# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bala-garba
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:13:41.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bala-garba"
name: "Bala Garba"
slug: "bala-garba"
description: "Bala Ahmed Garba is a Nigerian footballer and coach. He played for FK Haugesund from 1997 to 2002, scoring 61 goals, which is a club record. In the 2005 season he played for Start, winning silver medal in the Tippeliga with the club. In 2006, he played for Notodden Fotballklubb. Later he settled in Kopervik, where he has been coaching local clubs in addition to daytime work."
tagline: "Nigerian footballer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1974-08-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.94
  momentum:             3.709677419354838
  historical:           6.136393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%81"
    title: "بالا گربہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "بالا غاربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "بالا جاربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Garba"
    title: "Bala Garba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Garba"
    title: "Bala Garba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Garba"
    title: "Bala Garba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bala_Garba"
    title: "Bala Garba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1773417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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