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João Benedito

Portuguese futsal player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6298050 ↗
Source-derived summary

João Paulo Feliciano Neves Benedito (born 7 October 1978) is a retired Portuguese futsal player. He played as a goalkeeper for Sporting CP, Playas de Castellón and the Portugal national team.

Editorial summary

“João Benedito” enters the record as portuguese futsal player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what João, Benedito and Portuguese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-10-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around João, Benedito and Portuguese.
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Why this record matters

“João Benedito” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, João, Benedito and Portuguese provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6298050. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 Benedito” 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.