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Pirjo Leppikangas

association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ14161346 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pirjo Elise Leppikangas (born 12 September 1987) is a Finnish football defender. She plays for PK-35 Vantaa in the Naisten Liiga.

Club career

Leppikangas has played for PK-35 Vantaa since their second division days and is their captain. In 2010, she played varsity soccer for Campbell Fighting Camels.

International career

She was called up to be part of the national team for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013.

Editorial summary

“Pirjo Leppikangas” enters the record as association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pirjo, Leppikangas and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1987, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-09-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pirjo, Leppikangas and association.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Pirjo Leppikangas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pirjo, Leppikangas and association provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Feb 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14161346. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2010 and 2013.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pirjo Leppikangas” 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.