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Tomislav Arčaba

soccer player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ7818937 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tomislav Arčaba (born 25 March 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper.

Club career

After playing with Wollongong Wolves until 2006, first in the NSL then since 2004 in the NSW Premier League, he signed in January 2007 with Irish club Sligo Rovers FC. After playing with Sligo Rovers in the 2007 League of Ireland he moved in January 2008 to Romanian club FC Gloria Buzău. After a season and a half he moved to another Liga I club, FC Internaţional Curtea de Argeş. In January 2011 he leaves Romania and signes with Serbian club FK BSK Borča where he played until summer 2012.

Arcaba signed a six-month deal with Newcastle Jets in January 2017.

In 2020, he returned to Australia and played for Rockdale City Suns FC for 2020 NPL NSW.

International career

He is a former Australian U-20 international.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2006, 2004, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-03-25. The account is most persuasive where Tomislav, Arčaba and soccer can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7818937. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2006, 2004 and 2007.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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 “Tomislav Arčaba” 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.