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Aldrin Muscat (footballer)

Maltese association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ17328829 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aldrin Muscat (born 11 September 1971) is a retired footballer, who represented the Malta national team.

Club career

During his career, he most notably played as a striker for Żurrieq and Sliema Wanderers. With Sliema, he became the Maltese Premier League top goalscorer in the 1995-96 season.

International career

Muscat earned two caps for Malta in 1996, both in friendly matches away against Macedonia and Iceland.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Aldrin Muscat (footballer)” as maltese association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aldrin, Muscat and footballer.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1995, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-09-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aldrin, Muscat and footballer providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Aldrin Muscat (footballer)”, the useful work is to connect “maltese association football player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17328829. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1995 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aldrin Muscat (footballer)” 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.