# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandru-apolzan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:17.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandru-apolzan"
name: "Alexandru Apolzan"
slug: "alexandru-apolzan"
description: "Alexandru Apolzan was a Romanian footballer, who played as a defender, mainly for Steaua București and also for Romania. He has been credited with the invention of the sweeper role and is considered one of the best sweepers in the history of Romanian football, with only Miodrag Belodedici and Gheorghe Popescu, in recent years, being able to play at a similar level."
tagline: "Romanian footballer (1927-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexandru_Apolzan_1955.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: "1927-02-06"
deathDate: "1982-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.138589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "اليكساندرو اپولزان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Apolzan"
    title: "Alexandru Apolzan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466295"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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