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Xico Andebol

Portuguese handball team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ18129392
Source-derived summary

The Xico Andebol is a Portuguese handball team based in Guimarães, which plays in the top tier domestic league, the Andebol 1. It is the successor of Desportivo Francisco Holanda.

In their first season they won the Portuguese Handball Cup.

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The public source identifies “Xico Andebol” as portuguese handball team. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Xico, Andebol and Portuguese.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 40-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Xico, Andebol and Portuguese providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18129392. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Xico Andebol” 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.