# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-sumner
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:38:34.008Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-sumner"
name: "Steve Sumner"
slug: "steve-sumner"
description: "Steven Paul Sumner was an English-born, New Zealand footballer who played as a midfielder. He was captain of the national team during the country's first successful campaign to qualify for the World Cup, in 1982. He is also the first New Zealander to score in the World Cup, doing so in the 54th minute in New Zealand's 1982 opening game against Scotland."
tagline: "New Zealand footballer (1955–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Sumner_ONZM_investiture_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1955-04-02"
deathDate: "2017-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.13
  momentum:             14.17452830188679
  historical:           19.57380266666667
  currentAttention:     23.19182389937106
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  165
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стів Самнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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