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Selvin Zelaya

Salvadorian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7448874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luis Selvin Zelaya Bran (born 1 March 1979 in Usulután, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran professional football player, who currently plays for Aspirante in the Salvadoran second division.

Club career

Zelaya has played professionally in the Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador for Municipal Limeño, Atlético Balboa and joined Salvadoran top team Águila in 2006. He returned to Balboa 2 years later.

International career

Zelaya made his debut for El Salvador in a September 2006 friendly match against Honduras, coming on as a second half substitute for Marvin González. The game proved to be his one and only international match.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Selvin Zelaya” as salvadorian footballer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-03-01. The account is most persuasive where Selvin, Zelaya and Salvadorian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as salvadorian footballer. 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 May 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7448874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2006.

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

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Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Selvin Zelaya” 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.