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Vanessa Wenger

Liechtensteiner footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ140087645 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vanessa Wenger (born 19 April 2009) is a Liechtensteiner footballer who plays as a defender for the Swiss Women's Super League club Thun and the Liechtenstein national football team.

Career

In 2026, Wenger joined Thun from St. Gallen.

She made her professional debut and scored her first goal on 7 February 2026 against Luzern.

Wenger's senior international debut came in a 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification match against Estonia women's national football team on 14 April 2026.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vanessa Wenger” is liechtensteiner footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vanessa, Wenger and Liechtensteiner, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2026, 2027—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-04-19. For this dossier, Vanessa, Wenger and Liechtensteiner is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “liechtensteiner footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Jun 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140087645. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2026 and 2027.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Vanessa Wenger” 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.