# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentin-poparlan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:55:05.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentin-poparlan"
name: "Valentin Popârlan"
slug: "valentin-poparlan"
description: "Valentin Popârlan is a Romanian rugby union player. He plays in the lock and occasionally flanker position for professional SuperLiga club Timișoara and București based European Challenge Cup side the Wolves. Popârlan also plays for Romania's national team the Oaks."
tagline: "Romanian rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Valentin_Pop%C3%A2rlan_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1987-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           33.51
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.600936
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Pop%C3%A2rlan"
    title: "Valentin Popârlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Pop%C3%AErlan"
    title: "Valentin Popîrlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9D%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "バレンティン・ポパルラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Pop%C3%A2rlan"
    title: "Valentin Popârlan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Валентин Попирлан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16231889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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