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David Velásquez

Honduran footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ3728743 ↗
Source-derived summary

José David Velásquez Colón (born 8 December 1989) is a Honduran footballer who plays for Victoria in the Honduran first division.

Club career

Velásquez started his career with hometown club Victoria and has not changed clubs since. In December 2012 however, it was rumoured Velásquez was ready to join Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC.

International career

Velásquez was picked for the Honduras Olympic team which competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. He made his senior debut for Honduras in an April 2012 friendly match against Costa Rica and has, as of February 2013, earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “David Velásquez” as honduran footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2012, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-12-08. The account is most persuasive where David, Velásquez and Honduran can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as honduran footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3728743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 2012 and 2013.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “David Velásquez” 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.