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Lelé

Brazilian association football player (1918-2003)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ4359900 ↗
Source-derived summary

Manoel Pessanha (23 March 1918 – 16 August 2003), known as Lelé, was a Brazilian footballer who played as a forward. He made four matches for the Brazil national team from 1940 to 1945. He was also part of Brazil's squad for the 1946 South American Championship.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lelé” is brazilian association football player (1918-2003). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lelé, Brazilian and association, 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—1918, 2003, 1940, 1945—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1918-03-23. For this dossier, Lelé, Brazilian and association is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian association football player (1918-2003)” 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

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 Nov 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4359900. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1918, 2003, 1940 and 1945.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Lelé”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Lelé primary sources, Lelé archive and Lelé research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Lelé”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Lelé” 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.