If you find mistakes (of which there must be a lot)

Sorry to repeat, but there is still no record of the Argentina 5-0 Estonia game on the 5th June. It means that an absolutely vital player like Messi who scored 5 goals in this game has an incorrect record on this site. Am I missing something i.e. was this somehow not an official game?

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But he was already 20 years at the start of the 06/07 season?

Normally, "youth"-teams are under19-teams, and with 19 years players are promoted to senior teams. Of course, not everybody make it, and some countries/clubs have u23- or other kind of reserve-teams. Often, it's a mixture of both, a 19-year old gets promoted to the senior team, but sees only a handful of league appearances, mostly as entering sub gaining not much playing time, so he gets his playing time in the u23-reserve-team. But also youth players from the under19 or even under17-teams can get their chances in the senior team, as bench player in the 2nd Cup round, or late in the season when results aren't that important anymore for "mid-table" clubs, and so they may give their best 17, 16 or may even 15 year old youngsters a place on the bench and may even some playing minutes.

So coming back to the Jounaidi case. Your source says he was "احد ابرز اكتشافات الموسم" so he performed well enough to get picked for the Olympic team. That doesn't mean he didn't played at all the previous season 05/06. Maybe he just got a couple of league appearances or even bench nominations in 05/06? And maybe he got his first matchday nomination earlier, for example as 16 year old at the end of the 01/02 season.

I understand your point, that by googling now, you can just verify the 06/07 season at the earliest. But other users have made their research, too when editing his club career, based on sources we may not found now as they went offline. Maybe the sources were less reliable or mixing youth and senior teams. But it was research done. So, I wouldn't delete his early club career. Though I understand you that he may has less than 10 league appearances from 01/02 to 05/06.

The overall problem here, is that we don't have Lebanese league stats. What we actually need are proper league stats for the full squads, by which we can see all league stats of the entire squad, so we could see how many games a player really played. If he didn't appeared on such a full squad stat list, not even as unused bench player, I would agree to put him out in the season before he appears the first time.

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He just left Ansar today. This Kooora source (https://www.kooora.com/?n=1154382) says that he left the club after over 21 years, which means that he joined in 2001. However, it specifies that he climbed the ladder of the youth teams, and then reached the first team. I think someone might have seen that he "began" in 2001, though this is the date he joined their youth team. I think the most likely year is somewhere in the range of 2003-2005 (as a 17-19 year old), though without a source it's difficult to be sure.

I'm sure that you're aware but the COSAFA Cup has started!

https://uk.soccerway.com/inter…/2022/group-stage/r65004/

I'm not sure why this is but Karl Namnganda has 8 appearances and 1 goal listed as his top-line stats and this is also listed in his National Team Appearances section, but looking at the individual matches he actually has 9 appearances and 2 goals. Do you know why one of the matches has not been noticed by the other sections? Many thanks

https://www.national-football-…83731/Karl_Namnganda.html

Kenya vs. Senegal 2019-07-01

Senegal goalkeeper was Alfred Gomis, not Édouard Mendy.

Source: https://int.soccerway.com/matc…ns/kenya/senegal/3008097/

Player Jack Doherty: 1928 appearance was also for Northern Ireland (against France), not Irish Free State.

Source: https://nifootball.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-doherty.html

Iran vs. Lebanon, 2022-03-29

Milad Sarlak came on for Saeid Ezatolahi, not Milad Mohammadi.

Source: Transfermarkt, Soccerway, FIFA, Team Melli

Iran vs. Bahrain, 2011-10-11

Karim Ansarifard came on for Mojtaba Jabbari (and scored), not Ali Karimi.

Source: FIFA, Transfermarkt, WorldFootball, Team Melli

Why aren't all the matches of Lionel Messi listed on his profile? At the top his statistics are listed (165 caps, 91 goals), but only 133 matches are listed at the bottom of the page.

The same thing happens for the most recent match against the UAE for Enzo Fernández and Guido Rodríguez.

Argentina vs. Chile, 2021-06-03

Ángel Correa came on a as a substitute for Lucas Ocampos, not Joaquín Correa.

Source: Soccerway, Transfermarkt, FIFA, @Argentina

Belgium vs. Australia, 2014-09-04

Brad Smith debuted as a substitute for Tim Cahill, not Bailey Wright.

Source: Socceroos, Transfermarkt, WorldFootball, Soccerway

Hungary vs. Australia, 2018-06-09

Brad Jones came on as a substitute for Mathew Ryan, not Danny Vukovic.

Source: Socceroos, Transfermarkt, Soccerway, WorldFootball

Saudi Arabia vs. Japan, 2021-10-07

Missing substitution: Hidemasa Morita for Gaku Shibasaki in 73rd minute.

Source: Samurai Blue, Soccerway, Transfermarkt, FIFA

Ecuador vs. Brazil, 2016-09-01

Goal for Brazil in the 87' was ultimately awarded to Gabriel Jesus, not an own goal.

Source: FIFA, Transfermarkt, Soccerway, WorldFootball

South Africa vs. Brazil, 2014-03-05

Missing substitution: Dani Alves for Marcelo in 58'

Source: Soccerway, WorldFootball, Transfermarkt, Globo