Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marshall Islands national football team


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 08:05, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Marshall Islands national football team

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This team has never competed at any level. The address given for their FA on the rsssf link is with their National Olympic Committee. The website for their Olympic committee has a list of federations and that isn't one of them. Olympic committe siteStu.W UK (talk) 17:40, 17 March 2009 (UTC) I am also nominating the following page:
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. Stu.W UK (talk) 17:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

as there is also no evidence for this existence of this team. The rsssf weblink supplied offers a link to the tokelau FA that results in a blank page. The fedefutbol site, which is run by one person, supplies an address C/O Office for Tokelau Affairs in Samoa which seems rather unconvincing. Regardless, both these pages are lacking any evidence that these teams have ever played Stu.W UK (talk) 18:57, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete both Looks like a different type of fantasy football at work here. The idea of a "Tokelau national football team" is moronic, given that Tokelau has less than 1,500 people. A Marshall Islands team appears to be wishful thinking, with no evidence that there is one-- with a per capita income of $2,900 a year, I imagine that they have higher priorities than a national sports team. Mandsford (talk) 19:10, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Just thought I would point out that Burundi has a national soccer/"football" team even though they have a per capita income of just $371 per year.  TJ   Spyke   21:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete both neither country is affiliated to FIFA. I would say that the Marshall Islands sent four athletes to the Olympic Games in Beijing, and there are several countries with lower GDP per head with national football teams. Parslad (talk) 21:53, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
 * You don't have to be associated with FIFA to have a national football team. It just makes it harder, not impossible, to play international games. The lack of proof there is one is more convincing. - Mgm|(talk) 10:23, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete both per nom. GiantSnowman 10:57, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete both, no evidence either actually exists -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 10:02, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


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