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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 03:07, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Akcelrod[edit]

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Players are deemed notable if they meet any of the criteria below:

1. Have played for a fully professional club at a national level of the league structure. This must be supported by evidence from a reliable source on a club by club basis for teams playing in leagues that are not recognised as being fully professional. 2. Have played in a competitive fixture between two fully professional clubs in a domestic, Continental or Intercontinental club competition. 3. Have played FIFA recognised senior international football or football at the Olympic games. 4. Pre-professional (amateur era) footballers to have played at the national level of league football are considered notable (no other level of amateur football confers notability).

This is not Akcelrod's case. 1. There is no evidence he played for the professionnal clubs mentionned (Cwmbran, Paris, Tigre). He played for the Paris Saint Germain team, but at an amateur level (5th team). 2. He played a match as a substitute for Swindon Town two years ago, but it was a trial, at a domestic level. 3. No 4. He played as an amateur in Paris, but not with the first team.

I found one relevant fact showing that Akcelrod has played in a team[1]. In 2005, he played for the Belgian club of Givry. This is not mentionned in his WP page, the club played in Provinciale 1, which is the 5th level in Belgium.

On his mybestplay page[2], he says he scored 7 goals in 14 games played with Tigre (Argentinian Premier League) in the 2008-2009 season. The FIFA does not mention his name in the results[3]

To sum up, this WP page says Akcelrod plays for : - Cwmbran (Welsh Premier League) : no source, no picture.

- Paris Saint-Germain (French L1) : no match played with the first team.

- Tigre (Argentinian Premier League) : no source, no picture.

- Swindon, Bournemouth, Norwich (League One): That's true, he played some matches (it is not difficult to find videos posted by Akcelrod himself) but as a trialist.

- CSKA Sofia : He made a trial at sofia, but the club discovered that that Akcelrod has lied about his past[4][5] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.206.61.231 (talk) 14:29, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The french article has been deleted[6]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.206.61.231 (talk) 08:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:52, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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• Delete - There is absolutely no evidence that he passes Wp:ATHLETE. DitzyNizzy (aka Jess)|(talk to me)|(What I've done) 19:55, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:35, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - no evidence he has played professionally. He definitely did play as a triallist for various English professional clubs, but the matches concerned were non-competitive pre-season warm-up games. The Welsh Premier League is not professional, so that can be ignored. That only leaves potentially Tigre, PSG and CSKA, and I can find no evidence that he played a first team game for any of those clubs -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 15:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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