# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joost-van-aken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:08:03.493Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joost-van-aken"
name: "Joost van Aken"
slug: "joost-van-aken"
description: "Joost Maurits van Aken is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He started his senior career at SC Heerenveen, and has also played for Sheffield Wednesday, VfL Osnabrück and Zulte Waregem. Internationally, he has played for the Netherlands under-21s."
tagline: "Dutch association football player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1994-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.29
  momentum:             1.87984496124031
  historical:           11.15540133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A2%D9%83%D9%86"
    title: "يوست فان آكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "چوسانت ڤان اكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヨースト・ファン・アーケン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joost_van_Aken"
    title: "Joost van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82"
    title: "Ван Акен, Йост"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15943430"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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