# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gregory-mertens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:01:16.427Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gregory-mertens"
name: "Gregory Mertens"
slug: "gregory-mertens"
description: "Gregory Mertens was a Belgian professional football player. His usual position was central defender. He began his senior career with Cercle Brugge and was under contract with Lokeren before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest during a reserve game in 2015."
tagline: "Belgian footballer (1991–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9a/Gregory_Mertens.png?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1991-02-21"
deathDate: "2015-04-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.29910266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Գրեգորի Մերտենս"
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    title: "Мертенс, Грегори"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump