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Óscar González (Chilean footballer)

Chilean association football player (1894-1959)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ19830011 ↗
Source-derived summary

Óscar del Tránsito González Figueroa (24 August 1894 – 10 June 1959), known as Colo-Colo González, was a Chilean footballer who played as a midfielder.

International career

González made twelve appearances for Chile, playing at three South American Championships: 1919, 1922 and 1926.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Óscar González (Chilean footballer)” as chilean association football player (1894-1959). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Óscar, González and Chilean.

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—1894, 1959, 1919, 1922—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1894-08-24. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Óscar, González and Chilean providing the first useful test.
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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 Jun 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19830011. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1894, 1959, 1919 and 1922.

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This entry incorporates text from “Óscar González (Chilean footballer)” 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.