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Veaceslav Semionov

association football player and manager (1956–2020)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ4415807 ↗
Source-derived summary

Veaceslav Semionov (16 March 1956 – 13 October 2020) was a Moldovan professional football manager and former footballer. He was born in Bender.

For four spells he was the head coach of Moldavian football club FC Dacia Chişinău.

Editorial summary

“Veaceslav Semionov” enters the record as association football player and manager (1956–2020). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Veaceslav, Semionov and association 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—1956, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-03-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Veaceslav, Semionov and association.
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Why this record matters

“Veaceslav Semionov” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Veaceslav, Semionov and association 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 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4415807. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Veaceslav Semionov” 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.