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Allan Søgaard

Danish footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ4731001 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allan Søgaard (born 20 January 1978) is a Danish former football player, spent his entire career playing for the Danish Superliga side AC Horsens. His normal position was as a defensive midfielder. He was known as a pacy player, with a major dedication to his team.

Søgaard played a huge part in AC Horsens' promotion to the Superliga in 2005, and kept up his importance for the team during the first Superliga season. However, due to injury, he was out of the team during entire 2007.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Allan Søgaard” is danish footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Allan, Søgaard and Danish, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1978, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-20. For this dossier, Allan, Søgaard and Danish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “danish 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 May 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4731001. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2005 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allan Søgaard” 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.