# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-mermans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:58:03.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-mermans"
name: "Joseph Mermans"
slug: "joseph-mermans"
description: "Josephus Antoon Louisa \"Jef\" Mermans, nicknamed \"The Bomber\", was a football striker from Belgium, who played much of his career at Anderlecht, with whom he won seven Belgian Championship titles and finished top scorer of this competition three times. He played 405 games and scored 369 goals for Anderlecht, making him the club's all time topscorer."
tagline: "Belgian footballer (1922-1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jef_Mermans%2C_Nederland-Belgi%C3%AB%2C_3_april_1955.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1922-02-16"
deathDate: "1996-01-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.34
  momentum:             4.979684121677283
  historical:           16.65274
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1476745/"
    handle:    "nm1476745"
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    title: "Joseph Mermans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mermans"
    title: "Joseph Mermans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jef Mermans"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mermans"
    title: "Joseph Mermans"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump