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Eugène Kabongo

Congolese footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2447445 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eugène Kabongo Ngoy (born 3 November 1960) is a Congolese former professional footballer who played as a forward for R.F.C. Seraing, RC Paris, Anderlecht, Olympique Lyonnais and Bastia.

Career statistics

International

Scores and results list DR Congo's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kabongo goal.

Editorial summary

“Eugène Kabongo” enters the record as congolese footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eugène, Kabongo and Congolese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-11-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eugène, Kabongo and Congolese.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Eugène Kabongo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eugène, Kabongo and Congolese 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 May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2447445. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960.

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 “Eugène Kabongo” 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.