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Fadel Gobitaka

Belgian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ22002036
Source-derived summary

Fadel Gobitaka (born 16 January 1998) is a professional footballer who plays for Ligue 3 club Thionville. He plays as a forward. Born in Belgium, he has represented Togo at youth international level.

Club career

Gobitaka is a youth exponent from Standard Liège. On 27 December 2015, he made his Belgian Pro League debut with Standard Liège against Royal Mouscron-Péruwelz.

In the summer 2019, he joined Dutch club Roda JC Kerkrade and was in the first place registered for the Jong-squad. However, he played two games for Roda in the Eerste Divisie. In May 2020 it was confirmed, that Gobitaka would join FC Differdange 03 from the 2020–21 season.

On 1 September 2021, Gobitaka joined RAAL La Louvière on a one-year deal. After promotion to the Belgian National Division 1 was secured, he signed a contract extension until 2023.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Fadel Gobitaka” is belgian association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Fadel, Gobitaka and Belgian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2015, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-01-16. For this dossier, Fadel, Gobitaka and Belgian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “belgian association football player” 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 Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22002036. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2015, 2019 and 2020.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 Fadel Gobitaka” 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.