# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neale-cooper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:48:02.684Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neale-cooper"
name: "Neale Cooper"
slug: "neale-cooper"
description: "Neale James Cooper was a Scottish football player and coach. He played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s, most prominently for the Aberdeen team managed by Alex Ferguson, and later played for Aston Villa, Rangers, Reading, Dunfermline Athletic and Ross County. Cooper then became a coach, and worked as a manager in England with Hartlepool United (twice) and Gillingham, and in Scotland with Ross County and Peterhead."
tagline: "Scottish footballer and manager (1963-2018)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1963-11-24"
deathDate: "2018-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.3
  momentum:             8.900523560209425
  historical:           7.931646666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
    title: "نيل كوبر (لاعب كرة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Купер, Нил"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neale_Cooper"
    title: "Neale Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6984216"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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