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Tosin Dosunmu

footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ2388878 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tosin Dosunmu(born 15 July 1980) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Club career

Dosunmu played for AS Nancy, KV Mechelen, K.V.C. Westerlo and Austria Wien. In the 2005–06 season, while he played for Beerschot, Dosunmu became top scorer in the Belgian First Division with 18 goals. His nickname is Cheadle due to his resemblance to the actor Don Cheadle.

International career

Dosunmu represented the Nigeria national team twice internationally.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Tosin Dosunmu” as footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tosin, Dosunmu and footballer.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-07-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tosin, Dosunmu and footballer providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Tosin Dosunmu”, the useful work is to connect “footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2388878. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 2005.

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 “Tosin Dosunmu” 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.