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Carmelo Garrido Alarcón

Spanish paralympic footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ13424880 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carmelo Garrido Alarcón (born 12 September 1971 in Puertollano, Ciudad Real) is a 5-a-side football player from Spain. He has a disability: he is blind. He played 5-a-side football at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. His team finished third after they played Greece and, won 2–0.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Carmelo Garrido Alarcón” is spanish paralympic footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Carmelo, Garrido and Alarcón, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1971, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-09-12. For this dossier, Carmelo, Garrido and Alarcón is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “spanish paralympic 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 Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q13424880. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 2004.

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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This entry incorporates text from “Carmelo Garrido Alarcón” 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.