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Locó (footballer)

Angolan footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ954183 ↗
Source-derived summary

Manuel Armindo Morais Cange (born 25 December 1984), commonly known as Locó, is a retired Angolan footballer who last played as a right back for Santos Futebol Clube de Angola.

International career

Locó was a member of his national team, and was called up to the 2006 World Cup.

National team statistics

International goals

Scores and results list Angola's goal tally first.

Editorial summary

“Locó (footballer)” enters the record as angolan footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Locó, footballer and Angolan 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—1984, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-12-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Locó, footballer and Angolan.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Locó (footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Locó, footballer and Angolan 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 Dec 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q954183. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2006.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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

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  2. Expand the search: follow Locó (footballer) primary sources, Locó (footballer) archive and Locó 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

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Locó (footballer)” 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.