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Volodymyr Zhuk

Ukrainian footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2024
Entity authorityQ2036025 ↗
Source-derived summary

Volodymyr Zhuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Жук; born 30 May 1986) is a Ukrainian former football goalkeeper.

Career

Born in Zaporizhzhia, Zhuk played youth football for FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia and FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia. He made his Premier League debut with Metalurh Zaporizhzhia against FC Vorskla Poltava on 19 October 2008. He would make a total of 15 Premier League appearances for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia before signing with Ukrainian First League side FC Olimpik Donetsk in 2013.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Volodymyr Zhuk” is ukrainian footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Volodymyr, Zhuk and Ukrainian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2008, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-05-30. For this dossier, Volodymyr, Zhuk and Ukrainian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “ukrainian 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 Nov 3, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2036025. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2008 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Volodymyr Zhuk” 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.