Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gozo national football team


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The result was   delete. Nja 247 06:21, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Gozo national football team

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Not verifiable. On the Gozo FA website, there is no mention of a national team under history. In fact, the 'national team' section of the site is about the Maltese national team! Stu.W UK (talk) 00:56, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 01:21, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per evidence by nominator. --Angelo (talk) 08:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, non-notable team. GiantSnowman 11:39, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:V and WP:N. John Sloan @ 13:42, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - Gozo's national side is going to get more an more coverage, now it is agreed that Gozo will not only host the 2010 VIVA World Cup but have a very favourable draw for the 2009 cup in Padania. People find these stats fascinating, and enjoy following the results of fledgling barely recognised teams. Of course they're non-notable: that's why these cups etc have been created for them especially.Tris2000 (talk) 16:37, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - per nom. Hubschrauber729 (talk) 20:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - if they do indeed "get more an more coverage" then recreate when they do, although I don't actually think this is very likely as I would estimate that 99% of football fans and the media don't care in the slightest about the VIVA World Cup. Keeping an article based on the presumption that the subject will start to gain coverage in the future violates WP:CRYSTAL big-time -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 09:09, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep - there's clearly evidences that the team exists, you can see for the amount of news concerning the VIVA World Cup 2010 that will be organized by them  . Also they will play in one month in the VIVA World Cup 2009. Tell that Gozo FA doesn't mention their team is a joke because it's clearly news about them in their website. --Calapez (talk) 14:50, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - Those articles are all about the VIVA World Cup. None of the articles is about the team. They all refer in passing to a possible Gozo 'representative team'. None of the articles mentions the team competing in 2009. Still not notable. Stu.W UK (talk) 15:27, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
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