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Goran Alar

Croatian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ5584404 ↗
Source-derived summary

Goran Alar (born 1 May 1962) is a Croatian retired professional association football striker.

Club career

He played for several Croatian and Austrian football teams. He scored 71 goals for FC Zeltweg. His son is Deni Alar.

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, Alar remained in Austria to coach lower league clubs Zeltweg and Weißkirchen.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Goran Alar” is croatian association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Goran, Alar and Croatian, 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—1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-05-01. For this dossier, Goran, Alar and Croatian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “croatian 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

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 Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5584404. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Goran Alar”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Goran Alar primary sources, Goran Alar archive and Goran 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

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  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Goran Alar” 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.