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Thomas Libiih

Cameroonian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ2439687 ↗
Source-derived summary

Thomas Libiih (born 17 November 1967) is a Cameroonian former footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for various clubs, including Tonnerre Yaoundé and Ohud Medina. He also participated in the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups with the Cameroon national football team.

Libiih had a brief spell with LDU Portoviejo in Ecuador.

He works as a coach at FC Lotus-Terek Yaoundé, a Cameroonian farm team of Russian FC Terek Grozny, created by Guy Stephane Essame.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Thomas Libiih” is cameroonian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Thomas, Libiih and Cameroonian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1990, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-11-17. For this dossier, Thomas, Libiih and Cameroonian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “cameroonian footballer” 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 Jun 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2439687. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1990 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Libiih” 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.