# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paulo-afonso-santos-junior
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:38:03.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paulo-afonso-santos-junior"
name: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior"
slug: "paulo-afonso-santos-junior"
description: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior, known as Paulão, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a central defender."
tagline: "Brazilian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paulo_Afonso_Santos_J%C3%BAnior_(2013).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1982-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.16
  momentum:             6.951219512195121
  historical:           9.827792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пауло Афонсо Сантос Жуніор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%DA%86%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "پولو افونسو سانتوس چونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "پائولو آفونسو سانتوس جونیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Afonso_Santos_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%C3%A3o_(footballer%2C_born_1982)"
    title: "Paulão (footballer, born 1982)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Afonso_Santos_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%A2%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "پائولو آفونسو سانتوس جونیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%C3%A3o_(football%2C_1982)"
    title: "Paulão (football, 1982)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Afonso_Santos_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Afonso_Santos_J%C3%BAnior"
    title: "Paulo Afonso Santos Júnior"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%81_%D0%96%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%90%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE"
    title: "Сантос Жуниор, Пауло Афонсо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q519288"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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