# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-eriksson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:45:03.718Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-eriksson"
name: "Jan Eriksson"
slug: "jan-eriksson"
description: "Jan Jonas Jakob \"Janne\" Eriksson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. Starting off his career with IFK Sundsvall in the mid-1980s, he went on to play professionally in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, England, and the United States before retiring in 1999. A full international between 1990 and 1994, he won 35 caps for the Sweden national team and participated at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1992. He was also selected for the 1994 FIFA World Cup but had to withdraw because of an injury. He was the recipient of the 1992 Guldbollen as Sweden's best footballer of the year."
tagline: "Swedish footballer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "SE"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1967-08-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  popularity:           52.44
  momentum:             11.8937755698422
  historical:           18.851084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump