# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nico-rijnders
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:24:18.835Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nico-rijnders"
name: "Nico Rijnders"
slug: "nico-rijnders"
description: "Reinier Johannes Maria \"Nico\" Rijnders was a Dutch footballer who played for NAC Breda and Ajax Amsterdam and was part of their European Cup victory in 1971. He earned 8 caps for the Netherlands national football team. He collapsed on 12 November 1972 while playing for Club Brugge against RFC Liège and was clinically dead when he was transported off the pitch, he was successfully reanimated by the club doctor but the incident ended Rijnders' playing career. His health condition was never fully recovered and he died three years later, aged 28."
tagline: "Dutch footballer (1947–1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nico_Rijnders_1969.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: "1947-07-30"
deathDate: "1976-03-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             8.402877697841728
  historical:           10.97937733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%DA%86%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "نيكو ريچنديرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Rijnders"
    title: "Nico Rijnders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Рейндерс, Нико"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2469090"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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