# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janine-van-wyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:40:48.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janine-van-wyk"
name: "Janine van Wyk"
slug: "janine-van-wyk"
description: "Janine van Wyk is a former South African professional soccer defender, coach, and owner of JVW F.C., a club she founded and bears her name. Van Wyk was the captain of the South African women's national team, has the most international caps among African women's national teams with 185 and was the first South African ever to play in the U.S. National Women's Soccer League."
tagline: "South African footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chile_-_Sud%C3%A1frica_20181009_03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1987-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.12
  momentum:             12.02746627661303
  historical:           15.35028933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/janinevanwyk5"
    handle:    "janinevanwyk5"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/janinevanwyk5/"
    handle:    "janinevanwyk5"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/janine.vanwyk.5"
    handle:    "janine.vanwyk.5"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "چانين ڤان ويك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جانین ون ویک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9E%AC%EB%8B%8C_%EB%B0%B4_%EC%9C%84%ED%81%AC"
    title: "재닌 밴 위크"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine_van_Wyk"
    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Janine van Wyk"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18128995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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