# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-best
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:58:01.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-best"
name: "John Best"
slug: "john-best"
description: "John Best was a professional soccer player who played as a defender, spending six seasons in the North American Soccer League where he was a five-time first team All Star. He later coached the NASL Seattle Sounders and served as the general manager of the Sounders and the Vancouver Whitecaps. Born in England, he also earned one cap with the United States national team in 1973."
tagline: "Soccer player (1940–2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/John_Best_in_1967.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: "1940-07-11"
deathDate: "2014-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.63
  momentum:             3.76
  historical:           7.879050666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9_(%D8%B3%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان بیسٹ (ساکر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جون بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
    title: "جون بست (لاعب كورة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جان بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Best_(Fu%C3%9Fballspieler)"
    title: "John Best (Fußballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Best_(soccer)"
    title: "John Best (soccer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Best_(futbolista)"
    title: "John Best (futbolista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "جان بست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Best_(calciatore)"
    title: "John Best (calciatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1699328"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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