# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/younis-mahmoud
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:37:19.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/younis-mahmoud"
name: "Younis Mahmoud"
slug: "younis-mahmoud"
description: "Younis Mahmoud Khalaf is an Iraqi former professional footballer who played as a forward for the Iraq national team and is currently the president of the Iraq Football Association. One of the country's greatest ever players, Mahmoud captained the team for ten consecutive years and became an icon of Asian football. He also played for a number of clubs in the Iraqi Premier League, the UAE Arabian Gulf League, the Qatar Stars League and the Saudi Pro League, and is the only foreign player to have won three top scorer awards in Qatar."
tagline: "Iraqi footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Younis_Mahmoud_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1983-03-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.87
  momentum:             25
  historical:           21.76183733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "younismahmoud10"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/younismahmoud/"
    handle:    "younismahmoud"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Younis Mahmoud"
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    title: "Younis Mahmoud"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Younis Mahmoud"
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    title: "Younis Mahmoud"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump