Posts by SiebenW

  • Missing Data

    #13 of Anguilla was Nick Loblack, NOT Jalen Smeins.


    Otherwise, real good job. I am so in love with the work of you and Mikael J. You both making this site great. And I hope I don't come too negative when correcting stuff, same for other users sharing their info here and in messages, and of course also regarding the webmaster. So you all don't take critics too personally, I really love the way you are all contributing and sharing our hobby here.

  • Missing Data

    Mervin Lewis had #15 as usual. I hope it doesn't get too messy now correcting the corrections. Of course, having a HD team pic makes everything quite easy. Anyway, many thanks to you two guys providing us with such hard-to-get matches and thanks to Benjamin for putting this stuff online.

  • Missing Data

    A minor one, just for the users interested in shirt numbers. The goalkeeper had number 12 (NOT 22).

  • Cape Verde vs Senegal 1982

    1982 Cape Verde vs Senegal

    in the aftermatch of the 1982 Amílcar Cabral Cup (hosted by Cape Verde), the 4th placed Cape Verdian team played vice-champion Senegal in a friendly hosted in Mindelo. While the Cape Verdian Amílcar Cabral Cup matches were played in Praia. It was an opportunity to play in Mindelo and to play another international match, as Senegal was still in the country. See the Cape Verdian team pic attached or on facebook.

    What pisses me a bit is that I have created that friendly two years ago, and that entry seems to have disappeared and the link doesn't work anymore. So, I created it once more. I don't know if it may had been deleted by mistake (hint, everybody working on the database, don't delete matches), or if it was a technical problem. Anyway, I newly created this match and hopefully it stays online now as it is quite difficult to find such international matches.

  • Guinea Bissau players update

    BrunoGensFMPT Great stuff, which you found about Guinea-Bissau. The last days I did review the Guinea-Bissau database in order to find some further infos, to extend club careers and to get some players sorted. There are two cases, I can't clear, so I want to mention them here. Maybe you or any reader know better:

    1.) SOLVED
    Arlindo Tomé 'Pau'
    ZeroZero page (ZZ)
    I think he could have played for the national team in 1994.
    NFT hasd two player entries that year:
    Arlindo Tomé merged into a single one
    played against Tunisia & Mauritania
    Pau deleted
    played against Senegal, and did scored vs Tunisia while not being on the starting line-up and not being the probably reported substitution. So, NFT conclude he must have been a 2nd entering sub, without know the outgoing player.
    My conclussion here, would be that these two entries are a single player Arlindo Tomé 'Pau'. That brings me to the ZZ page of a (2nd) Arlindo Tomé 'Pau' going by the same name and same nickname. Hence this ZZ guy is born 1982-12-27, so he would have been 11 years old when playing for the national team, which makes it nearly impossible that he is the same guy. But well, since we all know that african players "losing years" when transfering to Portugal in the 2000s, it may has happened in the pre-Internet-time as well. In order to play for Beneditense's youth side when going to Portugal in 1997 he may got a "new" birthdate.
    So, two questions:
    1.1) Do you agree that Arlindo Tomé and Pau are the same player? CONCLUSSION: YES
    1.2) Do you agree that this player is the same player who went to Portugal (Beneditense)? CONCLUSSION: YES

    2.)
    A. Cassamá
    He scored fur Guinea-Bissau during the 1980 Amílcar Cabral Cup. Is there any chance to get to know his full name? To me it is quite difficult to find infos about Guinea-Bissau from the 80s. ZZ has one player entry by Alberto Queba Cassamá. Also he would be very (or too) young by only 15 years, but neither here we don't know if he got his true birthdate listed when transfering to Portugal. On the other side the scorer could be any other A. Cassamá.

  • 2025-03-19 Kazakhstan vs CURAÇAO

    As we have been missing Curaçao's subs from

    2025-03-19 Kazakhstan vs Curaçao

    We have the list of subs from their Federastion's Insta:


    I took a look at the pics to spot some subs I set:

    #17 Brandley Kuwas

    About him I am most sure wearing his usual #17.

    #19 Rangelo Janga

    Though not his usual #9, it looks like him.

    #2 Tyrique Mercera

    The side shot makes it a bit more difficult to judge, but by height, hair cut (braids) and the socks he usually wears at a low height, I see him, too.


    If anybody has found further infos feel free to share here.

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

    Good spot about the double created player. I went through the Congo pages in march 2024 to spot such double created players, but obviously during the last 12 months there are newly created duplicates.

    Note that Congo's CHAN matches were awarded to their opponent. So, in the events you see Congolese scorers. Their goals will still be counted to their individual player statistics as the match was played in fact, but the overall team result is shown by the awarded result.

  • The US & Canada lower leagues updates

    Quote from Demetrius

    I will stop updating you starting from now. You don't read the message correctly. Good luck!

    I experienced the same, feeling that 10% of what I reported in my messages to NFT (national-football-teams.com) was either left out completely or was given incorrectly. That was very annoying in the beginning, but by the time I started to understand the reasons behind which is basically the missing menpower as this site is technically run by Benjamin alone. So besides his 4 or 5 main tasks, checking the forum just comes at 6th place or something like that, while the forum could actually needed a forum moderator having the moderation as his first task (similiar to the feedback send by email). So, we have to understand that Benjamin can't go completely into details regarding all the forums posts and has several mistakes when trying to put online a huge data amount in short time.
    Demetrius I love especially your messages. Your forums post are well structured, in particular by setting own threads per theme and the info is quite clear. Personally, I love having the player's lower league club affiliations as these are the ones which are generally missed here on NFT.

    My personal conclussion had been, that I just started to re-read the cases I reported after Benjamin has processed with my reported cases, and then reporting the 10% forgotten/wrong edited cases again, trying to be more clear on the cases I may wasn't clear before and forgiving the mistaken cases. We all do mistakes and the more we do the more mistakes happen, and Benjamin does a lot.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Benjamin

    Don't know about this one at all, maybe some more opinions. Again, it comes down to what is important at the moment. I would probably make it unofficial matches against a romanian B team, but that would probably mean deleting romanian players. I don't think I care enough at the moment, and I will want to wait with deciding after we added the next batch of internationals. But please do offer your opinions.

    Please, DON'T DELETE the Romanian team of 1991.

    The two friendlies Brazil v Romania in 1995 and 1991 are NOT really comparable. In the 1991 match except one starter and one entering substitute all Romanian players have played for the national team before or after that Brazil match and severel of them with real good careers of 50, 60, 90+ caps. So you can consider this as a full Romanian national team. The 1995 case is much different. In the starting line-up we have 8 players who never played in any other match for Romania. The remaining 3 starters have collected 1, 1 and 3 caps in their entire careers.

    So the 1991 friendly is clearly one or two steps above the 1995 friendly in terms of an official national team caracter.

    Quote from Ro83rto

    Missing match: Brazil v Romania 1995-09-27

    This is comparable to the Brazil v Romania 1991-04-07 match. It's a question of whether you keep both, remove both or have Romania down as a 'B' team and just remove their lineup in both, but keep Brazil's.


    Again, something general. Personally, I don't want to have A v B-team matches in the data base. Either it was a weakened national team which was not (fully) official, so we can set these matches as non-FIFA, or it wasn't a national team at all. Having the line-ups, users can judge by theirselves how much inofficial these non-FIFA games were.

    I think the 1995 could make it to the database as it still contained top players from that country (Romania). But considering the amount of uncapped players (in official matches), it has a strong tendecy towards a B-team. Comparing to the B-teams/Olympic teams of Romanian history this may would open the door for creating many more matches. I wouldn't object if something working in the database would put the 1995 Brazil v Romania (non-FIFA) match online, but understand that for Benjamin it's better to concentrate on the clear cases first.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Benjamin

    How strange, the Uganda vs Burundi games are both in the backend and frontend, but don't appear here: https://www.national-football-teams.com/matches/tourna…ampionship.html


    That means I have to get on Florian's nerves again.

    They don't appear in the linked CHAN 2nd qualifier round because this round is set as home and away fixture. That means there will be only 1 home game and 1 away game shown. As Uganda has had two home-games, just the first game is shown.

