# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-benedek
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:50:54.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-benedek"
name: "Jim Benedek"
slug: "jim-benedek"
description: "Janos \"Jim\" Benedek was a Hungarian-American soccer forward who later coached at both the collegiate and national team levels. Benedek was an All American collegiate soccer player before spending six seasons in the North American Soccer League. He earned four caps with the U.S. national team in 1968 and was a member of the team that attempted to qualify for the 1968 Summer Olympics."
tagline: "American soccer player-coach (1941-2009)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Jim_Benedek.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1941-06-09"
deathDate: "2009-03-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.135637333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%85_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "جم بینیڈیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جيم بينديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "جيم بينديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Benedek"
    title: "Jim Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Benedek"
    title: "Jim Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedek_J%C3%A1nos_(labdar%C3%BAg%C3%B3)"
    title: "Benedek János (labdarúgó)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Benedek"
    title: "Jim Benedek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q792786"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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