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Alejandro Mello

Uruguayan footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2493940 ↗
Source-derived summary

Álvaro Alejandro Melo Silvera (born May 13, 1979) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward. He has played for Uruguayan clubs Nacional, River Plate, Tacuarembó, Rentistas, Cerro, Danubio, El Tanque Sisley, Villa Teresa and Deportivo Maldonado, in China for Shanghai Shenhua, for Argentine club Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, for Colombian club Bucaramanga, for Ukrainian club FC Chornomorets Odesa and for Sportivo Luqueño of Paraguay.

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The public source identifies “Alejandro Mello” as uruguayan footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alejandro, Mello and Uruguayan.

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—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-05-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alejandro, Mello and Uruguayan providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2493940. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alejandro Mello” 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.