  • Missing Data

    mikaelj GREAT JOB on the CHAN december matches. Just some flaws. You have two players mixed. Donald Guesset was #13, he played the first leg only. #6 was Isaac Souango who started the 2nd match, see team pics. Also in the 2nd leg #17 was a starter, while #2 was on the bench like you can see in this video when the players walked off the field for half time break.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Benjamin

    Still not sure about the Mapinduzi Cup. The matches don't seem to be full internationals for sure.

    Technically you are right, these would be non-FIFA matches.

    ZANZIBAR: full national team (but not a FIFA member)
    KENYA: labelled as full national team, though also them are effected by the dates outside the FIFA matchday window and effectively it was also them a CHAN team preparing for hosting the finals
    BURKINA FASO: here, also labelled correctly as CHAN team, once the CHAN data from december 2024 is on NFT, there shouldn't be too many extra-players.
    TANZANIA: Kilimanjaro Stars (mainland team), though probably they additionally were withouth their Yanga players, too because of the CAF Champions League matches at the same time

    I see during the last years, NFT hasn't had strict guidelines how to handle CHAN preparations matches. It seems in the first edition since FIFA approvement, some preparations matches made it into the database, while in recent years it became a strict rule not to include local selection national teams outside the proper CHAN competition. There may have been the exception when one CHAN team played a full national team. Maybe we could consider something similiar here. Especially as Zanzibar doesn't have many matches since the CECAFA Cup stopped being played by annually. So, my suggestion would be to include the Mapinduzi Cup matches as non-FIFA friendlies.

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

    Quote from Odd Soda

    In respect to Shahajuddin Tipu's DOB, you can see him celebrating his birthday on 16 January instead of 1 January in this Facebook post comment. So, my suggestion would be to set his DOB to 16 January 1974 rather than 1 January.

    Yes, in general I completely doubt this 1-1-birthdates. "1-1" has just become a place holder when the birthdate hasn't been known. In this case, I would have kept 13-8 from the previous (wrong) birthdate we had, so just changing his year of birth to get his age right. Thanks to your great research we get the correct birthday.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Odd Soda

    Mehedi Hasan Ujjal
    Club career:
    Badda Jagorani 1999-02
    Abahani Ltd Dhaka 2003-11
    Dhaka Mohammedan 2011-12 (retired)

    This first one is giving me a big head. Odd Soda you are doing great input, so please don't feel bothered because of me asking you back on this case.
    So, when he retired after 11/12 it was a namesake playing 2 games for Abahani Chittagong in 2019 and 3 games for Muktijoddha Sangsad in 2020? There are lots of namesakes cases in Bangladesh so that is probably more likely than you having a source from before 2019 mentioning his retirement and he came back out of retirement afterwards getting some few spare time in 2019 and/or 2020, when he actually had a good age or at least an age to joing technical staff getting some sub appearances.

    More important, is your source comprehensive? Or could it be they missed a club, refering to Mohammedan Jhenaidah for which he was thought to have played after Badda Jagorani and before Abahani scoring 4 goals in the 2003 season? Or was this another namesake? As he is the only recorded national player we have for Mohammedan Jhenaidah that would mean that club didn't had any national team player at all?

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Odd Soda

    Also please remove the older pictures since they are blurry

    Also something general here.

    First, Odd Soda your pictures are absolutely top. I love them and I love all your input about Bangladesh football, you are filling Bangladesh history with life giving fans worldwide an unique opportunity to know about Bangladesh's football history.

    To the pictures, as you all have seen there is also the possibility to mantain a 2nd (or 3rd) pic. So we may can have two showing different aspects. In the two mentioned cases I just delete the previous pic because they were clearly blurry like Odd Soda mentioned. I have uploaded these when not finding anything better, so at that time I prefered these blurry shots over having nothing at all. So please, if you have everything better feel free to share, that message of Odd Soda was the best example.
    In general, I am searching for full frontal head shots, as these are giving the best view to compare players and re-identify them. Also size is a matter, as face is clearly seen better when the pic comes as a head shot and not as a full action shot. As a personal note, I like it when also the club or FA logo of the jersey is seen on the picture as well because this way we have a little extra info in the pic, though that lowers a bit the face's size.

