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Mervyn Richards

Antiguan association footballer and cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ20653328 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mervyn Richards is a former Antiguan international footballer and cricketer.

He played for Antigua and Barbuda in their 1986 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign, featuring in two games against Haiti in August 1984; a 2–1 victory and a 4–0 loss.

He is the younger brother of cricketer Viv Richards. From 2004 to 2008, he served as president of the Antigua and Barbuda Football Association.

Editorial summary

“Mervyn Richards” enters the record as antiguan association footballer and cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mervyn, Richards and Antiguan 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—1986, 1984, 2004, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-11-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mervyn, Richards and Antiguan.
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Why this record matters

“Mervyn Richards” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mervyn, Richards and Antiguan 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 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20653328. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1984, 2004 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mervyn Richards” 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.