# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zach-thornton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:36.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zach-thornton"
name: "Zach Thornton"
slug: "zach-thornton"
description: "Zach Thornton is an American soccer player who is goalkeeping coach for Chicago Fire FC. A goalkeeper, he spent 16 seasons in Major League Soccer with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (1996–97), Chicago Fire (1998–2006), Colorado Rapids (2007), New York Red Bulls (2008) and Chivas USA (2008–11). He was the starting goalkeeper for the Fire when it won MLS Cup '98 in its inaugural year. He, Chris Armas, and C. J. Brown are the only three Fire players to be a part of all six of the club's domestic championships from 1998 through 2006."
tagline: "American soccer player (born 1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zthorton.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: "1973-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.096978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "زیک تھورنٹن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زاك ثورنتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "زاك ثورنتون (لاعب كورة قدم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Thornton"
    title: "Zach Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Thornton"
    title: "Zach Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Thornton"
    title: "Zach Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Thornton"
    title: "Zach Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Thornton"
    title: "Zach Thornton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Торнтон, Зак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3294357"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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