# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-chabala
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:57.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-chabala"
name: "David Chabala"
slug: "david-chabala"
description: "David Efford Chabala, popularly known as Efford Chabala was Zambia's first choice goalkeeper from 1983 until his death in a plane crash off the Gabonese coast in 1993 and is one of Zambia's most capped players, with 108 full international appearances. Chabala was instrumental in Zambia's first ever East and Central African Championship success when he saved three penalties in Zambia's 3–0 shoot-out victory over Malawi in the 1984 final in Uganda after a goalless draw at full-time. He was named Zambia's Sportsman of the Year in 1985."
tagline: "Zambian association football player (1960–1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Efford_Chabala.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1960-02-02"
deathDate: "1993-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.167701863354036
  historical:           12.22286
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Chabala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chabala"
    title: "David Chabala"
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    title: "David Chabala"
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    title: "데이비드 차발라"
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    title: "David Chabala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump