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Mohamed Chaïb

Algerian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ3860100 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohamed Ali Chaïb (Arabic: محمد شعيب; born 20 May 1957) is an Algerian former footballer who played as a defender for the Algeria national team, including at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He also played for RC Kouba.

Doping mystery

In November 2011 Chaïb, who had three disabled daughters, and other of his World Cup Finals teammates called for an investigation into whether their children's disabilities had in any way to do with medication ordered to them by Algeria's Soviet coach Evgeni Rogov.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mohamed Chaïb” as algerian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1957, 1986, 2011—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1957-05-20, 1958-05-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Mohamed, Chaïb and Algerian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as algerian footballer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Aug 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3860100. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1986 and 2011.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohamed Chaïb” 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.