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Mohamed Abou Habaga

Egyptian association football player (1921–1987)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ45383394 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohamed Tawfiq Abou Habaga (21 May 1921 – 1 July 1987) was an Egyptian footballer who played as a midfielder. He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Mohamed Abou Habaga” enters the record as egyptian association football player (1921–1987). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mohamed, Abou and Habaga 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—1921, 1987, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1921-05-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mohamed, Abou and Habaga.
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Why this record matters

“Mohamed Abou Habaga” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mohamed, Abou and Habaga 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 Oct 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q45383394. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1921, 1987 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohamed Abou Habaga” 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.