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Aleksei Ilyin (footballer, born 1958)

Russian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ4715932 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aleksei Viktorovich Ilyin (Russian: Алексей Викторович Ильин; born 1 May 1958) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

Honours

1977 FIFA World Youth Championship winner with the Soviet Union national under-20 football team (started in all 5 games at the tournament).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Aleksei Ilyin (footballer, born 1958)” is russian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Aleksei, Ilyin and footballer, 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—1958, 1977—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Aleksei, Ilyin and footballer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “russian footballer” 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

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4715932. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aleksei Ilyin (footballer, born 1958)” 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.