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Alex Namazaba

association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 5, 2024
Entity authorityQ16527624 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alex Namazaba (born 5 May 1973) is a Zambian footballer. He played in 13 matches for the Zambia national football team from 1995 to 1999. He was also named in Zambia's squad for the 1996 African Cup of Nations tournament.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alex Namazaba” as association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alex, Namazaba and association.

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—1973, 1995, 1999, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-05-05. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alex, Namazaba and association providing the first useful test.
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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 Oct 5, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16527624. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1995, 1999 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alex Namazaba” 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.