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Jonathan Quartey (footballer, born 1984)

Ghanaian football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ14333541 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jonathan Quartey (born 30 July 1984), also known as Lê Văn Tân, is a Ghanaian former footballer who played as a striker.

He was granted Vietnamese citizenship in 2011, under the name Lê Văn Tân.

In February 2018, he moved to India and signed with Gokulam Kerala.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jonathan Quartey (footballer, born 1984)” is ghanaian football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jonathan, Quartey and footballer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1984, 2011, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-07-30. For this dossier, Jonathan, Quartey and footballer is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “ghanaian 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

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 Apr 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q14333541. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984, 2011 and 2018.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan Quartey (footballer, born 1984)” 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.