# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juan-carlos-plata
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:43:28.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juan-carlos-plata"
name: "Juan Carlos Plata"
slug: "juan-carlos-plata"
description: "Juan Carlos Plata, nicknamed El Pin or Pin Plata, is a Guatemalan professional football manager and former player who played as a striker. He is the highest-scoring player in the history of Guatemala's top division. As of January 2010, Plata has, except for Marc Lloyd-Williams, been the most prolific scorer among all active players in the world in top division leagues, and is among the top 60 goalscorers of all time in the world according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics."
tagline: "Guatemalan footballer (born 1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Juan_Carlos_Plata_(2019).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1971-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.68
  momentum:             15.70472792149866
  historical:           11.37653333333333
  currentAttention:     26
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Хуан Карлос Плата"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "خوان كارلوس بلاتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "خوان كارلوس بلاتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81"
    title: "Плата, Хуан Карлос"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%81_%D0%9F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Хуан Карлос Плата"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_Plata"
    title: "Juan Carlos Plata"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2304889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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