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Hermes (footballer, born 1925)

Brazilian footballer (1925–2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ124518105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hermes Nunes da Conceição (19 December 1925 – 27 June 2011), simply known as Hermes, was a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward.

Career

A striker, Hermes played for Grêmio where he made 100 appearances and scored 65 goals, and for Flamengo where he played 72 matches and scored 52 goals. He also defended the state team of Rio Grande do Sul and the Brazilian military team.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hermes (footballer, born 1925)” as brazilian footballer (1925–2011). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hermes, footballer and born.

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—1925, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-12-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hermes, footballer and born providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hermes (footballer, born 1925)”, the useful work is to connect “brazilian footballer (1925–2011)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Sep 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q124518105. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hermes (footballer, born 1925)” 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.