# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-cobbold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:03:10.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-cobbold"
name: "William Cobbold"
slug: "william-cobbold"
description: "William Nevill Cobbold, familiarly known as Nevill or \"Nuts\" Cobbold, was one of the leading footballers of the Victorian era and on several occasions a member of the England national football team. As late as 1922, at the time of his death, he could be described as \"the most famous association football forward of all time\", and certainly – in the words of his Times obituary – \"the most individually brilliant dribbler, the player who could most often put in those thrusts that no skill could parry\"."
tagline: "English footballer (1863-1922)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%22Nuts%22Cobbold.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: "1863-02-04"
deathDate: "1922-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.64
  momentum:             13.34125636672326
  historical:           5.472642666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ویلیام کوبولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF"
    title: "ويليام كوبولد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevill_Cobbold"
    title: "Nevill Cobbold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%84_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%DA%88"
    title: "نیول کوبولڈ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevill_Cobbold"
    title: "Nevill Cobbold"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Кобболд, Невилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6616644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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