# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leif-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:51:08.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leif-nielsen"
name: "Leif Nielsen"
slug: "leif-nielsen"
description: "Leif Bernhard Nielsen was a Danish football goalkeeper, who was named the 1966 Danish Player of the Year. He played 28 games for the Denmark national football team, and participated in the 1964 European Championship. He played for BK Frem in Denmark, and is regarded as one of the club's greatest players of all time. In 1968, he played for the Houston Stars of the North American Soccer League before finishing his career with Scottish club Greenock Morton."
tagline: "Danish footballer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1942-05-28"
deathDate: "2026-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             25
  historical:           11.16296133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%84_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Лейф Нільсен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ليف نيلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ليف نيلسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen_(football%2C_1942)"
    title: "Leif Nielsen (football, 1942)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Nielsen"
    title: "Leif Nielsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B8%D1%84_(%D1%84%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%2C_1942)"
    title: "Нильсен, Леиф (футболист, 1942)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2696539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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