# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-buffel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:56:38.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-buffel"
name: "Thomas Buffel"
slug: "thomas-buffel"
description: "Thomas Buffel is a Belgian professional football coach and a former player who played as an attacking midfielder or forward. He is the manager of Jong Genk in Challenger Pro League. He represented the Belgium national team at international level."
tagline: "Belgian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Buffel.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1981-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.34020618556701
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.thomasbuffel.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump