# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laurent-merlin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:23.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laurent-merlin"
name: "Laurent Merlin"
slug: "laurent-merlin"
description: "Laurent Merlin is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He started his career as a youngster with the Olympique de Marseille reserve team, where he quickly progressed into the senior squad and earned two caps over two seasons with the seniors. Laurent was then snapped up by Corsica based French league team, AC Ajaccio. He got his first senior goal with the club before being loaned to LB Châteauroux and on his return was sold to Chivas USA."
tagline: "French footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laurent_Merlin_Chivas_USA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1984-10-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           5.671778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Merlin"
    title: "Laurent Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لورون ميرلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "لورون ميرلان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Merlin_(football)"
    title: "Laurent Merlin (football)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Merlin"
    title: "Laurent Merlin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "لوران مرلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1808122"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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