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Mostafa Meshaal (footballer)

Qatari footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ78859474 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mostafa Tarek Meshaal (Arabic: مُصْطَفَى طَارِق مَشْعَل; born 28 March 2001) is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for KAS Eupen of Belgium's Challenger Pro League, on loan from Al-Sadd and the Qatar national team.

Club career

Meshaal began his professional career with Al-Sadd SC in 2019. In February 2023, he joined Al-Shamal SC. On January 21st, 2026, he signed with K.A.S. Eupen of Belgium's Challenger Pro League.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mostafa Meshaal (footballer)” is qatari footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mostafa, Meshaal and footballer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2001, 2019, 2023, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-03-28. For this dossier, Mostafa, Meshaal and footballer is the immediate research focus.
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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 Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q78859474. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2019, 2023 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mostafa Meshaal (footballer)” 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.