# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teslim-balogun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:47.100Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teslim-balogun"
name: "Teslim Balogun"
slug: "teslim-balogun"
description: "Tesilimi Olawale Ayinde \"Teslim\" Balogun was a Nigerian football player and coach. Balogun played at both professional and international levels as a striker, before becoming Africa's first qualified professional football coach."
tagline: "Nigerian footballer (1927–1972)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1927"
deathDate: "1972-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.42
  momentum:             10.90121430915655
  historical:           4.877718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  209
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslim_Balogun"
    title: "Teslim Balogun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تيسليم بالوجون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslim_Balogun"
    title: "Teslim Balogun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslim_Balogun"
    title: "Teslim Balogun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslim_Balogun"
    title: "Teslim Balogun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teslim_Balogun"
    title: "Teslim Balogun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7705524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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