Posts by SiebenW

  • Missing Data

    Quote from mikaelj

    Thought it looked like him but then who is #16 Isa ?

    #16 Sayed Redha Isa

    There is always confussion between these two.

    I better leave the (full) name legends here, too:

    اللاعبون من اليمين إلى اليسار في الصف الخلفي: وليد الحيام والسيد محمود الموسوي وسيد رضا عيسى وحسين عبدالكريم وجاسم الشيخ وعمر سالم

    اللاعبون من اليمين إلى اليسار في الصف الأمامي: عمر صابر وإبراهيم الخطال وحسين العكر وهاشم سيد عيسى وهزاع علي

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Benjamin

    Well, I want less games on the page. Main reason: People then come along and want us to add more and more games. "Oh, you have added this strange game, now you have to add these five strange games, and if you don't you are doing a very bad job, and I will pester you with emails forever."


    This is what happens, and I don't have the time for it. So I won't be adding any strange matches anymore. If someone else wants to add them, I think I can live with that, but it does mean more work for me, because I have to answer all the mails and so on.


    I want to concentrate on the stuff that is really important. And I won't do anything more, because if I do, the really important stuff suffers, as we have seen more and more during the last two years. The only way forward for seems to be to ignore more and more stuff that comes in. Because I just don't have more time.

    That's a good statement, and we can all understand and live with it. You may can add this to the FAQs. Or just save it, to copy-/paste it to answer emails.
    My point just was to please NOT delete matches. Nobody would have complained if the Qatar vs Lebanon match would have been left out. But you decided to include it, and since then I started to track the players appearing in this match. But also in general, I never want to delete any matches (we have the non-FIFA status for them), as by deleting lots of efforts put into these matches, the players, their clubs, etc. would be all gone. On the other side, the argument can also used against, like you have deleted this match, so you now have to delete these 5 matches as well. So, we just have to live with it, that there never have been consistency on the question which games to include and which not.

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

    Quote from majope

    In Nigeria vs. DR Congo 2025-11-16, Edo Kayembe should be instead of Steve Kapuadi.

    Yes, you are right. Though as to FIFA also happen mistakes from time to time, I prefer more local sources, like the FECOFA fb post mentioning also Edo Kayembe as entering player. To clear all doubts, we can take a look at the photo shot of the onfielded player standing near the kick-off cirle and starting to celebrate after the final shot, we see #5 Edo Kayembe.

    So, I corrected the match report.

  • Missing Data

    Sorry, I can't surely identifiy the missing player. I had the anthem line-up pic, and did save it. Maybe by a future deeper Myanmar check this pic will help. Or after the next Asian Cup qualifiers we can see clearer.

  • Missing Data

    Quote from Benjamin

    Ah, great. That means that we will have some players without an international after we have deleted this one.

    Can't we just leave this match as non-FIFA match? As I wrote previously, we have a few matches played 70 or 80 minutes and some matches abandonned between 60' and 90'. It really annoys deleting matches after people have invested work into them. And it would really bother me having these players now without international cap.

    Generally, I think the NFT page has some kind of more value by listing such matches omitted by other pages. Sadly, I see less and less of such games nowadays. So, can't we just be happy that somehow did the work uploadid the Qatari vs Lebanon friendly, having it set to non-FIFA, not affecting the official FIFA caps number.
    Personally, I'd like to have even more matches like the 2025 Mapinduzi Cup in Zanzibar or the Eritrea vs Niger friendlies. Deleting now the matches we already have would be even worse and discouraging for the people working on the database.

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

    Quote from Nehme1499

    I think there's a difference between a football match not following standard regulations (11v11, 2x45' halves), and a football match that does but just happens to not have been played during FIFA days (for example). Anyway, it's your opinion and I respect it. But I feel that not all "unofficial" games are the same.

    Yes, you are right here. Unfortunately by the current system, we don't have any sub categories for non-FIFA friendlies, which would be tier2 and tier3 friendlies. We just can list full FIFA matches, or non-FIFA matches.

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

    Quote from Nehme1499

    Qatar 0-1 Lebanon (2025) should not even be considered a non-FIFA match, as it lasted only 70 minutes (two 35-minute halves).

    During the course of world football history up to date, there are several non-FIFA matched played just 70 or 80 minutes. A lot of people did their efforts to these matches, so in my opinion all these matches should stay online. But online as "non-FIFA". That's why I switched the game from FIFA to non-FIFA. Especially for such cases we have the non-FIFA category. So for everybody feeling upset by such matches, always have in mind it's non-FIFA, and you can ignore the non-FIFA matches and caps completely. Just see the non-FIFA matches as some informal extra info which doesn't have to be considered seriously, and it doesn't affect the (full) FIFA caps list anyway.

  • Turks and Caicos at the 2025 Outrigger Challenge Cup

    Benjamin : I was quite surprised to see the USVI vs TCI match with line-ups including a graphical tactical scheme. What was the source here? There are 3 major question marks, from which one is obviously wrong (and already corrected).

    First of all, I haven't found the team pic from that match, just from the match vs Marshall Islands, see attached, and a do-able anthemn lining up, see also attached. All I got from the USVI match is a blurry screenshot, see also attached. But you can clearly see that Peterson St. Fleurant was NOT the starting keeper. He was not even in the squad. See pre-selection list published by MISF and final squad list by TCIFA. So, I corrected Peterson St. Fleurant to Sebastian Turbyfield.
    But there remain two more players in doubt:

    1.) Kristen Howell
    I can't see him on either squad list.

    2.) Billy Forbes
    he was just on the pre-list of the MISF, but not on the final list of the TCIFA. There is even a rumour going on that he retired from international football.

    So, it really comes strange to me, to see these two in the starting line-up vs USVI. On the blurry screenshot, I hardly can recognize players. Comparing the clearer picture anthemn line-up vs Ozark United U19, my educated guess would be based on the bandages that the player with the bandage around lower forearm and hand is again Kendly Telusma and the other one with armband at lower forearm is Wepsdel Saintilus.

    CONCLUSSION: I would replace Kristen Howell and Billy Forbes with Kendly Telusma and Wepsdel Saintilus.

    But before, I will wait for your feedback:
    Benjamin regarding souce
    bakerrp  mikaelj (and other experts reading here), you may have further info' on these matchreports.

    Also I can recommend MISF youtube channel, showing full match tubes, though filmed by a basic camara, so we don't have any close-up zooms.

    Maybe there is an outside chance MISF will publish full match reports. If nothing turns out, I will replace Howell and Forbes by Telusma and Saintilus.

  • South Sudanese players updates

    Quote from Benjamin

    He seems to have stayed on the bench. We only add players once they have actually played a game.

    No, he was a starter. There seems to had been a confussion between Emmanuel Kenyi and Emmanuel Jowang. Corrected and adjusted now, including photo upload. Like I mentioned in a previous post, the photos I upload by my user account have generally my user name, so if anyone bothers, leave me a short note, so I can change it.

  • 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.