# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cj-van-der-linde
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:16:39.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cj-van-der-linde"
name: "CJ van der Linde"
slug: "cj-van-der-linde"
description: "Christoffel Johannes van der Linde is a South African former professional rugby union player and currently the scrum coach at French Top 14 side Montpellier. He played first class rugby between 2002 and 2015 in South Africa, Ireland, England and France and also made 75 test matches for South Africa, which included winning the 2007 Rugby World Cup. His usual playing position was prop."
tagline: "South African rugby union footballer and coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CJ_van_der_Linde.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1980-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             11.52011085311961
  historical:           5.482686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_van_der_Linde"
    title: "CJ van der Linde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_van_der_Linde"
    title: "CJ van der Linde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_van_der_Linde"
    title: "CJ van der Linde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%88_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5"
    title: "КЈ ван дер Линде"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_van_der_Linde"
    title: "CJ van der Linde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJ_van_der_Linde"
    title: "CJ van der Linde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726224"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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