# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:31.667Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerson"
name: "Gérson"
slug: "gerson"
description: "Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense. He is widely known as \"the brain\" behind the Brazil Football Team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico."
tagline: "Brazilian footballer (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/G%C3%A9rson_1970_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1941-01-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.86
  momentum:             10
  historical:           22.88723333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Žersons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ژرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Жэрсан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "গারসন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson_de_Oliveira_Nunes"
    title: "Gérson de Oliveira Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson_de_Oliveira_Nunes"
    title: "Gérson de Oliveira Nunes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%96%CE%AD%CF%81%CF%83%CE%BF%CE%BD"
    title: "Ζέρσον"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson_(futbolista)"
    title: "Gérson (futbolista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ژرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rson"
    title: "Gérson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%96'%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9F"
    title: "ז'רסון"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gérson"
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    title: "Gérson"
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    title: "Gérson"
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    title: "ジェルソン・デ・オリヴェイラ・ヌーネス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ჟერსონი (ფეხბურთელი)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Жерсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q280306"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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