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Club Martín Ledesma

association football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ576189 ↗
Source-derived summary

Club General Martín Ledesma, is a Paraguayan football club based in the city of Capiatá in the Central Department. The club was founded 22 September 1914 and plays in Primera División B Metropolitana, one of the third-tier leagues of the Paraguayan football league system. Their home games are played at the Estadio Enrique Soler.

History

The club was founded on September 22, 1914 in the building of the Graduada Doble School under the supervision of the school director Mr. Enrique Soler. In the meeting, it was decided to create an institution to develop the practice of sports in the city of Capiatá and the name "General Martín Ledesma Football Club" was chosen for the institution in honor of the founder of the mentioned city, General Don Martín Ledesma de Balderrama.

The first ever board in 1914 consisted of:

President: Mr. Juan R. Alcaraz

Vice President: Mr. Juan B Salcedo

Secretary: Mr. Venancio Trinidad

Treasurer: Mr.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Club Martín Ledesma” as association football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Club, Martín and Ledesma can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as association football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 22, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q576189. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914.

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Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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 “Club Martín Ledesma” 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.