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Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)

Brazilian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ10309114 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Carlos Pessanha (born 29 April 1955), known as Zé Carlos, is a Brazilian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)” as brazilian association football player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carlos, footballer and born.

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—1955, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-04-29. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carlos, footballer and born providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)”, the useful work is to connect “brazilian association football player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10309114. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955 and 1976.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955) primary sources, Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955) archive and Carlos research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Zé Carlos (footballer, born 1955)” 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.