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Mirko Bonačić

Croatian footballer (1903-1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6418296 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mirko Bonačić (19 March 1903 – 18 October 1989) was a Croatian footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

International career

He made his debut for Yugoslavia in a September 1924 friendly match against Czechoslovakia and earned a total of 6 caps scoring 3 goals. His final international was a May 1928 Olympic Games match against Portugal in Amsterdam.

Editorial summary

“Mirko Bonačić” enters the record as croatian footballer (1903-1989). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mirko, Bonačić and Croatian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1989, 1928, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mirko, Bonačić and Croatian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Mirko Bonačić” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mirko, Bonačić and Croatian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6418296. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1989, 1928 and 1924.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Mirko Bonačić” 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.