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Henk Vriens

Dutch football player (1943–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ3193216 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hendrikus Lodevicus Adrianus Antonius Vriens (26 October 1943 – 22 May 2022) was a Dutch footballer who played as a midfielder. He made one appearance for the Netherlands national team in 1963.

Death

Vriens died on 22 May 2022, at the age of 78.

Editorial summary

“Henk Vriens” enters the record as dutch football player (1943–2022). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henk, Vriens and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2022, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-10-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Henk, Vriens and Dutch.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Henk Vriens” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Henk, Vriens and Dutch 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 Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3193216. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943, 2022 and 1963.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  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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This entry incorporates text from “Henk Vriens” 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.