# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-pfaff
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:37:39.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-marie-pfaff"
name: "Jean-Marie Pfaff"
slug: "jean-marie-pfaff"
description: "Jean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and spent most of his professional career with Beveren and Bayern Munich. Pfaff was capped 64 times playing for Belgium, and participated at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and 1986 FIFA World Cup tournaments. Pfaff was named goalkeeper of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, and he was the first player to receive the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award in 1987."
tagline: "Belgian association football player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Marie_Pfaff_at_Runa_Ralley_2007_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1953-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             19.63006278468546
  historical:           23.52231466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 246
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0679299"
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    url:       "http://www.jeanmariepfaff.be/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump