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João Oliveira (footballer, born 1992)

Portuguese association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ20974205 ↗
Source-derived summary

João Ribeiro Oliveira (born 3 January 1992) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Liga Portugal 2 club Académica de Coimbra as a midfielder.

Football career

On 2 August 2015, Oliveira made his professional debut with Olhanense in a 2015–16 Taça da Liga match against Penafiel.

On 30 July 2020, Oliveira signed a two-year contract with Polish club Zagłębie Sosnowiec.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “João Oliveira (footballer, born 1992)” is portuguese association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through João, Oliveira 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—1992, 2015, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-01-03. For this dossier, João, Oliveira and footballer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “portuguese association football player” 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

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20974205. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2015 and 2020.

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 Oliveira (footballer, born 1992)” 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.