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Cosmos FC (Barbados)

Barbados football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2023
Entity authorityQ113614222 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cosmos FC is a Barbadian football club based in Speightstown, the second largest city in the country. As of 2019 it competes in the Barbados Division Two, the nation's third-tier league.

History

The club was re-established in 1990 by Basil Harewood. It has gone on to place well in national competitions and produce players for the Barbados youth and senior national teams. In 2013 the club was promoted to the Barbados Premier League before being relegated the following season. In 2018 the club competed in the Barbados Division Two. The following season Cosmos FC competed in the inaugural Capelli Super Cup. During the 2019 season, the club was promoted back to Division Two.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cosmos FC (Barbados)” is barbados football club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cosmos, Barbados and football, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 1990, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cosmos, Barbados and football is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “barbados football club” 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

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q113614222. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019, 1990, 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cosmos FC (Barbados)” 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.