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Jalal Yousef

Venezuelan pool player, born 1979

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ19286423 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jalal Yousef Sulaimann (21 October 1979 – 12 April 2021) was a Venezuelan professional pool player, specifically nine-ball.

Career

Salaimann was primarily a nine-ball player, having competed at the WPA World Nine-ball Championships since 2013. His best result, however, was reaching the last 16 of the 2012 WPA World Eight-ball Championship. Jalal also competed at the 2013 World Games; losing in the last 16. Before his time in 9-ball, Yousef competed in the WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2010 and 2011.

On 12 April 2021, he died of COVID-19.

Editorial summary

“Jalal Yousef” enters the record as venezuelan pool player, born 1979. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jalal, Yousef and Venezuelan can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1979, 2021, 2013, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jalal, Yousef and Venezuelan.
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“Jalal Yousef” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jalal, Yousef and Venezuelan provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19286423. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2021, 2013 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jalal Yousef” 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.