# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/antonio-dos-santos-franca
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:41:07.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/antonio-dos-santos-franca"
name: "António dos Santos França"
slug: "antonio-dos-santos-franca"
description: "General António Santos França \"Ndalu\" is a former footballer and Angolan politician, born in the town of Mupa in Cunene on April 9, 1938. He played as a midfielder. Following his short sporting career, he completed his studies in Portugal and Cuba and returned to Angola, where he became a fervent anti-colonial activist, and became General \"Ndalu\". In 1988, dos Santos França was chief of staff for the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA)."
tagline: "Angolan footballer and politician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1938-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.216164
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7a_Ndalu"
    title: "França Ndalu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "أنطونيو فرانكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "انتونيو دوس سانتوس فرانكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_dos_Santos_Fran%C3%A7a"
    title: "António dos Santos França"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_dos_Santos_Fran%C3%A7a"
    title: "António dos Santos França"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Fran%C3%A7a"
    title: "António França"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Fran%C3%A7a"
    title: "António França"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_dos_Santos_Fran%C3%A7a"
    title: "António dos Santos França"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2857736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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