# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/birger-maertens
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:28:25.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/birger-maertens"
name: "Birger Maertens"
slug: "birger-maertens"
description: "Birger Maertens is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He obtained two caps for the Belgium national team."
tagline: "Belgian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Birger_Maertens.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: "1980-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.12
  momentum:             8.18181818181818
  historical:           9.808136
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بيرغر مارتينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "بيرجر مارتينز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ビルヘル・メルテンス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Maertens"
    title: "Birger Maertens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Біргер Мартенс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q641229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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