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André Luís Guimarães Fonseca

Brazilian basketball player (born 1969)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ3616473 ↗
Source-derived summary

André Luís Guimarães Fonseca (born 4 March 1969), also commonly known as Ratto, is a Brazilian former professional basketball player and coach.

Career

With the senior Brazilian national basketball team, Ratto He at the 1994 FIBA World Cup, the 1996 Summer Olympics, and the 1998 FIBA World Cup. After his basketball playing career ended, Ratto began a career working as a basketball coach.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “André Luís Guimarães Fonseca” as brazilian basketball player (born 1969). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1969, 1994, 1996, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-03-04. The account is most persuasive where André, Luís and Guimarães can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as brazilian basketball player (born 1969). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3616473. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1994, 1996 and 1998.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “André Luís Guimarães Fonseca” 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.