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Fred (footballer, born 1949)

Brazilian association football player (1949–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ9263634 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frederico Rodrigues de Oliveira (4 April 1949 – 29 May 2022), known as just Fred, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a centre-back. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Fred (footballer, born 1949)” enters the record as brazilian association football player (1949–2022). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fred, footballer and born can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 2022, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-04-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fred, footballer and born.
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Why this record matters

“Fred (footballer, born 1949)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fred, footballer and born provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9263634. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 2022 and 1972.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Fred (footballer, born 1949)” 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.