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Jamal Al-Qabendi

Kuwaiti footballer (1959–2021)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ570708 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jamal Yaqoub Al-Qabendi (7 April 1959 in Kazmi – 13 April 2021) was a Kuwaiti footballer who played as a defender. He represented Kuwait in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Kazma Sporting Club.

He died on 13 April 2021 from diabetes-related complications.

Editorial summary

“Jamal Al-Qabendi” enters the record as kuwaiti footballer (1959–2021). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jamal, Al-Qabendi and Kuwaiti can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2021, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-04-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jamal, Al-Qabendi and Kuwaiti.
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Why this record matters

“Jamal Al-Qabendi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jamal, Al-Qabendi and Kuwaiti provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q570708. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2021 and 1982.

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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This entry incorporates text from “Jamal Al-Qabendi” 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.