# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-matfield
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:23.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-matfield"
name: "Victor Matfield"
slug: "victor-matfield"
description: "Victor Matfield is a South African former professional rugby union player. He played for and captained the South Africa national team (Springboks) as well as the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup and the Bulls franchise in Super Rugby. He is generally considered one of the best locks to have ever played for South Africa and had a long successful partnership with Springbok and Blue Bulls teammate Bakkies Botha."
tagline: "South Africa international rugby union player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_Matfield_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1977-05-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             8.066298342541433
  historical:           10.81976933333333
  currentAttention:     44.81276856967463
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Виктор Метфилд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89"
    title: "ヴィクター・マットフィールド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Matfield"
    title: "Victor Matfield"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067610"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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