# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-essola
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:03.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-essola"
name: "Paul Essola"
slug: "paul-essola"
description: "Paul-Hervé Essola Tchamba is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He signed for FC Arsenal Kyiv in June 2007. Essola had previously arrived in Ukraine six months previously to play for FC Stal Alchevsk, having been released by French club SC Bastia. In January 2008, he was named in the Cameroon squad for the 2008 African Cup of Nations."
tagline: "Cameroonian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%87_%C2%AB%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%C2%BB_-_%C2%AB%D0%90%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%C2%BB_3-0._%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%91%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%BE._9_%D0%B0%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F_2010_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0_%E2%80%94_81856.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: "1981-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.99
  momentum:             2.6
  historical:           8.271202666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%95%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0"
    title: "Поль Ессола"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "باول إيسولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "باول ايسولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Essola"
    title: "Paul Essola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Herv%C3%A9_Essola"
    title: "Paul-Hervé Essola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Essola"
    title: "Paul Essola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Essola"
    title: "Paul Essola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Essola"
    title: "Paul Essola"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Эссола, Поль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2604466"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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