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Boyas

Footballer (1969-2010)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ7121705 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pablo Ndong Esi (1969 – 15 December 2010), better known as Boyas, was an Equatoguinean football goalkeeper and manager.

The stadium located in Sampaka, a town between Luba and Malabo, is called "Estadio Pablo Boyas" as a posthumous honor.

International career

Boyas was with the Equatoguinean senior team in 2002, when he participated of an Africa Cup of Nations 2004 Qualifying match against Sierra Leone on 8 September. In turn, he was substitute in an Africa Cup of Nations 2008 Qualifying match against Cameroon on 7 October 2006.

Boyas also had B matches in 1999, playing the UNIFAC Cup.

Death

Boyas was killed, alongside the Equatoguinean women's international footballer Téclaire Bille and her eldest brother on 15 December 2010, in a road accident between Yaoundé and Douala in Cameroon. He was the head coach of Deportivo Mongomo.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Boyas” as footballer (1969-2010). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Boyas, Footballer and 1969-2010.

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—1969, 2010, 2002, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Boyas, Footballer and 1969-2010 providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 7, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7121705. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 2010, 2002 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Boyas” 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.