalu. He made a mark at Mufulira Blackpool and Power Dynamos before becoming Dynamos coach and winning the Coach of the Year award in 1992. Chola died in a plane crash off the coast of Gabon on 27 April 1993."
tagline: "Zambian association football player (1956-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alex_Chola_(cropped).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: "1956-06-06"
deathDate: "1993-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.49
  momentum:             4.736842105263158
  historical:           11.54751733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Алекс Чола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ألكس تشولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اليكس تشولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A8%EB%A6%AD%EC%8A%A4_%EC%B4%90%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "앨릭스 촐라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81"
    title: "Чола, Алекс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Chola"
    title: "Alex Chola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4716817"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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