# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/federico-mendez
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:47:01.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/federico-mendez"
name: "Federico Méndez"
slug: "federico-mendez"
description: "Federico Eduardo Méndez Azpillaga is an Argentine rugby union footballer.\nMéndez played professional rugby in South Africa, England and France. He also played for Mendoza Rugby Club in Argentina and won 74 caps for the Argentina national rugby union team, including appearances at four Rugby World Cups, in 1991, 1995 and 2003. Mendez was considered the best hooker at the 1995 World Cup and had the unique ability to play hooker, loosehead or tighthead."
tagline: "Argentine rugby union footballer and coach"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1972-08-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.23
  momentum:             8.91891891891892
  historical:           5.673650666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Federico Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فيديريكو منديز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "فيديريكو منديز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Federico Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Federico Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_M%C3%A9ndez"
    title: "Federico Méndez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1649008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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