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Toninho (footballer, born 1965)

Brazilian association football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ128276 ↗
Source-derived summary

Antônio Benedito da Silva (born March 23, 1965), nicknamed Toninho, is a former Brazilian football player who played for Portuguesa (Brazil), Guarani (Brazil), Yomiuri (Japan), Shimizu S-Pulse (Japan), Urawa Red Diamonds (Japan) and Vasco da Gama (Brazil). He played for the Brazil national team one time.

Club statistics

National team statistics

Honors

Campeonato Paulista Top Scorer: 1989 with 12 goals

Japan Soccer League Top Scorer: 1991-92 with 18 goals in 22 games

Japan Soccer League Best Eleven: 1991-92

Trivia

His younger brother is Sonny Anderson.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Toninho (footballer, born 1965)” as brazilian association football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1989, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-03-23. The account is most persuasive where Toninho, footballer and born 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 association football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jan 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q128276. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1989 and 1991.

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.

How to read it

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Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Toninho (footballer, born 1965)” 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.