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Valdas Kasparavičius

Lithuanian footballer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ1342053 ↗
Source-derived summary

Valdas Kasparavičius (born 17 January 1958 in Kapsukas) is a Lithuanian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Kasparavičius was elected Lithuanian Footballer of the Year in 1983.

Editorial summary

“Valdas Kasparavičius” enters the record as lithuanian footballer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Valdas, Kasparavičius and Lithuanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-01-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Valdas, Kasparavičius and Lithuanian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Valdas Kasparavičius” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Valdas, Kasparavičius and Lithuanian 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 Jan 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1342053. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 1983.

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.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Valdas Kasparavičius”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Valdas Kasparavičius primary sources, Valdas Kasparavičius archive and Valdas 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.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Valdas Kasparavičius” 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.