# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maarten-martens
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:30.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maarten-martens"
name: "Maarten Martens"
slug: "maarten-martens"
description: "Maarten Martens is a Belgian professional football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder, either as an attacking midfielder or winger who was most recently the head coach of the Dutch club AZ Alkmaar. Martens was known for his flair, dribbling and goalscoring ability as well as his precise passing and creativity. He previously played for Belgian clubs Anderlecht and Cercle Brugge, Dutch clubs RKC Waalwijk and AZ, as well as Greek club PAOK. At international level, he has represented the Belgium national team."
tagline: "Belgian association football player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maarten-Martens.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: "1984-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.13
  momentum:             2.190265486725663
  historical:           17.73186266666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_Martens"
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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    title: "Maarten Martens"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump