# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-essien
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:08:41.924Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-essien"
name: "Michael Essien"
slug: "michael-essien"
description: "Michael Essien is a Ghanaian football coach and former player who is currently an assistant coach at Danish Superliga club Nordsjælland."
tagline: "Ghanaian footballer (born 1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chelsea_Legends_1_Inter_Forever_4_(28453496098)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1982-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.18
  momentum:             18.86960839800779
  historical:           24.88527466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Essien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Essien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Essien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մայքլ Էսսյեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump