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Alf Stamp

New Zealand association footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ4721762 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alf Stamp is a former football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level.

Stamp played four official full internationals for New Zealand in June and July 1979, making his debut as a substitute in a 0–1 loss to Australia on 13 June. He played two games against Fiji before gaining his final cap, also as a substitute in a 2–0 win over Australia on 23 July.

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The public source identifies “Alf Stamp” as new Zealand association footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Stamp, Zealand and association.

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—1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Stamp, Zealand and association providing the first useful test.
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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 Oct 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4721762. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alf Stamp” 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.