# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rui-costa
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:46:07.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rui-costa"
name: "Rui Costa"
slug: "rui-costa"
description: "Rui Manuel César Costa is a Portuguese former professional footballer who is the 34th president of sports club Benfica."
tagline: "Portuguese footballer (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rui_Costa_2019.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Portugal"
  isoCode: "PT"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1972-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.35
  momentum:             15
  historical:           24.020248
  currentAttention:     71.17857142857143
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  99
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "روي كوستا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7_(%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%A8_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%82%D8%AF%D9%85)"
    title: "روى كوستا (لاعب كورة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Ko%C5%9Fta"
    title: "Rui Koşta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0"
    title: "Руи Коща"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Manuel_C%C3%A9sar_Costa"
    title: "Rui Manuel César Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa_(Fu%C3%9Fballspieler)"
    title: "Rui Costa (Fußballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%AF_%CE%9A%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1"
    title: "Ρουί Κόστα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa_(futbolista_nacido_en_1972)"
    title: "Rui Costa (futbolista nacido en 1972)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7"
    title: "روی کاستا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa_(football)"
    title: "Rui Costa (football)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%94"
    title: "רוי קושטה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa_(labdar%C3%BAg%C3%B3)"
    title: "Rui Costa (labdarúgó)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8C%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AB_%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B7%D5%BF%D5%A1"
    title: "Ռուի Կոշտա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui_Costa"
    title: "Rui Costa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190608"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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