# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-basham
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:06.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-basham"
name: "Chris Basham"
slug: "chris-basham"
description: "Christopher Paul Basham is an English former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder or centre back. He spent the majority of his professional career at Sheffield United where he became best known as a pioneer of the role of the overlapping centre back, a position he developed under Chris Wilder during the 2016–17 season."
tagline: "English association football player (born 1988)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1988-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.05
  momentum:             0.9071504802561366
  historical:           16.37012533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%8B%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E6%96%AF%E6%B1%89%E5%A7%86"
    title: "克里斯·巴斯汉姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كريس باشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "كريس باشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%81_%D0%91%D1%8D%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Крыс Бэшам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "کریس باشام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A0"
    title: "クリス・バシャム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BC%2C_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Бэшем, Крис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Basham"
    title: "Chris Basham"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q861132"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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