    You may have noted that every upload requires a user name, see "Kindly provided by ...". When users don't use the webpage upload themselves and sending us the pictures, and it's me to upload them, and I mostly do an extra cut, highlighting a bit more the player's face and cutting background before uploading them. By the upload there will in general appear my user name as I do it from my account. So, please don't feel bothered. There is a way to edit the uploader name "Kindly provided by ..." afterwards, so if you feel bothered, just send me a note, than I will do this extra step.

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

    Quote from mrfil79

    Missed this one :)

    Laken Limbu was born in Singapore.

    He was at Jhapa FC in 2021 before he joined Three Star Club later in 2021.

    Just refering at the birthplace part, as the reminder was good because club had to be added aswell. So, just something general.

    There is city of birth and there is country of birth. The country of birth is just visible for viewers when also the city of birth is given. If no city is given, the country remains invisible. Still good to have the country in the system, but you won't see it. I have added Laken Limbu's city of birth, so you can see both ;)
    But for users in general, if you just name the country of birth don't wonder that you can't see it on the players' pages at the moment by the current software.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from bakerrp

    Jordan v Palestine 2000

    It was a team of Palestinian players from the Syrian League. They were a late replacement after the Romanian Olympic team withdrew from the tournament. I don't have the names for the Palestine team but my feeling is that this almost certainly isn't a full international.

    Ro83rto
    When the Jordan FA website went online again, I went through it in search to add missing infos. I also added some missing games, but opted against the 2000 match because of what Baker also texted here. To me it was more a local League selection choosing players of Palestine origine playing in one certain area (outside Palestine), rather than an actual Palestine national team.

    What I did take a look at Jordan FA website were also the matches "missing" and "partially missing" on NFT. A general problem on NFT is that substitutions can be always missed, even when the match is set completely "playe". Especially for friendlies and for games back in the farer past.
    So, chances can be high that you find additional subs.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from jost69

    I found the positions mentioned in several match reports specially the New Strait Times on Google news archives website. I think for now it would be best to state Fida Ur Rehman, Abdul Majeed and Zahir Ahmed as defensive midfielders, and Zulfiqar Ahmed and Abdul Wahid as attacking midfielders.

    Also had a look at old players here and Younus Rana played as half-back (midfielder) instead of defender. Younus Changezi as left-winger, not left-back.

    Tariq Lutfi player profile can be removed as he never played at international level. Additionally the years 1957, 1966, 1971, and 1972 can be removed for Pakistan as the team didn't play a single international match at that time.
    I have noticed there is a match against Iran listed in 1966 which also appears in other sources with the 9-1 result and held on 12 March, but I think its a duplicate typo for the same match on 12 March 1969 at the 1969 Friendship Cup.

    Three points.

    1.)
    We don't have "half-back" as a position in the system. But we have "centre half" which should match for Younus Rana.

    2.)
    As it is a bit of work creating a player profile, I would generally prefer to wait until we have done the year in doubt. In the current case it will take some time until reaching 1974. Maybe a forgotten match will pop up until then, which we may have been considering un-official or weren't aware of it at all. I suspect by your excellent work on the Pakistani national team, I see these chances are very slim, but still I would just leave a note here that Tariq Lutfi player profile will be deleted when 1974 match data will be added.

    3.) DONE
    Iran seems to be one of the countries NFT had tried to applicate some automatic match list. Such match lists had a lot of mixed games, like non-national team opponents or double-created entries. I would prefer to delete 1966-03-12 Iran vs Pakistan right now. So, I want to suggest to the regular admins to delete this match, so the 1966 Pakistan page will disappear. edit: done

  • Missing Data

    Many thanks, another great work.

    I hope you don't feel bothered when I mention the "midfielder" topic again. "midfielder" is often a place holder when the actual position isn't known, meaning just midfielder=outfielded player. While defender ot striker indicates either a defensive or offensive role. So personally, I have a problem setting players back to "midfielder", would be better to set with the detailed position (right midfield, left midfield, attacking midfield, defensive midfield). Someone might have the idea we could conclude something here, like when having a striker listed as midfielder, we just change to attacking midfielder (or defensive midfielder when we had a defender). But I don't want to make too many conclussions mixing things up.