Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bobby Houghton

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Bobby Houghton
This single-sentence sub-stub article reads "Bobby Houghton was a former coach of the Colorado Rapids in 1996", end of article. This individual turns up 800 hits on google. Are major league coaches inherently noteworthy? GRider\talk 00:02, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Wikipedians working on the articles of the major sports leagues, including Major League Soccer, have been creating articles for each and every head coach. Zzyzx11 02:15, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. He was a head coach of a major-league sports team, and furthermore it appears he was their first head coach. --Idont Havaname 02:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep If he was the first head cosch of the team, that's of general/ noteworthy interes EggplantWizard 03:29, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Bobby Houghton was head coach of the Chinese Football Association, and helped turn around the struggling team. He's also been known to implement effective soccer (football) programs for teams that are... ahem... soccer-challenged. I added some very basic information on his being coach of China's soccer team, based on the following article on FIFA's web site. Hopefully someone with more knowledge on this person can help out, or I'd be glad to continue adding information when I have more time. --Deathphoenix 06:14, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. Trilobite (Talk) 10:33, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nateji77 14:25, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I can see where the confusion lay, since it gave the impression that managing the Colorado Rapids was the highlight of his career. Far from it of course, he managed Malmo to a Champion's cup final in 1979, he managed the Chinese national football squad in the late 1990's. Average Earthman 14:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Spinboy 21:16, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable soccer coach at national and club levels Capitalistroadster 09:13, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for *.* reasons above. &mdash;RaD Man (talk) 11:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Longhair 10:03, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Duh. --Dryazan 15:08, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Don't be ridiculous - David Gerard 23:16, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. Carrp | Talk 06:37, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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