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Rodrigo (footballer, born 1971)

Brazilian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ11891093 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rodrigo Martins Vaz, known as Rodrigo (born 24 May 1971), is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder for several clubs in Finnish Veikkausliiga and one season for USM Blida in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1. He played a total of 181 Veikkausliiga caps and scored 44 goals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Rodrigo (footballer, born 1971)” is brazilian association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Rodrigo, footballer and born, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-05-24. For this dossier, Rodrigo, footballer and born is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “brazilian association football player” 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 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11891093. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. 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.

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Rodrigo (footballer, born 1971)” 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.