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Samuel Salter

Canadian soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ107451892
Source-derived summary

Samuel Salter (born September 8, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a forward for GAIS in the Allsvenskan.

Early life, family and education

Salter was raised in Laval, Quebec, and played in the Montreal Impact Academy from 2013 until 2016. Afterwards, he played with CS Étoiles de l'Est.

He attended high school at the ecole secondaire Antoine de Saint-Exupery where he was coached by Sandro Grande. He played for the Quebec provincial team, helping them to win a national bronze in 2017.

In 2018, he moved to France to join ASPTT Dijon in France's top U19 league. He also had a two-week trial with the U19 team RC Lens.

College career

After graduating high school, he attended Dawson College in Quebec, in 2017, where he was the CCAA - ACSC Men's Soccer All-Canadian for the 2017, the RSEQ Rookie of the Year, Player of the Year and led the conference in scoring with nine goals in nine games. He was named the school's Athlete of the Year.

In 2019, he decided to attend California State University, Northridge in the United States, playing for the men's soccer team.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Samuel Salter” as canadian soccer player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—2000, 2013, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-08-09. The account is most persuasive where Samuel, Salter and Canadian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian soccer player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107451892. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2013, 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Samuel Salter” 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.