# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-mattus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:23:16.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-mattus"
name: "William Mattus"
slug: "william-mattus"
description: "William Mattus Vega is a Costa Rican former football referee, best known for supervising two matches during the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in Japan and South Korea. As of 2022, Mattus was the last Costa Rican to officiate a match at a FIFA World Cup as a central referee until the designation of Juan Gabriel Calderón for the 2026 FIFA World Cup."
tagline: "Costa Rican football referee"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1964-04-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.951048951048952
  historical:           7.876422666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام ماتوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%88%DA%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "ویلیام ماتوس وگا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mattus"
    title: "William Mattus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1062075"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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