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João Marcos (footballer, born 1981)

Brazilian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ6298236 ↗
Source-derived summary

João Marcos Alves Ferreira (born 24 June 1981 in Marília), known as João Marcos, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Honours

Ceará

Campeonato Cearense: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Copa do Nordeste: 2015

References

External links

João Marcos at WorldFootball.net

"João Marcos". Ceará Sporting Club (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 27 October 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2020.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “João Marcos (footballer, born 1981)” is brazilian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through João, Marcos and footballer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1981, 2011, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-06-24. For this dossier, João, Marcos and footballer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Dec 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6298236. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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 “João Marcos (footballer, born 1981)” 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.