# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-arday
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:01:50.269Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-arday"
name: "Sam Arday"
slug: "sam-arday"
description: "Sam Arday was a Ghanaian football coach who has managed the Ghana national side on two occasions – from 1996 to 1997, and again in 2004. He retired from the police service where his last position was a Superintendent. He was the originator of the 'multi system' technique of football, which involved playing all attack and all defense simultaneously. This was executed by switching among the 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 and the 4-4-2 formations. He was a scout for the Black Stars prior to the 2006 World Cup in Germany and again when Akwasi Appiah was the coach of the team."
tagline: "Ghanaian football manager (1945-2017)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1945-11-02"
deathDate: "2017-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.67
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.403276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC"
    title: "Ардай, Сэм"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Arday"
    title: "Sam Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "سام آردای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Arday"
    title: "Sam Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Arday"
    title: "Sam Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Arday"
    title: "Samuel Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Arday"
    title: "Sam Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Arday"
    title: "Samuel Arday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3784530"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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