# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/drazen-besek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:40.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/drazen-besek"
name: "Dražen Besek"
slug: "drazen-besek"
description: "Dražen Besek is a Croatian football coach and a former professional football midfield player. As a player he spent most of his career playing for Croatian teams Varteks and Dinamo Zagreb before moving abroad and appearing for clubs in France, Denmark and Austria. After his playing career ended he went into management, and had several coaching spells at his hometown football club Varteks, before moving abroad again and joining Polish side Zagłębie Lubin, Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua and many others."
tagline: "Croatian footballer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1963-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472570666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Besek"
    title: "Dražen Besek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "درازين بيسيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Besek"
    title: "Dražen Besek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B7%E6%8B%89%E5%B2%91%C2%B7%E6%8B%9C%E5%A1%9E%E5%85%8B"
    title: "德拉岑·拜塞克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Besek"
    title: "Dražen Besek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Besek"
    title: "Dražen Besek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5306168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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