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Armando Diena

Italian footballer (1914-1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ2862077 ↗
Source-derived summary

Armando Diena (8 April 1914 – 1 July 1985), also known as Diena II, was an Italian professional football midfielder. He played for the Juventus national football team from 1930 to 1933 and again from 1934 to 1936.

Diena died on 1 July 1985, at the age of 71.

Honours

Serie A champion: 1934/35.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Armando Diena” as italian footballer (1914-1985). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1914, 1985, 1930, 1933—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-04-08. The account is most persuasive where Armando, Diena and Italian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as italian footballer (1914-1985). 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 May 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2862077. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 1985, 1930 and 1933.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Armando Diena”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Armando Diena primary sources, Armando Diena archive and Armando research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  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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  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Armando Diena” 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.