# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sandro-varejao
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:37.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sandro-varejao"
name: "Sandro Varejao"
slug: "sandro-varejao"
description: "Sandro França Varejão is a Brazilian former professional basketball player. A 6-foot-11-inch (2.11 m) center, he is the older brother of Anderson Varejão and played college basketball in the United States from 1993 to 1997, initially with Southern Idaho in the NJCAA and then with West Virginia in the NCAA Division I. After going undrafted in the 1997 NBA draft, Varejão started his professional career in Brazil, where he won several titles, among them four national championships and a Liga Sudamericana. Varejão is a six-time medalist with the Brazilian national team and participated in two FIBA World Championships in 1998 and 2002."
tagline: "Brazilian basketball player"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1972-04-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.41
  momentum:             5.631399317406144
  historical:           3.083154666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "ساندرو فرانكا ڤاريچاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Varej%C3%A3o"
    title: "Sandro Varejão"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Fran%C3%A7a_Varej%C3%A3o"
    title: "Sandro França Varejão"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19414193"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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