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Romain Philippoteaux

French association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ16673130 ↗
Source-derived summary

Romain Philippoteaux (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛ̃ filipɔto]; born 2 March 1988) is a former French professional footballer who played as a winger.

Career

On 28 June 2019, it was confirmed, that Philippoteaux had signed a three-year contract with Nîmes Olympique.

On 3 September 2021, he returned to Dijon on a season-long loan.

On 6 September 2022, he signed a two-year contract with Indian Super League club NorthEast United.

He retired in 2024 at the age of 36.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Romain Philippoteaux” is french association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Romain, Philippoteaux and French, 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—1988, 2019, 2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-03-02. For this dossier, Romain, Philippoteaux and French is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “french 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

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 Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16673130. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988, 2019, 2021 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Romain Philippoteaux” 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.