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Acúrsio Carrelo

Portuguese footballer (1931-2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ45809
Source-derived summary

Acúrsio Freire Alves Carrelo (16 March 1931, in Lourenço Marques – 9 January 2010), better known as Acúrsio, was a Portuguese footballer. He played as a goalkeeper. He also had a rink hockey player career as a goalkeeper. He played for FC Porto.

Football career

Acúrsio gained 8 caps for Portugal and made his debut 20 May 1959 in Gothenburg against Sweden, in a 0-2 defeat. He played 4 matches in the 1960 European Nations' Cup qualification rounds.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Acúrsio Carrelo” is portuguese footballer (1931-2010). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Acúrsio, Carrelo and Portuguese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2010, 1959, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-03-16. For this dossier, Acúrsio, Carrelo and Portuguese is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “portuguese footballer (1931-2010)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q45809. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1931, 2010, 1959 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from Acúrsio Carrelo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.