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Persidafon Dafonsoro

association football team in Indonesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4430268 ↗
Source-derived summary

Persatuan Sepakbola Indonesia Dafonsoro, commonly known as Persidafon, is an Indonesian football club based in Jayapura Regency, Papua. The club was founded in 1970. The traditional team home kit is a black and white striped shirt that resembes the Juventus shirt. They currently compete in the Liga 4 and their home stadium is Barnabas Youwe Stadium.

The club is named after the Dafonsoro Mountains (also known as Cyclops Mountains) in Jayapura Regency.

Players

Current squad

As of 24 March 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Manager

The team is currently managed by Gerald R. Pangkali. A prominent figure in Indonesian football, Pangkali is widely recognized for his long-standing career as a versatile midfielder in the top flight of the Indonesian league system, most notably with Persipura Jayapura.

His transition into coaching with Persidafon Dafonsoro brings a wealth of tactical experience and leadership to the squad.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Persidafon Dafonsoro” is association football team in Indonesia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Persidafon, Dafonsoro and association, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970. For this dossier, Persidafon, Dafonsoro and association is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “association football team in Indonesia” 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

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4430268. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 2026.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Persidafon Dafonsoro”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Persidafon Dafonsoro primary sources, Persidafon Dafonsoro archive and Persidafon research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Persidafon Dafonsoro”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from “Persidafon Dafonsoro” 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.