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Stefan Aladzhov

Bulgarian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ2444102 ↗
Source-derived summary

Stefan Atanasov Aladzhov (Bulgarian: Стефан Атанасов Аладжов, born 18 October 1947) is a former Bulgarian football defender. In his career, he played mostly for Levski Sofia.

In 1970 Aladzhov was named Bulgarian Footballer of the Year. For the Bulgaria national football team he played in two editions of the FIFA World Cup, in 1970 and in 1974.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Stefan Aladzhov” as bulgarian footballer. 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—1947, 1970, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-10-18. The account is most persuasive where Stefan, Aladzhov and Bulgarian 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 bulgarian 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 Dec 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2444102. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947, 1970 and 1974.

Critical limits

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

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This entry incorporates text from “Stefan Aladzhov” 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.