# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kostas-kasapoglu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:23:24.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kostas-kasapoglu"
name: "Kostas Kasapoğlu"
slug: "kostas-kasapoglu"
description: "Koço Kasapoğlu, also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. A forward, throughout his career he was also nicknamed penaltı kralı because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties he took in his career and is considered the best penalty taker in Turkish football history."
tagline: "Turkish association football player (1936–2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1936-01-01"
deathDate: "2016-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.142117333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Kasapo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Kostas Kasapoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "كوكو كاساپوجلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Kasapo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Kostas Kasapoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C3%A7o_Kasapo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Koço Kasapoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CF%8E%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%AC%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Κώτσος Κασάπογλου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C3%A7o_Kasapo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Koço Kasapoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostas_Kasapo%C4%9Flu"
    title: "Kostas Kasapoğlu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3561131"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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