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Ricardo Díaz (footballer)

Salvadoran footballer (1939-2011)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ7322613 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ricardo Díaz Bach (6 September 1939 – 8 August 2011) was a Salvadoran footballer.

Club career

Nicknamed el Nene, Díaz played club football in El Salvador, before going to Chile to play professionally at Universidad de Concepción and C.D. Huachipato.

International career

Díaz was part of the El Salvador national football team that won Central American and Caribbean games in 1956.

Editorial summary

“Ricardo Díaz (footballer)” enters the record as salvadoran footballer (1939-2011). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ricardo, Díaz and footballer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1939, 2011, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-09-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ricardo, Díaz and footballer.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Ricardo Díaz (footballer)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ricardo, Díaz and footballer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7322613. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 2011 and 1956.

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ricardo Díaz (footballer)” 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.