# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-vella
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:06:54.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-vella"
name: "Simon Vella"
slug: "simon-vella"
description: "Simon Vella is a retired footballer who played as a defender. Born in England, he represented the Malta national team at internationalvel. Vella started his career with Wimbledon before joining non-League Sutton United. He spent the rest of his club career in Scotland, playing for Stenhousemuir, Clydebank, Airdrie United, Forfar Athletic and in junior football for Bo'ness United. He joined Forfar in July 2003 after leaving Airdrie."
tagline: "Footballer (born 1979)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1979-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           34.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668394666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Vella"
    title: "Simon Vella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "سيمون فيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "سيمون فيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Vella"
    title: "Simon Vella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "سیمون ولا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Vella"
    title: "Simon Vella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16948149"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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