# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wynton-rufer
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:23.154Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wynton-rufer"
name: "Wynton Rufer"
slug: "wynton-rufer"
description: "Wynton Alan Whai Rufer is a New Zealand retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent more than a decade of his professional career in Switzerland and Germany, achieving his greatest success at Werder Bremen, where he won a total of four major titles and finished the top scorer in the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League. He was also a member of the New Zealand national team in its first FIFA World Cup appearance in 1982. He was named the Oceania Footballer of the Century by the Oceania Football Confederation."
tagline: "New Zealand association football player"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1962-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  172
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-country-fill