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Joop Lankhaar

Dutch footballer and manager

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ1475047 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joep Lankhaar (born 12 September 1966 in Alphen aan den Rijn) is a Dutch former footballer.

Club career

Lankhaar played for FC Den Haag, who signed him from amateur club ARC, and Dordrecht'90 in the Netherlands as well as Racing Mechelen and Lierse in Belgium.

International career

He made one appearance for the Netherlands national football team in the UEFA Euro 1988 qualifying campaign in a 3-0 win over Greece on 16 December 1987 in Rhodes.

Editorial summary

“Joop Lankhaar” enters the record as dutch footballer and manager. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Joop, Lankhaar and Dutch 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—1966, 1988, 1987—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1966-09-12, 1966-06-12—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Joop, Lankhaar and Dutch.
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Why this record matters

“Joop Lankhaar” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Joop, Lankhaar and Dutch 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 May 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1475047. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1988 and 1987.

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 “Joop Lankhaar” 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.