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Colombia national football team

Men's association football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Colombia national football team, nicknamed Los Cafeteros, represents Colombia in men's international association football. It is administered by the Colombian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Colombia. The federation has been affiliated with FIFA and CONMEBOL since 1936.

Editorial summary

“Colombia national football team” enters the record as men's association football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Colombia, national and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Colombia, national and football.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Colombia national football team” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Colombia, national and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1936.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Colombia national football team”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Colombia national football team primary sources, Colombia national football team archive and Colombia 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

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Colombia national football team”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Colombia national football team” 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.