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Maurice Slater

Irish footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ69810979 ↗
Source-derived summary

Maurice Slater is an Irish former association football player who played as a defender.

Career

Slater was part of the roster of the North American Soccer League (NASL) team Washington Diplomats, usually wearing the number three shirt. He played one season with the Dips in the 1974 NASL season, making five appearances and registering one assist. The Diplomats would finish last in the Eastern Division.

Editorial summary

“Maurice Slater” enters the record as irish footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Maurice, Slater and Irish 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—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Maurice, Slater and Irish.
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“Maurice Slater” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Maurice, Slater and Irish 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 May 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q69810979. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Maurice Slater” 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.