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Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele

Vietnamese and Nigerian association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ21642462 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele (born as Theophilus Esele on 29 April 1984) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, he played for V-league 1 clubs such as Hoa Phat Hanoi, Becamex Binh Duong, Ho Chi Minh City. He last played in Nam Dinh before retired in 2018.

Editorial summary

“Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele” enters the record as vietnamese and Nigerian association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nguyễn, Quốc and Thiện can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1984, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1984-04-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nguyễn, Quốc and Thiện.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nguyễn, Quốc and Thiện provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21642462. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2018.

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.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele primary sources, Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele archive and Nguyễn research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nguyễn Quốc Thiện Esele” 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.