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Hiroki Kobayashi (footballer, born 1992)

Japanese association football player (born 1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ20641076 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hiroki Kobayashi (born December 29, 1992) is a Japanese footballer who currently plays for Kitsap Pumas in the Premier Development League.

Career

College

Kobayashi spent his entire college career at Harvard University. He made a total of 61 appearances for the Crimson and tallied seven goals and four assists.

Professional

On March 14, 2015, Kobayashi joined PDL club Kitsap Pumas for the 2015. He made his debut for the club on June 14 in a 1–0 victory over Puget Sound Gunners FC. On June 25, Kobayashi, along with Nick Hamer and Mike Ramos, was loaned to USL club Seattle Sounders FC 2.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hiroki Kobayashi (footballer, born 1992)” as japanese association football player (born 1992). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1992, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-12-26. The account is most persuasive where Hiroki, Kobayashi and footballer can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as japanese association football player (born 1992). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20641076. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 2015.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Questions for further research

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  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Hiroki Kobayashi (footballer, born 1992)” 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.