# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marwan-arafat
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:28:07.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marwan-arafat"
name: "Marwan Arafat"
slug: "marwan-arafat"
description: "Mohammad Marwan Arafat was a Syrian football referee, sports analyst, academic lecturer and journalist, well known for being the first Arabic and Asian football referee to be a linesman in a third place Olympic game match. He was the head of the Syrian football association three times. During his presidency of the Syrian FA, the Syrian U-21 team won the Asian cup in 1994 in Indonesia."
tagline: "Syrian football referee (1945–2012)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1945-01-05"
deathDate: "2012-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.16
  momentum:             1.029411764705882
  historical:           5.669366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "مروان عرفات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA"
    title: "مروان عرفات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Arafat"
    title: "Marwan Arafat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Арафат, Марван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Arafat"
    title: "Marwan Arafat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Arafat"
    title: "Marwan Arafat"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3296097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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