# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-baird
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:00.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-baird"
name: "Michael Baird"
slug: "michael-baird"
description: "Michael William Baird is an Australian soccer player striker. Michael has played in both the National Soccer League (NSL) and the A-League, spending time at clubs in New South Wales and Queensland. The young striker then moved overseas to play with Universitatea Craiova in the Romanian top flight; however, due to a contract dispute, he moved back to Australia to compete in the A-League for Perth Glory missing out on the first 3 rounds of the 2010/2011 season due to his lack of provisional clearance by FIFA."
tagline: "Australian soccer player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baird.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1983-08-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.337473333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Бэйрд, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "ميشيل باريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "ميشيل باريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baird_(soccer)"
    title: "Michael Baird (soccer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baird"
    title: "Michael Baird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baird_(calciatore)"
    title: "Michael Baird (calciatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Baird"
    title: "Michael Baird"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6828365"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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