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José Manuel León

Spanish association football player (1944-2020)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ5942148 ↗
Source-derived summary

José Manuel León Talavera (15 May 1944 – 15 February 2020), was a Spanish footballer and coach who played for UD Las Palmas. José Manuel León played for Las Palmas for 13 years.

Post career

After retiring from professional football Manuel León coached various teams at the Segunda División B level.

Editorial summary

“José Manuel León” enters the record as spanish association football player (1944-2020). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what José, Manuel and León can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1944-05-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around José, Manuel and León.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“José Manuel León” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, José, Manuel and León 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 Nov 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5942148. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1944 and 2020.

Critical limits

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “José Manuel León” 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.