# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-mclean
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:58.534Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-mclean"
name: "Willie McLean"
slug: "willie-mclean"
description: "William Stewart Lang was a soccer player who played as a winger. A dominant player through the 1930s and a member of the U.S. national team at the 1934 FIFA World Cup, McLean disappeared without a trace in 1938. His disappearance remained a mystery until June 2022, when an investigation by The Athletic's Pablo Maurer and Matt Pentz uncovered the details behind that disappearance; McLean had suffered a nervous breakdown after multiple head injuries and lived out the last 40 years of his life in a series of public mental health facilities."
tagline: "American soccer player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/National_Champion_Stix_forward_line_(April_1933).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1904-01-27"
deathDate: "1977-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.53
  momentum:             5.749945418819591
  historical:           12.88092266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D0%BB%D1%96_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Віллі Маклейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ويلي مكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%85%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ويلى مكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean_(soccer%2C_born_1904)"
    title: "Willie McLean (soccer, born 1904)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویلی مک‌لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean_(labdar%C3%BAg%C3%B3%2C_1904)"
    title: "Willie McLean (labdarúgó, 1904)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_McLean"
    title: "Willie McLean"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Маклейн, Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD_(%D1%84%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_1904)"
    title: "Вили Маклин (фудбалер, 1904)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2631649"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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