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Georges Vuilleumier

Swiss footballer (1944–1988)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ2001681 ↗
Source-derived summary

Georges Vuilleumier (21 September 1944 – 29 July 1988) was a Swiss footballer who played as a forward.

Career

Born in Tramelan, Canton of Bern, Vuilleumier began his football career with FC La Chaux-de-Fonds where he won the Nationalliga A in 1964.

He played 19 times and scored 2 goals for Switzerland between 14 November 1964 and 18 November 1973. He was an unused substitute at the 1966 World Cup.

Editorial summary

“Georges Vuilleumier” enters the record as swiss footballer (1944–1988). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Georges, Vuilleumier and Swiss 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—1944, 1988, 1964, 1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-09-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Georges, Vuilleumier and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Georges Vuilleumier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Georges, Vuilleumier and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2001681. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944, 1988, 1964 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “Georges Vuilleumier” 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.