CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Roberto Zárate

Argentine association football player (1932-2013)

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ2403202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roberto Héctor Zárate (15 December 1932 – 6 November 2013) was an Argentine footballer. He played in 15 matches for the Argentina national football team from 1956 to 1963. He was also named in Argentina's squad for the qualification tournament for the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Career

River Plate 1951–1961

Banfield 1961–1967

Audax Italiano 1968–1969

Personal life

Zárate was nicknamed Mono (Monkey). He was the father of the footballer Roberto Oscar Zárate, nicknamed Monito (Little Monkey).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Roberto Zárate” is argentine association football player (1932-2013). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Roberto, Zárate and Argentine, 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—1932, 2013, 1956, 1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1932-12-15. For this dossier, Roberto, Zárate and Argentine is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “argentine association football player (1932-2013)” 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

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 Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2403202. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1932, 2013, 1956 and 1963.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Roberto Zárate”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Roberto Zárate primary sources, Roberto Zárate archive and Roberto 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 “Roberto Zárate”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Roberto Zárate” 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.