# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dries-mertens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:59:51.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dries-mertens"
name: "Dries Mertens"
slug: "dries-mertens"
description: "Dries Mertens is a Belgian former professional footballer who played either as a attacking-midfielder or winger. He is nicknamed \"Ciro\"."
tagline: "Belgian association football player (born 1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mertens_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1987-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           24.85712266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "dries_mertens14"
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    handle:    "driesmertens"
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    handle:    "MertensOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    title: "دریس مرتنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dries Mertens"
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    title: "Dries Mertens"
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    title: "Dries Mertens"
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    title: "Dries Mertens"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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