# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kanerva
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:51.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kanerva"
name: "William Kanerva"
slug: "william-kanerva"
description: "Yrjö William Kanerva was a Finnish international footballer who earned 51 caps at international level between 1922 and 1938, scoring 13 goals. Kanerva played club football for HJK and HPS, and he competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics. In Mestaruussarja he played 113 matches and scored 33 times for HPS. In total he scored 55 goals for them, rest of the goals coming in cup-formatted Finnish championship tournaments. For HJK he scored 11 goals in 3 tournaments."
tagline: "Finnish footballer and speed skater (1902-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamKanerva.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1902-11-26"
deathDate: "1956-10-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.01
  momentum:             15.30816640986133
  historical:           7.870014666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Канерва, Вильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%DA%A4%D8%A7"
    title: "ويليام كانيرڤا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ویلیام کانروا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kanerva"
    title: "William Kanerva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2331707"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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