# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hidetoshi-nakata
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:39.947Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hidetoshi-nakata"
name: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
slug: "hidetoshi-nakata"
description: "Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI  is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered as one of the greatest Asian football players of all time and coming from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or."
tagline: "Japanese association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hidetoshi_Nakata_in_Okinawa.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1977-01-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           79.18
  momentum:             12.69776231728936
  historical:           28.23412
  currentAttention:     12.26255598767891
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  20
  category: 34
totalFollowers: 94900
platforms:
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    url:       "http://nakata.net/"
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nakata_dot_net"
    handle:    "nakata_dot_net"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/hidetoshi_nakata_/"
    handle:    "hidetoshi_nakata_"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LSthoQNtosvV-5408Mniw"
    handle:    "@hidetoshinakataofficial"
    followers: 94900
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    title: "Хідэтосі Наката"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoši Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
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    title: "Χιντετόσι Νακάτα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
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    title: "هیدتوشی ناکاتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidetoshi_Nakata"
    title: "Hidetoshi Nakata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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