# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcelo-balboa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:09:27.815Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcelo-balboa"
name: "Marcelo Balboa"
slug: "marcelo-balboa"
description: "Marcelo Balboa is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender in the 1990s for the United States national team, becoming its captain. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American soccer player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarceloBalboa_20060410.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1967-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.45629466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump