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Philip Tear

Swedish footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ113561061 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jaan Philip Tear (born 16 August 1998) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Portuguese Campeonato de Portugal side Portimonense B.

Career

Tear started his career with Swedish sixth tier side FC Djursholm. In 2016, he signed for Rayo Cantabria in the Spanish fourth tier.

In 2021, Tear signed a two-year deal with Primeira Liga club Tondela. In June 2023, Tondela announced Tear's departure from the club, after his contract expired.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Philip Tear” is swedish footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Philip, Tear and Swedish, 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—1998, 2016, 2021, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-08-16. For this dossier, Philip, Tear and Swedish is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “swedish footballer” 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 Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113561061. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2016, 2021 and 2023.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Philip Tear” 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.