# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-amechazurra
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:29:05.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-amechazurra"
name: "Manuel Amechazurra"
slug: "manuel-amechazurra"
description: "Manuel Amechazurra, knicknamed \"Amecha\" and dubbed as \"El Aventurero\" and \"El Capitán\", was a Philippine-born Spanish, mostly known for being a footballer who played as a defender and the first Filipino/Asian-born player to play in Europe. He is most renowned for his two spells at FC Barcelona and for being one of its first captains while playing a total of 200 games in the first team with 22 goals scored."
tagline: "Spanish association football player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1884-03-18"
deathDate: "1965-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.85
  momentum:             5.317822046333764
  historical:           9.428512000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%BB_%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B7%D1%83%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Мануэл Амечазурра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "مانويل اميتشازورا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra_Guazo"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra Guazo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%85%DA%86%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "مانوئل امچسرا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A6'%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%94"
    title: "מנואל אמצ'סורה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%88%84%EC%97%98_%EC%95%84%EB%A9%94%EC%B0%A8%EC%88%98%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "마누엘 아메차수라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Amechazurra"
    title: "Manuel Amechazurra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11934912"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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