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Christopher Musonda

Zambian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ5112929
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Christopher Musonda (born January 24, 1986) is a retired Zambian football player. Characterized as a pacy forward, Musonda could also play as a winger.

He was capped for Zambia and played abroad in Finland and Botswana. Musonda and eight other RoPS players got sacked in the spring of 2011 due to match fixing scandal.

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The public source identifies “Christopher Musonda” as zambian footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Christopher, Musonda and Zambian.

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—1986, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-01-24. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Christopher, Musonda and Zambian providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Christopher Musonda”, the useful work is to connect “zambian footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Dec 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5112929. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from Christopher Musonda” 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.