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Gilbert Fesselet

Swiss footballer (1928–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3764196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gilbert Fesselet (16 April 1928 – 27 April 2022) was a Swiss football defender who played for Switzerland in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for FC La Chaux-de-Fonds and FC Lausanne-Sport.

Fesselet died on 27 April 2022, at the age of 94. He was the last surviving player from the Swiss team in 1954 World Cup.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gilbert Fesselet” is swiss footballer (1928–2022). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gilbert, Fesselet and Swiss, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2022, 1954—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-04-16. For this dossier, Gilbert, Fesselet and Swiss is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “swiss footballer (1928–2022)” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3764196. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2022 and 1954.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gilbert Fesselet” 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.