# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-sergio-q647438
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:17:22.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-sergio-q647438"
name: "Mário Sérgio"
slug: "mario-sergio-q647438"
description: "Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, known as Mário Sérgio, was a Brazilian football player and manager. He later became a commentator for Fox Sports Brazil, which he joined at the channel's inception in 2012. He died in the LaMia Airlines Flight 2933 accident in the Colombian village of Cerro Gordo, La Unión, Antioquia, while travelling with the Chapecoense football squad for the Copa Sudamericana finals on 28 November 2016."
tagline: "Brazilian footballer and manager (1950–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_Pontes_de_Paiva.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1950-09-07"
deathDate: "2016-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.28
  momentum:             1.203703703703704
  historical:           11.42045333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "馬里奧沙治奧派華"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريو سيرجيو بونتيس دي بايفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماريو سيرجيو بونتيس دى بايفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_(footballer%2C_born_1950)"
    title: "Mário Sérgio (footballer, born 1950)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mário Sérgio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_Pontes_de_Paiva"
    title: "Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_(brazylijski_pi%C5%82karz)"
    title: "Mário Sérgio (brazylijski piłkarz)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_(futebolista_brasileiro)"
    title: "Mário Sérgio (futebolista brasileiro)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Понтес ди Пайва, Марио Сержио"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rio_S%C3%A9rgio_(1950_do%C4%9Fumlu_futbolcu)"
    title: "Mário Sérgio (1950 doğumlu futbolcu)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Маріо Серджіо Понтес де Пайва"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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