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Atli Þór Héðinsson

Icelandic footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ4816929 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atli Þór Héðinsson (born 23 September 1953) is an Icelandic former footballer who played as a forward. He won two caps for the Iceland national football team in 1974.

Atli made his international debut in the 2–2 draw with Finland on 19 August 1974. He played his second and final match for Iceland almost two months later, in the 1–1 draw away at East Germany.

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“Atli Þór Héðinsson” enters the record as icelandic footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Atli, Héðinsson and Icelandic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1953, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-09-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Atli, Héðinsson and Icelandic.
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Why this record matters

“Atli Þór Héðinsson” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Atli, Héðinsson and Icelandic provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Mar 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4816929. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1974.

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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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atli Þór Héðinsson” 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.