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Nilton Mendes

Brazilian footballer (1976-2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ715313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nilton Pereira Mendes or simply Mendes (January 7, 1976 – September 18, 2006) was a Brazilian professional footballer. He was born in Governador Valadares.

Death

Mendes collapsed on the pitch during a training match for his club FC Shakhter Karagandy and died on the way to the hospital at Karagandy.

Honours

Club

Irtysh

Kazakhstan Premier League winner (1): 1999.

Kazakhstan Premier League bronze (1): 2000.

Astana-1964

Kazakhstan Premier League bronze (1): 2003.

Kazakhstan Cup winner (2): 2002, 2005

Kazakhstan Cup runner-up (1): 2001

Individual

Kazakhstan Premier League top scorer: 2000 (21 goals).

Kazakhstan Premier League best foreign player: 2002.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nilton Mendes” is brazilian footballer (1976-2006). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nilton, Mendes and Brazilian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1976, 2006, 1999, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-07. For this dossier, Nilton, Mendes and Brazilian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian footballer (1976-2006)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q715313. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2006, 1999 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nilton Mendes” 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.